Natansh Vyas
Doctoral research fellow at University of South-Eastern Norway
Natansh Vyas combines a diverse academic and entrepreneurial background to engage with complex societal and industrial challenges, pursuing a PhD in systems engineering to explore how technology can be applied to create systems that are both effective and equitable. Drawing on his interdisciplinary foundations from engineering and social sciences, his work spans multiple domains, from shaping innovations in startups to studying the underlying principles that govern systemic organization and human progress. Guided by a vision of fairness, purpose, and sustainable impact, he seeks to contribute to systems that move beyond profit-driven incentives toward meaningful human flourishing.
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The process of transforming conceptual requirements into verifiable, realizable systems is a critical challenge in software and systems engineering. This research proposes an ontology-based approach to enhance the early validation of system requirements, focusing on bridging the gap between conceptualization and realization. By leveraging formal ontologies, the approach provides a structured framework for defining, modeling, and verifying requirements in the early stages of the system development lifecycle. This enables a clear and unambiguous representation of requirements, ensuring consistency, traceability, and alignment with stakeholders' expectations. The proposed method emphasizes the use of formal semantics to support automated reasoning and validation, allowing for the early identification of inconsistencies, ambiguities, or gaps in the requirements. Through case studies and empirical analysis, the research demonstrates the effectiveness of this ontology-driven approach in improving the quality and reliability of system requirements, facilitating smoother transitions from design to implementation. This work contributes to advancing the field of requirement engineering by providing a novel tool for ensuring verifiable and validated requirements early in the system development process.
“My research explores the resulting complexity caused by increased interconnectedness between systems and attempts to develop Systems Integration (SI) frameworks that provide actionable procedures to follow from the very beginning of development”
— Natansh Vyas on his research project “From Conceptualization to Realization: An ontology based approach to verifiable requirements for early validation”