Dr. Nanshu Lu is the Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-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 is a Clarivate (Web of Science) highly cited researcher, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science (SES). She is currently an Associate Editor of Nano Letters and Applied Mechanics Reviews. She has been named 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review (TR 35) 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. She has been named one of the five great innovators on campus and five world-changing women at UT-Austin.