Guru Madhavan
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🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them.
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
🙏🏼 This Thanksgiving I am grateful to be included in the fellowship of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering (@raeng.org.uk), and for its strong partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Looking forward to the work ahead. #engineering
Photos: Rob Lacey.
Photos: Rob Lacey.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🙏🏼 This Thanksgiving I am grateful to be included in the fellowship of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering (@raeng.org.uk), and for its strong partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Looking forward to the work ahead. #engineering
Photos: Rob Lacey.
Photos: Rob Lacey.
Explore the AI-Z of Engineering to discover the amazing breadth of #engineering careers, and find out what is in your future.
thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi...
#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
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#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Explore the AI-Z of Engineering to discover the amazing breadth of #engineering careers, and find out what is in your future.
thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi...
#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi...
#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them.
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them.
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
A thoughtful leadership exchange and common purpose.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A thoughtful leadership exchange and common purpose.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
🤖 WHEN AI DIES ⚰️
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
October 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🤖 WHEN AI DIES ⚰️
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
🙏🏼 Tremendously honored—and honoured—to be elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. #RAEngFellows
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
We’re pleased to announce the 74 leading figures from the world of engineering and technology elected to our Fellowship at yesterday’s AGM. Meet them all now: https://raeng.org.uk/news/royal-academy-of-engineering-welcomes-74-new-fellows/
#RAEngFellows
#RAEngFellows
September 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🙏🏼 Tremendously honored—and honoured—to be elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. #RAEngFellows
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
💡TECHNOLOGY. What do we really mean when we use that word?
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
July 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
💡TECHNOLOGY. What do we really mean when we use that word?
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
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We're EngineerTeen, a new program from the National Academy of Engineering and a sibling site to @engineergirlnae.bsky.social which builds on that community to help youth chart their path to become the technical leaders of tomorrow. We're excited to get started! Visit us at engineerteen.org 🙂
July 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We're EngineerTeen, a new program from the National Academy of Engineering and a sibling site to @engineergirlnae.bsky.social which builds on that community to help youth chart their path to become the technical leaders of tomorrow. We're excited to get started! Visit us at engineerteen.org 🙂
🌍 Engineering is peer-reviewed by reality.
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
Guru & Roma reflect | Create the Future
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July 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🌍 Engineering is peer-reviewed by reality.
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
🎧 Fire. Space. Coffee. Disability. Elections. Sanitation.
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
June 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎧 Fire. Space. Coffee. Disability. Elections. Sanitation.
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
✨ Centuries of dance offer what even our most advanced organizations still chase.
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
May 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
✨ Centuries of dance offer what even our most advanced organizations still chase.
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
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An engineer, an educator, and an evolutionary biologist walk into a bar...(well, actually, we talked at @evmed.bsky.social meetings); today, 3 years later, our plans for a new bridge between engineering and medicine are published in @pnasnexus.org!
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May 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
An engineer, an educator, and an evolutionary biologist walk into a bar...(well, actually, we talked at @evmed.bsky.social meetings); today, 3 years later, our plans for a new bridge between engineering and medicine are published in @pnasnexus.org!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
⚠️ Explanations for failures in designed and evolved systems. 🚫
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
May 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
⚠️ Explanations for failures in designed and evolved systems. 🚫
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
🔄 True #resilience isn’t about bouncing back—it’s about bouncing forward. In my recent #TEDx talk, I challenge what #resilience really means—with help from warships, a pointy-nosed engineer, a childhood memory and a goat-footed god! 🐐
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
April 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🔄 True #resilience isn’t about bouncing back—it’s about bouncing forward. In my recent #TEDx talk, I challenge what #resilience really means—with help from warships, a pointy-nosed engineer, a childhood memory and a goat-footed god! 🐐
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
Bloom brightly and radiate hope, even if only for a season. 🌸
March 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Bloom brightly and radiate hope, even if only for a season. 🌸
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A review explores the possibilities and challenges of using AI in engineering. From autonomous vehicles, to robots, to AI-assisted surgery, we are entering an era of machines that can sense, learn, and make decisions without human supervision. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
March 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A review explores the possibilities and challenges of using AI in engineering. From autonomous vehicles, to robots, to AI-assisted surgery, we are entering an era of machines that can sense, learn, and make decisions without human supervision. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
⏱️Five years ago, as COVID hit, I wrote in @wsj.com that engineering—not just medicine—would steer our recovery. Time bore it out: logistics outran tactics.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.
March 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
⏱️Five years ago, as COVID hit, I wrote in @wsj.com that engineering—not just medicine—would steer our recovery. Time bore it out: logistics outran tactics.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.
Out in @pnasnexus.org! We explore engineered AI systems in autonomous vehicles, robotics, materials discovery, and medical applications—highlighting the need for safety, reliability, and effectiveness in their design and deployment. #AI #engineering
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academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Engineering and AI: Advancing the synergy
Abstract. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), driven by unprecedented data and computing capabilities, have tran
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March 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Out in @pnasnexus.org! We explore engineered AI systems in autonomous vehicles, robotics, materials discovery, and medical applications—highlighting the need for safety, reliability, and effectiveness in their design and deployment. #AI #engineering
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
📝 My opinion "Ports, Politics, and Peace: The Engineering of Stability" is out in The Straits Times, Singapore (straitstimes.com/opinion/port...). Paywalled there, but free via
the National University of Singapore Asia Research Institute (ari.nus.edu.sg/app-essay-gu...) and in the image below.
the National University of Singapore Asia Research Institute (ari.nus.edu.sg/app-essay-gu...) and in the image below.
March 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📝 My opinion "Ports, Politics, and Peace: The Engineering of Stability" is out in The Straits Times, Singapore (straitstimes.com/opinion/port...). Paywalled there, but free via
the National University of Singapore Asia Research Institute (ari.nus.edu.sg/app-essay-gu...) and in the image below.
the National University of Singapore Asia Research Institute (ari.nus.edu.sg/app-essay-gu...) and in the image below.
🚨 My new piece in @financialtimes.com explores an age-old lesson: peace isn’t an ideal to contemplate but a structure to make and maintain.
🛣️ Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monument—it was a metamorphosis. www.ft.com/content/62fc...
🛣️ Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monument—it was a metamorphosis. www.ft.com/content/62fc...
Lessons from ancient India on post-conflict reconstruction
Peace engineering is difficult to measure but critical to do
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January 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🚨 My new piece in @financialtimes.com explores an age-old lesson: peace isn’t an ideal to contemplate but a structure to make and maintain.
🛣️ Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monument—it was a metamorphosis. www.ft.com/content/62fc...
🛣️ Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monument—it was a metamorphosis. www.ft.com/content/62fc...
🛕 Revisiting a temple is different from visiting one. The structure doesn’t change, but something else does—the way light falls, the way silence sounds, the way your own presence shifts in relation to it. The same corridors see different feet, the same sanctum absorbs different prayers. #engineering
January 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
🛕 Revisiting a temple is different from visiting one. The structure doesn’t change, but something else does—the way light falls, the way silence sounds, the way your own presence shifts in relation to it. The same corridors see different feet, the same sanctum absorbs different prayers. #engineering
🌍 Disability isn't something to “fix”—it’s a powerful lens for #engineering #innovation and #inclusion.
🌟 The latest Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering podcast "Create the Future" podcast episode challenges how we think about #technology and capability.
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🌟 The latest Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering podcast "Create the Future" podcast episode challenges how we think about #technology and capability.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Engineering For Disability
Podcast Episode · Create the Future · 01/10/2025 · 25m
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January 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🌍 Disability isn't something to “fix”—it’s a powerful lens for #engineering #innovation and #inclusion.
🌟 The latest Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering podcast "Create the Future" podcast episode challenges how we think about #technology and capability.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
🌟 The latest Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering podcast "Create the Future" podcast episode challenges how we think about #technology and capability.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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An extensive body of work from the National Academies offers trusted, evidence-based advice to help build a stronger, more competitive U.S. economy. Take a look at a collection of our work to build a robust economy.
Advancing a Robust U.S. Economy
Much of the National Academies’ work is aimed at building a stronger, more competitive U.S. economy. We apply our expertise to spur innovation, bolster industrial capacity, modernize America’s…
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December 22, 2024 at 1:34 PM
An extensive body of work from the National Academies offers trusted, evidence-based advice to help build a stronger, more competitive U.S. economy. Take a look at a collection of our work to build a robust economy.
🌀 The Apocalyptic Ascent of Academia's Semantic Labyrinth 🌀
📖 "Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all," notes The Economist, analyzing 347,000 PhD abstracts published between 1812 and 2023.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
📖 "Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all," notes The Economist, analyzing 347,000 PhD abstracts published between 1812 and 2023.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
We analyse two centuries of scholarly work
www.economist.com
December 21, 2024 at 9:50 PM
🌀 The Apocalyptic Ascent of Academia's Semantic Labyrinth 🌀
📖 "Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all," notes The Economist, analyzing 347,000 PhD abstracts published between 1812 and 2023.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
📖 "Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all," notes The Economist, analyzing 347,000 PhD abstracts published between 1812 and 2023.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
💡”Edison never saw his deafness as a disability. In a 1925 interview he declared it to be ‘not a handicap, but a help to me’ as it meant that he didn’t need to bother with ‘small talk’ and ‘all the meaningless sounds that normal people hear.’” @royalsociety.org
royalsociety.org/blog/2024/11...
royalsociety.org/blog/2024/11...
Inventor and visionary: Thomas Edison’s legacy | Royal Society
Kip Heath explores Edison's legacy as part of Disability History Month.
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December 8, 2024 at 10:36 AM
💡”Edison never saw his deafness as a disability. In a 1925 interview he declared it to be ‘not a handicap, but a help to me’ as it meant that he didn’t need to bother with ‘small talk’ and ‘all the meaningless sounds that normal people hear.’” @royalsociety.org
royalsociety.org/blog/2024/11...
royalsociety.org/blog/2024/11...