Andrew Song

About

PhD student at USC researching origami applications in engineering. MS in aerospace engineering with a concentration in computational fluid and solid mechanics. BS in mechanical engineering, applied mathematics minor. Interested in the new space industry, and currently doing research on origami applications for active and reconfigurable metamaterials.

Experience

• Research Assistant at Paul Plucinsky Group
  May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  Design and implementation of an energy minimization algorithm to find stable 3D configurations of origami structures given a 2D manufacturing state to map out state space of all rigid foldable origami configurations.

• Research Assistant at Columbia University Creative Machines Lab
  Sep 2021 - Mar 2022 · 7 mos

  Robot Metabolism Project

• Summer Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 · 3 mos

  JPL SIP

• Undergraduate Research Fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Apr 2020 - Aug 2020 · 5 mos

  CalTech-JPL SURF

• Summer Research Intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 · 3 mos

  Continued and finalized research from the previous summer.