Benjamin Shih is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2013) and has been a research assistant at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. His main area of research is soft robotics, an intersection of control, materials, and cognitive science. Ben led discussion of quantum control in the Quantum Robotics Group.