Krishnan Suresh is the Philip and Jean Myers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a Master’s in Manufacturing Engineering from UCLA in 1992, and a Master’s and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He later served as an Engineering Manager at Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Philadelphia from 1998 to 2002. He has received numerous peer-reviewed grants, including the prestigious NSF Career award. His research interests include topology optimization, additive manufacturing, advanced finite element analysis and high-performance computing. He has co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed papers, two of which have received best-paper awards from ASME. He has also authored two text-books on applied optimization. He is the founder of SciArt, LLC (www.sciartsoft.com), a UW-Madison spinoff that creates and supports high-performance topology optimization software solutions.