🤖 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...

🙏🏼 Tremendously honored—and honoured—to be elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. #RAEngFellows 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 👇

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...

🎧 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.”

✨ 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...

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...

⚠️ 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. ⚖️

🔄 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

Bloom brightly and radiate hope, even if only for a season. 🌸

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.

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...

📝 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.

🚨 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...

🛕 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. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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🌀 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-...

💡”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...

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read and engage with it, and to Beethoven for his cameo appearance! As the maestro would say: da-da-da-dum! 🎹 🎵🎼

Fast efficiency is false efficiency. My opinion in the @financialtimes.com on how society seeks efficiency, often without a deep knowledge of what it is. www.ft.com/content/9b14...

☕️As a steadfast tea drinker, I've admired coffee from afar. From Ethiopian clay pots to South Indian steel filters, from Italian espresso machines to drip-by-drip decoction—coffee’s fascinating journey spans continents, cultures, and centuries! 🌱 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...