Professional Services

Editorship

• Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, since November 2011.
• Guest editor, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering:  I was the sole guest editor for a special issue section entitled, “Mechanics and Models of Pavement Materials.” – published in September 2013. I have invited potential authors to submit papers on advanced material modeling for analysis of pavement distresses, advanced mechanics of pavement materials, numerical techniques for improved design and analysis of pavements, and multiscale and micromechanical modeling to this journal.
• Guest editor, MPDI Applied Science special issue on Sustainable Infrastructure Materials Special Issue: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/paving_technologies
• Guest editor, Hindawi Advances in Materials Science and Engineering special issue on Advanced Pavement Materials for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructurehttps://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/si/361317/
• Guest editor, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering: asone guest editor for a special issue section entitled, “ Special Issue on Advanced Pavement Technologies.”

Professional Committee Member

• Subcommittee Chair, ACI 55OC, Recycled Materials - Unbounded RCAs
• Committee Chair, World Transport Congress (WTC), on aggregates and base/subbase materials, 2018
• Organizing Committee Members of Annual Workshop, International Association of Chinese Infrastructure Professionals (IACIP), 2016-present
• Secretary and founding member, Asian-American Pavement Engineers Association (AAPEA), 2015
• Committee Member, ASCE Granular Materials Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute, 2010-present
• Committee Member, ASCE Pavement Mechanics Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute, 2014-present
• Committee Member, ASCE Bituminous Materials Committee, Construction Institute, 2011-present
• ASCE Committee Member, Pavement Committee, Geo-Institute, 2011 - present
• Committee Member, ASCE Geophysics Committee, Geo-Institute, 2011 - present
• Committee member, ACI Committee 201, Durability of Concrete, 2016 - present
• Committee member, ACI Committee 555, Concrete with Recycled materials, 2016 - present
• Committee member, ACI Committee 236, Material Science, 2016 - present

University and Department Committee Member

• University Committee Member, Faculty Distinguished Service Award Committee (2014-2017)
• Department Committee Member, CEE Graduate Research Committee, fall 2015-spring 2017
• Department Teaching and Research Software Committee Chair, fall 2017-fall 2018
• Department Space Committee Chair, fall 2018-present

Technical Review

• Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE
• Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE
• Mechanics of Materials, Elsevier
• Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Elsevier
• Construction and Building materials, Elsevier
• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Elsevier
• International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Taylor & Francis
• International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE
• Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
• Geotechnical Special Publication (GSP), ASCE
• ASCE GeoFrontier
• International Journal of Solids and Structures, Elsevier
• Material and Design, Elsevier
• Acta Mechanica, Springer
• Journal of Clean Production, Elsevier
• Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Elsevier
• Applied Science, MDPI
• Journal of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM
• Fuel, Elsevier
• Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering, Springer
• Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Elsevier

Grant Review

• ACS PRF Grant Program review, 2018
• FY 2016 Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research (NEUP/NEET/NSUF) Funding
• FY 2017 Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research (NEUP/NEET/NSUF) Funding
• NSF review panel, Structure Materials and Mechanics (SMM) program 2011, 2013& 2014
• NSF review panel, Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering program, 2013& 2014
•  NSF review panel, Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) Program and SBIR-Construction Material program, 2014
• Electronic NSF proposal Reviewer, CBET Environmental Sustainability program and Career Proposal in Material Processing and Engineering program, 2018
• Electronic NSF proposal Reviewer, DOE Nuclear Research (NEUP/NEET/NSUF) Funding program, 2015, 2016 and 2017
• Louisiana Board of Regents' Research Competitiveness Subprogram, 2012

Conference and Workshop Organization

• Session Chair, 16th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM), Pennsylvania State University, PA, 2010,
• Session Moderator, 2010 ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Los Angeles.
• Session Chair, 2014 ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Hamilton, CA.
• Session Chair, IACIP Annual Workshop 2016.
• Session Moderator, ACI spring convention 2017.
• Session Chair, World Transport Congress 2018.
• Session Chair, ASCE EMI conference 2021