TRIZCON2023-Abstracts

"Was Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamato a TRIZ practitioner?"

Abstract:

Viesturs Tamužs, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Three main tasks of money are the transfer of value in time, transfer of value in space, and accounting of value. Neither modern money nor any previous monetary system has been able to successfully fulfill these three functions over a lengthy period. The main reason for that is inflation and the true cause of it - the greed of those who have the power to make money emissions. However, a powerful central institution is necessary to ensure public trust in money. In his efforts to create a fundamentally new monetary system, the creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamato has faced a typical TRIZ conflict: a central authority is necessary for the monetary system, and at the same time centralization of the system is undesirable.

So far, efforts to improve the functioning of the monetary system have been in a search for new money managers that would be more honest and smarter than the previous ones, however, these attempts always have ended in failure due to the greed of the system administrators. Here again, we can see the contradiction: human intelligence is needed for the monetary system, while humans are undesirable in this system because they are driven by greed.

Like a TRIZ practitioner, Satoshi Nakamato has used two conflict resolution mechanisms. He has solved the contradiction of the monetary system centralization by dividing it into subsystems: instead of one central administrator, hundreds of thousands of administrative units (nodes) which are independent of each other perform management of the monetary system. To solve the contradiction of trust Satoshi proposes to introduce an anti-system – instead of the traditional system of trust he proposes a system of complete distrust, where all decisions and every action are checked, and the checking is done not by humans, but by mathematical algorithms.

Biography:

Viesturs Tamuzs, Master of Chemistry, Bachelor of Philosophy, Chairman of the Council of the Cryptocurrency institution Globitex (Latvia)), AI TRIZ Practitioner, Member of AI (Altshuller Institute) Board of Directors

Mr. Viesturs Tamuzs is the Chairman of the Council of the Cryptocurrency institution Globitex (Latvia) and e-money institution NexPay (Lithuania). For more than thirty years Mr. Viesturs Tamuzs has been an active venture capitalist, in recent years his interest has been in cryptocurrency companies. He holds a master’s degree in chemistry from the Chemistry Faculty of the University of Latvia, where he also pursued academic work as a researcher and faculty member. In 2020, he obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Open University (UK). He is the author of three scientific works related to TRIZ.

"Enhancing TOP-TRIZ Problem Solving with AI"

Abstract:

Zinovy Royzen, TRIZ Master

Attempts for integration of AI into problem-solving frameworks have been noticed in recent times. This paper is focused on the distinct advantages brought forth by GPT-4 in the domain of problem solving.

Firstly, no one problem solver is an expert in every subject matter. Often, the problem-solving process is halted to source crucial information. Here, GPT-4 emerges as a universal subject matter expert, producing impressive outcomes and significantly cutting down the problem-solving duration.

Secondly, it's important to underline that most problems can’t be solved in one step.

Through our research, we've recognized the significance of framing questions that pertain to individual steps. Mastering the art of querying in a manner optimized for AI becomes paramount in this context.

Notably, both these benefits of GPT-4 can be integrated into any problem-solving methodologies.

Lastly, our efforts in training GPT-4 with TOP-TRIZ have yielded astonishing results. Some issues that dogged our clients for years and took hours to resolve using TOP-TRIZ were solved in a matter of minutes when approached with a GPT-4 trained on TOP-TRIZ. Such advancements underscore the potential of using TOP-TRIZ with AI.

Biography:

Zinovy Royzen is a TRIZ Master, certified by Genrich S. Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ, and a world-recognized leader in TRIZ development, training, and project facilitation. He is the author of three TRIZ Manuals, many TRIZ papers, and TRIZ tutorials.

He has over 30 years of experience of using TRIZ in solving challenging problems and teaching engineers to achieve outstanding results in innovation. He has transformed the classical TRIZ theory into TOP-TRIZ, a powerful and user-friendly version of modern TRIZ, and led the development of Innovator’s Engine, TOP-TRIZ Problem Formulator, and Solver software.

Mr. Royzen is the President of TRIZ Consulting, Inc., Seattle, the first U.S. company to apply TRIZ, founded by him in 1992 after immigration from the former Soviet Union.

Since that time, he has conducted his customized TRIZ courses not only in the US but also in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, South Korea, and Singapore.

Mr. Royzen has led TRIZ training and/or provided facilitation at companies and organizations in different industries including Boeing, Bridgestone, Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor Company, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, Illinois Tool Works, Inficon, Ingersoll Rand, Kimberly-Clark, LG Electronics, Lucent Technologies, Michelin, National Semiconductor, NASA, Philips, Rolls-Royce, Samsung, Siemens, Western Digital, and Xerox among others. He has taught thousands of engineers and engineering managers, including more than two thousand engineers at Boeing.

He taught his 4 CEUs TRIZ courses for UCLA Extension in 1997-2014. Since 2014 his 4 CEU courses have been offered by Everett College. He also conducted his courses at the University of Washington, Seattle, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Milan.

TRIZ solutions helped his clients to reduce cost, improve product reliability, solve long-standing and challenging problems, develop concepts for next product generations, develop high-quality inventions, win new orders, and save hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of the participants of his courses became the best inventors of their companies.

He has an MS in Mechanical Engineering and holds 35 patents.

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"Ideation AI Application for Complexity Management"

Abstract:

Presented by David C. Bonner, President/CEO, Ideation International, Inc.

and Alla Zusman, Boris Zlotin, et al.

Many problems are complex today, which is very different from complicated, meaning there are many variables and non-linear relationships, and unpredictable outcomes, like a pandemic, climate change, poverty, mass obesity, etc.

Traditional tools typically utilized for addressing complicated problems have been proven inefficient in the case of complex situations, often resulting in unintended consequences of seemingly reasonable solutions or no plausible solutions at all.

Ideation Complexity Management tools, especially the AI-enabled Problem Formulator® (PF) module, are ideally suited to address complex situations because they allow us to map the problem and create greater clarity on the interaction and the relationships between the complex system parts.

Recently, various AI Chatbots have become available to help resolve complex situations and find solutions to difficult challenges. However, the usefulness of a Chatbot response strongly depends on the quality of the questions.

As a complex situation is often a combination of less complicated partial problems; the difficulties are in their number, numerous, often unclear interconnections, unknown patterns, etc., PF’s ability to clarify and “slice” a complex situation into a set of multiple perspectives and the use of traditional brainstorming or AI chatbots to find solutions to partial problems must be considered a critical advantage to find a satisfactory resolution.

Solutions obtained with the help of Ideation Complexity Management tools with the embedded AI Chatbot connectivity are at core, socially/culturally independent and hold resilience as the situation changes.

Biography:

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Dr. Bonner is Chairman & CEO of Stematix, Inc., a regenerative medicine company. He is also CEO of Ideation International, Inc., a consulting and SaaS-AI firm that practices rapid innovation techniques, including those regarding intellectual property and road mapping. As Chief Technology Officer at Cabot Corporation and Global Director of Technology at Rohm and Haas Company, Dr. Bonner has had extensive experience in executive management as well as technology development. Dr. Bonner was also Senior Vice President of Westlake Group, Premix Incorporated, and Vice President of the B. F. Goodrich Company. Dr. Bonner was an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California-Berkeley. He was named a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of the University of Texas in 2001. Dr. Bonner has also served on several National Academies Committees and Boards. Dr. Bonner has led several start-up ventures and has extensive licensing experience, globally.

Dr. David C. Bonner

2802 Flintrock Trace, Suite 256, Austin, TX 78738, Tel. 512-575-3783, WhatsApp/Telegram +1-713-444-0592

"Creative Person Development" (CPD)

Abstract:

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. "

by Albert Einstein

Historically, the first materials related to Creative Person Development (CPD) were created and published by Genrich Altshuller and Igor Vertkin about 30 years ago.

Altshuller and Vertkin analyzed many biographies of great and creative people. This research work was the creation of the Life Strategy of the Creative Person (LSCP). The main idea of LSCP was a game between the candidate for a” creative person” and environmental or external obstacles. This "game" describes nearly all possible moves of the "external environment" in order not to allow a creative person to gain the Great Aim and almost all possible "answers" of the creative person to win in this "fight." Each move was equipped with many examples, mostly from Soviet and Russian sources. All possible actions of the "external environment" and the creative person's possible "answers" are grouped into four main categories: opening, middle game, endgame, and post-endgame. Post-end games are possible in LSCP.

The author created a Creative Person Development (CPD) topic for his TRIZ training based on Jonathan Livingston Seagull's story by Richard Bach. It is a top-rated book available in many languages, and you can quickly go through Jonathan’s life milestones together with me.

CPD contains three parts (formation of the creative man, higher to heaven, perfection; you are a teacher) and 49 steps. Each step is equipped with the citation or free retelling from appropriate pages of a book, with comments, requirements to Creative Man, and Creative Man features.

Author, Isak Bukhman, short biography

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Isak Bukhman is TRIZ Master, President, and Consultant of TRIZ Solutions LLC (the USA), President of Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, senior consultant of Chongqing Innovation Method Society, honorary director of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Technological Innovation Methods and Tools, honorary member of Leibniz Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (LIFIS)

As their chief methodologist, Isak spent ten years at Invention Machine Corporation (IMC). It helped him create unique skills using TRIZ combined with Coldfire software for new systems creation and existing system development and problem-solving. He now works as an independent consultant and owns TRIZ Solutions, LLC.

TRIZ Solutions LLC is a consulting company that offers a complete array of Technology for Innovation products and services to companies from any industry using a training system, project facilitation, consultant preparation, and support in creating Centers of Innovation. TRIZ Solutions LLC helps realize the privilege and obligation each member of our society must be creative and live a successful and happy life.

During recent years, Isak has been active delivering TRIZ training workshops and guiding the development of more than 100 innovation projects for more than 40 leading global Corporations, Institutes, and Universities including American Axle & Manufacturing (USA), BYD (P. R. of China), Bobcat (USA), Chery Automobile (P. R. of China), Delphi (USA), Eaton (USA), Hendrickson (USA), Ingersoll Rand (USA), Johnson Controls (USA), Alcon (USA), Biomerieux (USA), DePuyOrthopaedics (Germany), Medtronic (USA), Steris (USA), Baker Hughes (USA), Chemtura (USA), Masco-Behr (USA), Shell (USA, UK), Stress Engineering Services (USA), A.O. Smith (USA), BaoSteel (P. R. of China), Flowserve (USA), Hollingsworth (USA), Savannah River Site (USA), POSCO (South Korea), Xinetics (USA), DSO National Laboratories (Singapore), General Dynamics Land Systems (USA), Asus (Taiwan), Compal Electronics (Taiwan), Clorox (USA), Corning (USA), Epistar (Taiwan), GAF (USA), Henkel (Germany), Huawei Technologies (P. R. of China), Intel (USA, Israel), Johnson & Johnson (USA, Brazil), Matter/Fisher-Price (USA), Microsoft (USA), NXP (Hong Kong), Samsung Electro-mechanics (South Korea), Philip Morris (USA), Philips (Netherlands), Shenzhen Kaifa Technology (P. R. of China), Whirlpool (USA), Siemens (Germany), GEGR-E (Germany), Southwest Research Institute (USA), Chung Hua University (Taiwan), Lunghwa University of Science and Technology (Taiwan), Mitsubishi Research Institute (Japan), Singapore Polytechnic-school of Mechanical & Engineering (Singapore), Tulane University (New Orleans, USA), Leibnitz Institute for Interdisciplinary studies (Germany), Holon Institute of Technology (Israel), Universidad Technologica Nacional (Argentina), Tsinghua University (P. R. of China), Hebei University of Technology (P. R of China)

Isak’s work has also included the delivery of many essential and advanced training seminars (some together with Genrich Altshuller), education and training of thousands of managers, engineers, and researchers in TRIZ/Value Methodology, and – closest to his heart – seven years of child and adolescent creativity (TRIZ) education in his native Latvia. It was a long way from a team of 12-year-old students to a specialized TRIZ K11 elementary-middle-high school of Lomonosov name in Riga.

“Creative Imagination Development” (CID)

Abstract:

In his Essay on the Creative Imagination, Théodore-Armand Ribot, the famous French psychologist, shows that the peak of human creative imagination occurs between 14 and 16 years of age. Then the curve begins to drop. That was at the beginning of the 20th century. A hundred years after Ribot, the peak of creativity is much lower, and the peak age has shifted to between 10 and 12 years (Figure 1).

CID 2023 10 25 115348

Figure 1 Creativity dependent on age, without TRIZ education and with TRIZ education

It is clear why this shift is happening, and the fact that access to information has become widely available to people of all ages is a large factor. However, publicly available data gives us standard solutions for everyday situations and problems. Click on a button and get an answer without having to do much thinking, much less imagining.

To be sure, all modules of TRIZ more or less develop our creative imagination and lower our tendency toward Psychological Inertia. However, this is not enough for TRIZ specialist preparation. In the 70s, it became clear that a particular Creative Imagination Development (CID) course was needed.

Genrich Altshuller and Pesach Amnuel created the first CID course in the late 70s. From that time, the CID course became one of the most valuable parts of TRIZ, acting as a lubricant for creative thinking.

I started to use the CID course in my TRIZ training during the early 80s. Each day of training, we spent at least one hour on CID topics. We discussed creating fantastic ideas and situations, analyzed interesting science-fiction stories and novels, and made our own science-fiction stories. I found that TRIZ training went more slowly, and projects were not as successful if the CID course was not used.

But today, the old CID course is not a part of most TRIZ training.

We created a new CID course there and have used only TRIZ tools for fantastic situations and ideas creation. It is the main difference between the presented CID and the CID course developed by Genrich Altshuller and Pesach Amnuel.

References

Altshuller, G. S. (1984). Creativity as an Exact Science, New York, NY: Gordon and Breach

Altshuller, G. S. (1996). And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared. Worcester, MA: Technical Innovation Center.

Bukhman, Isak. (2012). TRIZ Technology for Innovation, Taiwan: Cubic Creativity Company.

Author, Isak Bukhman, short biography

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As their chief methodologist, Isak spent ten years at Invention Machine Corporation (IMC). It helped him create unique skills using TRIZ combined with Goldfire software for new systems creation and existing system development and problem-solving. He now works as an independent consultant and owns TRIZ Solutions, LLC.

Abstract:

"The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: An ISO Perspective"

By Sid Ahmed Benraouane, Ph.D.

The presentation will address some of the recent developments in AI. We will look at AI systems, their impact on economic development, and how organizations have been using them. We will look at the global trends governing AI production and the integration of AI systems. We will also look at the governance of AI systems through the lenses of international standards developed or underdeveloped by the ISO and IEC to help build a responsible AI practice.

Biography:

Dr. Sid Ahmed Benraouane is a thought leader with experience in digital transformation, technology policy, and government innovation. He is a member expert of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial Intelligence the committee tasked with the development of a set of ISO Standards on Artificial Intelligence, including ISO 42001 AI Management System.

Dr. Benraouane teaches digital transformation and advises MENA Governments on innovation, digital transformation, and technology implementation. He is a speaker at the World Government Summit (UAE), BAIDEC/MEMTEC conference (Bahrain), Big Data and Cloud Show (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), and World Mobility and Autonomous Driving Conference (UAE).

Dr. Benraouane has published many books on technology policy, technology implementation, and innovation. In his book “Using the ISO 56002 Innovation Management System: A Practical Guide for Implementation and Building a Culture of Innovation,” Dr. Benraouane provides a step-by-step planning process that helps government leaders design an ecosystem that engages and empowers innovators and creative minds.

"TRIZ versus The Global Descent Into AI-Driven Totalitarianism"

by Darrell Mann

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” Hannah Arendt

Abstract:

There is little agreement between commentators about whether AI will be the making or the downfall of mankind. There is, however, something closer to consensus that whatever changes AI triggers will happen quickly, and that they will happen far more rapidly than our institutions will be able to handle effectively.

Few if any futurologists have the necessary tools to see more than a year into the future, particularly during this turbulent time in our history. This is largely because they do not understand the role of contradictions and especially conflicts between societal and market trends in our emergent future. The first part of the presentation describes a TRIZ-based trend conflict analysis aimed at providing a more accurate range of future scenarios built around the likely evolution of AI technologies and the conflicts they help solve, and the new ones they create. This analysis reveals four likely outcomes in the coming decade, three of which involve different forms of totalitarianism, and one – the least likely – sees mankind break through to a higher level of thinking, which we might think of as a ‘humanocracy’.

The second half of the paper speculates on the vital – ‘necessary’ – role of contradiction-focused TRIZ thinking in enabling the emergence of this fourth scenario. It focuses on the emerging critical contradictions – relating to a global over-production of ‘elites’ and ‘intellectuals’ – and how AI solutions equipped with TRIZ-based capabilities can help facilitate the resolution of these contradictions.

Biography: Darrell Mann

Over the last 25 years, Darrell has helped deliver over $6B in new value to clients across the world and has served as the spark behind a dozen spin-out companies. He is the author of over 1000 innovation-related papers and articles and a dozen TRIZ-related textbooks, the latest pair focusing on innovation in start-up enterprises and the future-proofing of societal institutions. Over the years, he has held Visiting Professorships at a range of different universities around the world. He is currently a Professor at the University of Buckingham in the UK.

Harnessing AI for effective problem solving and innovation

In this talk, we will discuss the importance of understanding customer needs for business success. We will introduce a creative thinking tool called Action Preventing Action (APA) and highlight its limitations. To address these limitations, we will unveil a groundbreaking process that leverages AI-assisted customer needs analysis, among other tools. We will showcase how the AI companion provides hints and support throughout the problem-solving processes, empowering individuals to unlock their full potential. While AI cannot solve problems or invent new ideas, it serves as a valuable assistant, enabling fruitful discussions and idea generation.

Authors

Dr. Anatoly Agulyansky

Over 40 years of problem solving, innovation, and process experience in academy and manufacturing.

Lecturer, trainer, facilitator, blogger, storyteller.

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Process development and improvement Expert Lehavim, HaDarom (South) District, Israel, Nanotechnology

Experience

Back End and Far Back End Integrator Intel

January 2006 – Present (10 years 9 months)

Consultant on Tantalum capacitors manufacturing development Vishay Intertechnology Inc.

April 1998 – December 2006 (8 years 9 months)

Consultant in the field of chemistry, metallurgy, and material science Fluortech Ltd. - private consulting in chemistry and technology

January 1996 – March 1998 (2 years 3 months)

Chief Scientist - tantalum Oxide high purity powder production TAN Ceramics Ltd.

March 1993 – May 1996 (3 years 3 months)

Alex Agulyansky

25 years in R&D and product development with experience in microelectronics, software engineering, and process development. An early employee in Process Street. Started from early-stage Seed funding through Round A and beyond. The company expanded to over 40 employees.

Title:

Empowering Inventive Problem Solving with Artificial Intelligence Systems

by Peter Hanik

Many naturally creative people can think abstractly about solutions to previous problems. Then they combine the abstract solutions with resources in the system that contains the current problem to form an idea. TRIZ is a structured problem-solving method that is analogous in many ways to the thinking of the naturally creative problem solver. There are many variations on the original TRIZ method, but all of these rely on the fundamental concept of TRIZ, inventive principles, which are essentially abstract solutions used many times in the past on a wide variety of problems. I have facilitated many problem-solving workshops using TRIZ with cross-functional teams of subject matter experts. This presentation will explore the dynamics of facilitating such problem-solving workshops and discuss how AI could be leveraged to increase the productivity of TRIZ problem solving projects. Reference will be made to a number of problem types including patent development and product offerings.

Biography:

Pete Hanik

Founder/President Pretium Innovation, LLC
- Developed proprietary on-site and online services for innovation methods in business strategy, business process redesign, capital efficiency improvement, product concept development, intellectual property enhancement, and technology road mapping.
President/CEO Millennium Petrochemicals
- Overall P&L responsibility for a $350 million international acetyls chemical business.
Senior Vice President Technology Millennium Chemicals
- Responsible for strategy and execution in Research & Development, Information Technology, eBusiness, Quality, and Health-Safety-Environmental.
President Technology Reliance Industries (Mumbai)
- Led research and development programs with a staff of about 300 professionals in refining, petrochemicals, and polymers.
Vice President Reengineering and Information Services Quantum Chemical
- Led a company-wide business process reengineering effort increasing operating profit by $62 million per year.
Director Applied Research and Technical Service Quantum Chemical
- Led efforts in product development and customer technical support for a broadly based polyolefins business
Director Quality Quantum Chemical
- Initiated Six Sigma and VOC programs and standardized all laboratory test methods
Production Superintendent Northern Petrochemical
- Responsible for 325 kta of LDPE and LLDPE production
Regional Sales Manager Northern Petrochemical
- Sales of all polyolefin products in the Midwest
Superintendent Process Control Systems Northern Petrochemical
- Responsible for all plant process control computers, data acquisition systems, and information technology systems
Education
- Master of Business Administration, University of Chicago, 1987.
- Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1972

Title:

PROFUN – a property function neural net.

Speaker: Simon Dewulf

Abstract:

Innovation Logic is a step-by-step process to solve problems, create new innovations, or find new markets. The method has been developed and fine-tuned based on over twenty years of research and innovation projects for technology-driven companies. It brings a logical approach to transferring knowledge and predicts new directions for the future of your product or process. Innovation Logic has given rise to an original neural net based on property–function relations, PROFUN. PROFUN brings great possibilities for AI-based innovation. Our patent property variation of systems and processes US2008091671A1 describes a method to utilize existing patent knowledge as a source for comparing systems across domains in terms of their properties and functions. By measuring a high level of similarity, their differences become potential new specifications.

Biography:

CEO at Patent Inspiration

Simon Dewulf is a passionate advocate for engineering creativity and innovation. Throughout his career, he has actively contributed to over 500 successful innovation projects. His Ph.D. thesis titled "Patent Data-Driven Innovation Logic," completed at Imperial College presents a novel framework for innovation analysis using patent data. Patent Inspiration, the tool he developed is adopted by technology-driven companies (P&G, Shell, Bosch, …) as well as numerous universities.

"Towards an ambitious and increasingly realistic research:

the intelligent machine as an invention assistant"

Abstract:

The tsunami of information and publicity surrounding ChatGPT, and its competitors has been shaking the TRIZ planet for just under a year. Beyond the opportunism of simply riding the wave, some are inventing themselves as prompt engineers for TRIZ, which will very soon find its limits. It's time for the TRIZ world to ask itself whether research is still possible outside the one carried out by OpenAI or companies with the same power. Are we (TRIZ professionals) now all reduced to merely designing sequences of queued prompts to target an expected ideal result or are new scientific and technical challenges still open to the TRIZ world for its future? In this talk, we'll take you on a journey of research, where we won't be talking about ChatGPT (at last!), but about other AI tools that have been proven to be very useful in tackling an intelligent form of invention assistance.

Short RESUME from Prof. Denis CAVALLUCCI

Research Interests and Awards:

Heading a research team on Inventive Design, I am aiming at computing inventive activity using Artificial Intelligence & Design Theories Methods & Tools. The goal is to produce a new set of methods & tools for enterprises’ R&D to switch over from empirical creativity to a structured and AI-powered one.

Awarded by Japan TRZ Society in 2012 for my research achievements
Awarded in the USA at Purdue Univ. by Altshuller Institute as an Educational award in 2018.
Innovation Award in 2011 by MBDA company for “noise reduction in missile systems at launching”.
Nominated in 2017 Honorary Professor of the University of Jinan – China
Awarded best paper in IFIP in 2011 for “Structuring knowledge use in Inventive Design”.
Author of 7 books at Springer.

A. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Teacher in BS section in Plastic manufacturing and engineering (from 1989 – 1996); Associate Professor in Mechanical engineering (1996 – 2001); now full professor in Engineering of Innovation (From 2001 – until now), original background in Industrial engineering and mechanics. Teaching at all levels from graduate to postgraduate students in various engineering fields (mechanics, mechatronics, civil engineering, plastic manufacturing, computer science, electronics,) over the past 29 years.

B. PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

2017 – now: Head of a Research team (CSIP) of 40 people within ICube Laboratory (UMR-CNRS 7357)
2017 – now: - Honorary Professor at the University of Jinan
2015 – now: Chairman of WG5.4 of IFIP
2001 – 2015: Member of ASME of Design Society, ETRIA, and IFIP.
2012 – now: Member of the editorial board of Computers in Industry
2011 – now: Member of the editorial board of the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
2001 – 2017: Authors of 5 books at Springer & Elsevier

D. PREVIOUS AND CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS IN RELATED AREAS

French ANR project “Grand Emprunt” Innovent-e. IDEFI – 2012-2018. (5,5M€)
Project PIXSEB – 2017-2018 (Regional Funding 200K€)
Project DEFI – 2010-2013 (Regional Funding 200K€)

E. PIONEERING TRIZ-RELATED ACTIVITIES

First research Master associated with TRIZ in France 1995
Author of the first TRIZ course post-graduate level in the country (France) in 1996
The first research paper was published in a scientific journal in France in 1997
First Ph.D. related to TRIZ in 1999
First non-Russian TRIZ Certificate by Altshuller association (Mitrofanov as president) in 2000.
Research leader of TRIZ activities at INSA Strasbourg since 2002
First Full professorship in Academia (French HDR) associated with TRIZ Scientific Research and Teaching.

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