Dr. Rebeca Arista, Expert in Industrial Modeling and Simulation, Airbus
Dr. Rebeca Arista is an Expert in Industrial Modeling and Simulation at Airbus, architecting and implementing digital continuity frameworks for complex aerospace industrial systems design. Dr. Arista co-leads the Manufacturing for Collaborative Development working group for the A&D PLM Action Group and serves on the Governance Board of the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF). With over 15 years of experience across Airbus’s commercial and defense divisions, her work centers on the architecture of next-generation digital engineering ecosystems, leveraging ontology-based engineering and multi-domain simulation to optimize industrial processes, ensuring data accessibility and reusability across the extended enterprise. Dr. Arista bridges academic innovation and industrial practice through her contributions to international research forums and journals. Her core research and applied interests include cognitive digital twins, generative design, and applying collective intelligence to industrial decision-making.