Siddharth Krishnan

Bio

Siddharth is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Terman Faculty Fellow at Stanford University. Prior to this, he was a K99-funded Research Scientist in the groups of Prof. Daniel Anderson and Prof. Robert Langer at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and at Boston Children's Hospital. He received BS and MS degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Prof. John Rogers' group. His work has focused on the development of bioelectronic devices for sensing and therapeutics. He has published over 20 scientific papers, is an inventor several granted and pending patents and is co-founded of Rhaeos Inc., a company focused on translating his graduate work on wireless wearable diagnostic tools for neurological surgery. His work has been recognized through several awards, including a postdoctoral fellowship from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the 2019 Illinois Innovation Prize, a graduate student medal from the Materials Research Society and being named on MIT Technology Review’s Global Innovators Under 35 list.

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
• Member, Bio-X
• Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Administrative Appointments

• Member, Stanford Diabetes Research Center (2025 - Present)

Honors & Awards

• Terman Faculty Fellow, Stanford University
• K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, NIH-NIBIB
• Early Career Distinguished Presenter, Materials Research Society
• Global Innovators Under 35 (TR35), MIT Technology Review
• Illinois Innovation Prize, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• JDRF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Breakthrough T1D (Formerly JDRF)
• Chakrapani innovation award for outstanding PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professional Education

• PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• MS, Washington University in St. Louis
• BS, Washington University in St. Louis