Jennifer H. Shin is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department at KAIST. She received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in ME at MIT in 1998, 2000, and 2004, respectively. Dr. Shin’s research interests center around the emerging interdisciplinary mechanobiology. Her research focuses on finding links between cellular biomechanics and physiological changes associated with diseases in light of diagnostics and therapeutics. She has been an active board member for 7 academic societies across the fields of core mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering. She served an active organizing committee for many international conferences including Biofabrication, microTAS, IBEC, ISPIV, and IEEE-EMBC, and is an elected member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB). In particular, Dr. Shin has displayed genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching students and was recognized with several teaching excellence awards both at the departmental and institutional levels. She received GASAN Academic Award from Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2018 in recognition of her contribution in Fluid Engineering Fields.