She completed her B.S. at Johns Hopkins University (2007), M.S. at U.C. Berkeley (2008), and Ph.D. at Harvard University (2012). At Purdue, she founded The Faboratory, which contains a leading facility for the rapid design, fabrication, and analysis of materially soft and multifunctional robots. Her research interests involve stretchable electronics, soft actuators, soft material manufacturing, and soft-bodied control. She is the winner of a 2014 NASA Early Career Faculty Award, a 2015 NSF CAREER Award, and she was named to the 2015 Forbes’ 30 under 30 list.http://bit.ly/1Y5NxJ9