Nateri Madavan

Nateri Madavan is the acting deputy director for the Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP) within ARMD at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. In collaboration with the program director, Madavan supports the overall planning, management and evaluation of the directorate’s efforts to conduct experimental flight research, and to test the most promising concepts and technologies from across the ARMD portfolio at an integrated system level.

He supports the ARMD associate administrator in a broad range of mission directorate activities, including strategic and program planning, budget development, program review and evaluation, and external coordination.

Previously, Madavan served as the associate project manager for technology for the Advanced Air Transport Technology project in the Advanced Air Vehicles program within ARMD, managing the project’s research portfolio to enable revolutionary improvements in the energy efficiency and environmental compatibility of future generations of aircraft. He was also the acting deputy director for the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program within ARMD where, in collaboration with the program director, he supported the directorate’s efforts to cultivate revolutionary concepts, tools, and technologies that enable aviation transformation. Madavan began his NASA career conducting research in the development and application of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulation techniques at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. He has authored or co-authored over 60 journal articles and technical papers, and jointly holds two U.S. patents.

Madavan is a two-time recipient of the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and his work has been recognized through various NASA honor, space act, group achievement, and tech transfer awards.

He obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, a master’s degree from Iowa State, and a doctoral degree from Penn State, all in mechanical engineering, and is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.