Editors

About the Editor

Professor Rajkumar Roy is Dean in the School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering (MCSE) at City University, UK. He is known for his qualitative cost modelling, requirements management and design optimisation research. He has been the Principal Investigator of three Product-Service System (PSS) projects (IMRC and EPSRC funded) in the areas of whole life cost and service knowledge capture. He was also the Principal Investigator of an IMRC funded Network of Excellence in Affordability Engineering. BAE Systems is a major sponsor of his research along with Airbus, Rolls Royce, MoD, BOC Edwards, Nissan and Ford Motor Company. He leads the new initiative on Competitive Creative Design at Cranfield and collaboration with University of the Arts London, and has also developed an innovative PSS Futures Lab at Cranfield.

Professor Roy has a PhD in design optimisation using soft computing techniques. Before that he completed formal postgraduate education on intelligent systems and production engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer and the Vice President and Fellow of the Association of Cost Engineers (AcostE), a member of IEEE, IED and the Institution of Engineers (India). He is also a Fellow of CIRP.