Ying Yu is Professor in the Civil and Environment Engineering department at Shantou University, China. She got her PhD from Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Yu’s teaching and research are in the areas of design of large span structures and deployed structures. She has published over twenty papers in these areas. Her funded projects include the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National key research and development program and so on. As a visiting scholar in the Georgia Institute of Technology at 2019, she worked with Prof. Economou on combining origami with shape grammar, which brings us a new perspective of designing origami structures.