Girish Krishnan is an associate professor in the department of industrial and enterprise systems engineering and an affiliate faculty at Mechanical Sciences and Engineering and Carle-Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research lies in the intersection of compliant mechanism design and soft robotics with applications in healthcare and agriculture. He is a recipient of several awards including best paper awards at ASME- IDETC conference, Freudenstein young investigator award, NSF CAREER award, and UIUC award for excellence in advising. he has been a Pi and Co- Pi of several projects sponsored through NSF, USDA- NIFA, Center for compact and efficient fluid power research, and General Motors Corp. He received his Ph.D from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and MS from Indian Institute of Science, India.