Manager, Application Engineering, ESTECO North America (Novi, MI office). Zhendan has been with ESTECO for over 16 years, supporting ESTECO customers in their engineering optimization activities. He graduated in 2009 with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where his research focused on computer simulation of emergency evacuation using a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm. Technical interests: numerical optimization, design for six sigma, machine learning, data analytics and agentic AI.