Thrishantha is a professor of robotics at Imperial College London (ICL). He is the director of Morphlab at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, ICL. His main research interests are in embodied intelligence. He uses soft robots to test hypotheses on how the kinematics and dynamics of the physical body help to solve complex real-time physical interaction problems. Prior to ICL, he worked at Kings College London, MIT, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins University.