Scientific American (May 2014) -- Girish Krishnan, an assistant professor in industrial and enterprise systems engineering at Illinois, is mentioned in an article "Shape-Shifting Things to Come," written by Sridhar Kota, his former advisor at the University of Michigan. As a graduate student, Krishnan and his colleagues conducted elastic-design research--soft robotics--inspired by animals that had no apparent skeletons (article appears on pages 58-65 of the magazine).