Dr. Kate Fu is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2014 to 2021, she was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to these appointments, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In May 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 2007. Dr. Fu is an NSF CAREER awardee and a recipient of the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED) Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) Young Investigator Award.