Professor Georgakopoulos organized and chaired the 2016 Workshop on Origami Design for Integration of Self-Assembling Systems for Engineering Innovation (ODISSEI). 

The ODISSEI program is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) and a number of projects were co-funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Workshop attendees and presenters were from academia, industry and government. Also, renowned origami artists participated. The workshop was held on Feb. 11-12, 2016 at Florida International University, Miami, FL.