Behnam Malakooti[1] is professor of systems engineering of department of electrical engineering and computer science at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Ohio, US.
He is a pioneer researcher in risk, operations management, manufacturing systems,[2] multiple criteria optimization.
He developed artificial neural networks for predicting decision-making behavior for out-of-sample data.
[3] He also pioneered the theory of multiple-objective optimization for solving decision making,[4] operations and manufacturing systems, machinability of materials,[5] artificial neural networks,[3] facility layout,[6][7] and group technology and clustering.
[8] Malakooti has received several awards, including