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Dr Burak Suslu is an optimisation researcher and technical founder building diagnostic and decision systems for complex assets across aerospace, industry, and applied software. His doctoral research at Cranfield University's IVHM Centre — defended November 2025 — produced two contributions to the field of sensor optimisation. The first, the Multi-Objective Sensor Optimisation Framework (MOSOF), recasts sensor selection as a constrained search over a Pareto-efficient surface across cost, weight, reliability, and diagnostic coverage. The second, the Normalised Diagnostic Contribution Index (NDCI), provides a comparable measure of each candidate sensor's share of system-level diagnostic capability — closing the long-standing ambiguity of "more sensors equals better." The methods were validated across four aircraft subsystems (Engine, Fuel, EPS, ECS) on Cranfield's SESAC platform and published in three first-author papers in the journal Sensors (MDPI). Before his doctoral work, Burak spent five years founding and running SSL Elektrik-Elektronik, an industrial-automation business in Turkey serving state and private operators in oil, gas, and utilities. The combination — industrial fieldwork plus peer-reviewed methods — is the throughline of his current work. Burak is the founder of AcoustR, a venture that turns microphone signals into condition assessments for engines and industrial machines, and the author of long-form case studies and essays at buraksuslu.com/writing on multi-objective decision-making, sensor design, and the path from peer-reviewed research to deployed product. He consults on sensor-optimisation audits and decision-system design for aerospace and industrial programmes. He lives in London and works between London and Cranfield.