Olivier de Weck

In January 2017 de Weck started a two-year professional leave of absence from MIT to serve as the Senior Vice President for Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus Group in Toulouse, France.

de Weck joined the MIT faculty in 2001 where he has a dual appointment with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Engineering Systems Division. He previously served on the National Research Council Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions (2009–2010) and as the Executive Director of the MIT Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) Study (2010–2013). As of 2011 he serves as the co-director of the Center for Complex Engineering Systems at KACST and MIT. As of 2015 he serves as the faculty director of the MIT-Switzerland program.

de Weck earned a Dipl. Ing. degree in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich in 1993. Between 1993 and 1997 he worked as a liaison engineer and engineering program manager on the Swiss F/A-18 fighter aircraft programs. He earned both a S.M. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Systems in 2001 from MIT. His doctoral dissertation titled "Multivariable isoperformance methodology for precision opto-mechanical systems" was supervised by David W. Miller who serves as NASA's Chief Technologist as of March 2014.

Olivier L. de Weck (born 1968) is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an Adjunct Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has authored and co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is a Fellow of the INCOSE and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. As of January 2013 de Weck serves as the editor-in-chief for Systems Engineering, the leading journal of INCOSE. He is best known for contributions to the field of Systems Engineering in multidisciplinary design optimization, space logistics, and "ilities".