Dr. Nanshu Lu is the Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.Eng. with honors from Tsinghua University, Beijing, her Ph.D. from Harvard University, and then Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship at UIUC. Her research concerns the mechanics, materials, manufacture, and human- or robot-integration of soft electronics. She has been named 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review and iCANX/ACS Nano Inaugural Rising Star. She has received the US NSF CAREER Award, ONR and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, and the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.