Shishir is an Assistant Professor of the Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) in IISc Bengaluru. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (2016) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (2012) from Texas A&M University, and B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering (2008) from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in 2017 and as an INSPIRE Faculty from 2018 - 2020. He is currently the PI of Stochastic Robots Lab at IISc. Shishir started his career in the field of robotics, especially in the domain of legged robots. He has diversified to other fields like safety-critical control, and machine learning for all kinds of robotic platforms.