Guru Madhavan

Guru Madhavan is a biomedical engineer and senior policy adviser. He conducts research at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is vice president of IEEE-USA of IEEE, the world’s largest professional society for engineering and technology. He is the author of the book Applied Minds: How Engineers Think and can be found on Twitter at @BioengineerGM.

Events with Guru Madhavan

Friday April 12th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Politics, Philosophy, and Prestige with Guru Madhavan

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

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February 29, 2024

Wicked Problems and How to Solve Them

Join us as we discuss the general nature of wicked problems and how Binghamton and Binghamton University can become a city and university that is adept at solving them.

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March 29, 2018

Systems Engineering as Cultural Group Selection: A Conversation with Guru Madhavan

Systems engineering can be seen as an exceptionally pure form of artificial cultural group selection, which explicitly treats a physical or a social system as the unit of selection and employs highly refined processes for evolving the system’s component parts.