Prof. Park completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. His research interest is bio-inspired design and manufacturing of soft robots and microrobots. He is the winner of the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Sensors Journal, in 2013, a NASA Tech Brief Award from the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), in 2012, and a Technology Development Fellowship for independent postdoctoral research from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, in 2010. His recent paper on soft artificial skin was selected as a cover article of the IEEE Sensors Journal.