Trained at IIT Madras (BTech & DD MTech) and Imperial College London (PhD, Postdoc), Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal has expertise in Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), co-leading the Center for NDE. With over 30 funded projects, 200 technical articles, 33 granted IPs, he is widely recognised for his pioneering work on waveguide ultrasonics and robotics for digital transformation in the industrial (energy and mobility) and social (water, health and sanitation) contexts. He is recipient of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize under the category of Technology and Innovation ( 2024). Prof. Prabhu is passionate about service-oriented engineering education and technology translation, working closely with companies, agencies and societal bodies in taking these innovations to the field. In this quest he has also co-founded several Startups that license his IPs, and are disrupting the asset/ plant integrity maintenance space with their original offerings digital integrity monitoring. Recipient of prestigious Early Career awards from academia and industry (National Design Award from Institution of Engineers (India), National Young Scientist Awards from: Indian Society for NDT and Institute for Smart Structures and Systems, Institute R&D Award from IIT Madras and the National Swarnajayanti Fellowship from DST, Govt of India), Prof. Prabhu’s work has also been featured widely in popular media. Prof. Prabhu is member of the Editorial Boards of the widely regarded peer-reviewed journals, Ultrasonics and NDT&E International. At IIT Madras, he is Advisor for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and thus the faculty in-charge of the maker space Center for Innovation and the pre-incubator Nirmaan. He is on the Advisory Board of the Techin, the Incubator of IIT Palakkad, as well as serving on their Global Sanitation Center of Excellence.