Rate My Professor Shahin Rahimifard

His research specializations centre on sustainability in Life Cycle Engineering, including sustainable product design, low carbon manufacturing, sustainable business and consumption models, product service systems, end-of-life management, recovery, reuse, and recycling technologies, automation in remanufacturing, and waste management in the food sector. Rahimifard serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering since 2007 and is a member of committees such as the IFAC Technical Committee on Enterprise Integration and Networking since 2001, and organising committees for conferences including CIRP Manufacturing Systems, International Conference on Manufacturing Research, and Value Chain Sustainability. He has delivered keynote speeches at events like the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing in 2008 and the IMS Manufacturing Technology Platform Workshop in 2008. Key publications include Zocco et al. (2025) 'Synchronized Object Detection for Autonomous Sorting, Mapping, and Quantification of Materials in Circular Healthcare'; Mardina et al. (2025) 'CM3D: A circular materials Multi-Criteria Decision-Making tool for medical devices'; Zocco et al. (2025) 'Towards a Thermodynamical Deep-Learning-Vision-Based Flexible Robotic Cell for Circular Healthcare'; Pu et al. (2024) 'Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Job Shop Scheduling in Dynamic Environments'; and Simaei and Rahimifard (2024) 'AI-based decision support system for enhancing end-of-life value recovery from e-wastes'.