Staff
Daryoush Allaei
Founder of QRDC, Dr. Allaei brings over 25 years of research and development and business experience to the team. He has provided the technical innovation and business leadership through fifteen years of funded research and development that led to several technological and product breakthroughs. He received his Ph.D., MSME and BSME degrees from Purdue University in the field of mechanics with his doctoral emphasis on Systems Dynamics and Structural Dynamics. His technical expertise is in dynamics systems with emphasis on vibration, shock, acoustic and noise control. He was a professor or adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi, Mankato State University, and Iowa State University. Dr. Allaei is a leader in the study and application of smart structures and vibration control. He is the inventor of the Vibration Control by Confinement and Energy Flow Control concepts, which address vibration and noise control problems in a very favorable performance to cost ratio. His accomplishments in this field include over 85 national and international publications, numerous speaking engagements at conferences and workshops, Chair position at several conference sessions, nine USA patents with internationals pending and several pending or in-preparation patents, and over 10 technology awards and grants totaling about $8,000,000 from the U.S. government. Dr. Allaei is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Dr. Allaei is a registered Professional Engineer and Certified Manufacturing Engineer.