Yang Song is an architectural researcher and a multidisciplinary scholar, holding an M.Arch degree in Architectural Design (the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London UCL) and a Ph.D. degree in Architecture (Liverpool School of Architecture LSA, University of Liverpool). Yang has been working for several years across research and projects that converge architectural design, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), robotic fabrication, immersive design, parametric design, generative algorithm design, and digital fabrication techniques. Before joining XJTLU, he served at the University of Liverpool as a Teaching Assistant in Digital Architectural Design and Technique modules, including Parametric Design, Robotic Fabrication and Advanced Architecture Design Studio master’s courses. During Yang’s academic career, he has lectured at numerous institutions internationally (including SCI-Arc, CUHK, dMA LUH, Yonsei University, Create SDU, DDU TUD, etc.) and instructed several workshops at international conferences (including SIGraDi, ASCAAD, SD Platform, etc.). His latest research focuses on AR/VR, immersive design, robotic fabrication and human-robot interaction. Yang has published several journal and conference papers with great contributions in these research fields, and has been invited as a reviewer for influential journals and international conferences. About his practical experience, Yang was the AR technology assistant and digital fabricator/researcher at FabPub Ltd (UK) and Soomeenhahm Design Ltd (UK), where he engaged in digital design and fabrication strategies with AR and robotic fabrication techniques for several advanced and large-scale installation projects in different countries.

Architectural Design and Digital Fabrication

Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR)

Robotic Fabrication (Robotic Assembly, Robotic Target Recognition, Robotic Painting, Robotic Hotwire Cutting, Robotic Clay 3D Printing, Robotic Metal Bending, etc.)

Immersive Design, Parametric Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assisted Design, Algorithm-based Design, Generative Design, Topology Optimisation

Human-robot Collaboration, AR-assisted Robotic Fabrication

Assistant Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2024 to Present

Teaching Assistant, University of Liverpool, 2020 to 2024

Design Technology Researcher, SoomeenHahm Design Ltd. UK, 2022 to 2024

Augmented Reality Technical Support, FabLab Ltd. UK, 2022

PhD in Architecture, University of Liverpool, 2019 to 2024

Research Assistant, Southern Denmark University, 2020

MArch in Architectural Design, University College London, 2017 to 2018

ARC301 Architectural Technology

ARC102 Small Scale Architectural Design

ARC105 Small Space Design

2022, Best Paper Award of ASCAAD 2022, the ASCAAD 2022 Conference, Beirut Arab University, Debbieh, Lebanon. Song, Y., Agkathidis, A., & Koeck, R. (2022). Augmented Masonty Design: a design method using Augmented Reality (AR) for customised bricklaying design algorithms. In the 10^th Arab Society for Computer Aided Architecture Design Conference (ASCAAD 2022), Beirut Arab University, Debbieh, Lebanon, pp. 703-713.

2020, Best Paper Award of eCAADe 2020 - Ivan Petrovic Prize, the eCAADe 2020 Conference, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Song, Y. (2020). BloomShell: Augmented Reality for the assembly and real-time modification of complex curved structure. In the 38^th  Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2020), Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, pp. 345-354. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.1.345