Scott Mandelbaum

Scott Mandelbaum has worked in the engineering and media development fields since 2015. Scott began their career as a Neuroscience Lab Researcher at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine, where they performed brain surgery, designed a cage for wireless animal tracking, and assessed acoustic noise effects on data. In 2017, they joined the MIT Media Lab as an Engineer and Media Developer of the SPRING Project, where they designed and machined modules to track transfer of learning and isolate fine motor movement difficulties in children. In 2018, they began working at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) on a project involving Modular Robots Via Soft, Vacuum-Driven, Reconfigurable Artificial Muscles. Scott created vacuum-driven muscles, each built with four identical bending actuators to generate 9 degrees of freedom. In the same year, they also began working at Puffin Innovations as an Engineering Consultant and Strategic Advisor, where they were hired to guide operational strategy and determine the optimal technological path towards smart devices capable of adapting based on user behavior for hands-free human-computer interfacing technology. Most recently, in 2021, they began working at Amogy, where they designed ammonia decomposition reactors and coordinated manufacturing, as well as worked on in-house fabrication needs, including machining and welding of components. Scott also led testing and analysis of adsorbent sub-system.

Scott Mandelbaum attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2016 to 2021, where they earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to that, they attended Columbia University from 2015 to 2016, studying Calculus 1 and Calculus 3. In 2017, they obtained a Human Subject Research certification from the CITI Program, a division of BRANY.