Dr Madhu Krishna Menon has extensive experience in the Hydrocarbon, Mining and Utility industries. He currently works in the field of Engineering Asset Management, specialising on data-driven solutions for industrial problems. His recent work with mining and utility clients has been in maintenance strategy evaluation and optimisation, life-cycle asset management and facility downtime reduction. He teaches subjects in Asset Management, Risk Engineering and Systems Safety at a public university in Australia as an Engineering Academic. Madhu is enthusiastic in developing pathways for asset-intensive organisations to implement Predictive Maintenance without making significant infrastructure investments, thereby accelerating the digital transformation of asset management function. His focus is on value creation by applying domain knowledge-grounded AI techniques on existing industrial data sources like machinery vibration signals, SCADA systems and unstructured technical text. The solutions are centred around the practical requirements of asset state estimation, anomaly detection, degradation modelling and Remaining Useful Life estimation. By shifting the focus from reactive responses to evidence-based intervention decisions for critical systems and machinery, this approach generates practical pathways for clients to leverage AI-enabled asset condition monitoring. From 2004 to 2016, Madhu held the positions of Senior Engineer and later Staff Engineer for Rotating Machinery at the Sabah Operations of PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd. In this role, he evaluated plant modification proposals, conducted feasibility studies, led multi-disciplinary start-up readiness audits for greenfield oil and gas processing facilities and drove root cause failure analysis for high-impact asset failures. He also developed and implemented maintenance strategies, reliability plans and asset integrity frameworks for critical rotating equipment including gas turbines, compressors and pumps. Madhu formerly worked as Machinery Engineer with Larson & Toubro-Chiyoda (India), where he contributed to Detailed Engineering to the Ras-Laffan LNG project in Qatar. He has also worked as Mechanical Engineer in downstream facilities including polymer and fertilizer plants in India. Qualifications and Professional Registrations Madhu holds a PhD in Data-Driven Decision-Making for Predictive Maintenance, a Master of Maintenance and Reliability Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia, Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers UK, Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers India.