Professional Activities

Institutional services

  • Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME), fall 2015 semester - May 2019

  • Chair of Mechanical Engineering (ME) program committee, fall 2014 semester - May 2019

  • Chair of MSME application review committee, spring 2016 semester – May 2019

International society founder

  • Founder and Council Member of the International Society of Digital Medicine, since June 2016

Conference committee

  • TPC member, 2020 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science July 25th-26th, 2020, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

  • Program Co-Chair, 2019 3rd International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (CCEAI 2019), Jan. 24-26, 2019/ Los Angeles, USA.

  • Planning committee of the International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA), the 12th Energy Harvesting Workshop (EHW), the 1st Annual Energy Harvesting Society Meeting (AEHSM), September 11 – 14, 2017, Falls Church, VA, USA.

  • Member of conference committee, 17th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 25-28, 2017

  • Program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Aircraft Utility Systems (AUS2016), October 10-12, 2016, Beijing, China.

  • Program Committee for 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems in 2016 (IEEE-CYBER 2016), Chengdu, China, June 19-22, 2016.

  • Technical program committee (TPC) of EEECS 2016, the 1st International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science, January 20-22, 2016, Phuket, Thailand.

  • Program committee of 8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (SI‐SOCO‐CISIS‐2015), Jun 15, 2015 - Jun 17, 2015, Burgos, Spain

  • ASME Energy Harvesting Technical Committee since Sept. 2013

  • 2012 International Conference on Communications and Information Processing (ICCIP2012), Aveiro, Portugal, March 7 - 11, 2012

  • 2012 International Conference on Electronics and Optoelectronics (ICEOE 2012), Shenyang, Liaoning China, July 27 - 29, 2012

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Journal editor

  • Guest editor: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence 2018 (CCEAI 2018)

  • Editor board: International Journal of Mechatronics and Automotive Research (IJMAR)

  • Editorial board: Journal of Digital Medicine

  • Editor: Gavin Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology, Gavin Publishers

  • Guest editor: Sensors & Transducers journal (ISSN: 2306-8515, e-ISSN 1726-5479), International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA)

  • Editorial board: Journal of Modeling, Simulation, Identification, and Control

Invited conference session chair/moderator

  • Session ThO2O3: Nano/Molecular Sensors, Actuators, and Systems II, 17th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 25-28, 2017

  • Session SuA4: Mechatronics I Session, June 5, 2016 (Sunday), 10:45 - 12:25, 11th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2016), Hefei, China, 5-7 June 2016

  • Session 1-1: Carbon nanotubes, ASME 2013 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Snowbird, Utah, Sept. 16-18, 2013

  • Session 10-IPCV: Topics in Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition 2012 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12), sub-conference of the 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'12), Las Vegas, NV, July 16-19, 2012

  • Session 16-IPCV: Topics in Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition, International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12), sub-conference of the 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'12), Las Vegas, NV, July 16-19, 2012

  • Session Topic Category: Engineering/Engineering Technology, Session Time: Session 2, Th. 11:40-1:00 pm, the 26th Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2012), Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, March 29-31, 2012

  • Session Topic Category: Engineering/Engineering Technology, Session Time: Session 7, Fri. 1:10-2:30 pm, the 26th Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2012), Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, March 29-31, 2012

  • 2011 International Conference on Electronics and Optoelectronics (ICEOE 2011), Dalian, Liaoning, China, from July 29 to 31, 2011

  • Session: Sensors I, the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2010), Harbin, Heilongjiang, China from June 20 to June 23, 2010

  • Session: Sensors II, the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2010), Harbin, Heilongjiang, China from June 20 to June 23, 2010

  • Session: Visual Servo and Tracking, the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (Robio 2009), Guilin, Guangxi, China, Dec. 19-23, 2009

  • Session: Analysis and design of mechatronic systems, the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2009), Changchun, Jilin, China from Aug. 9-12, 2009

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Book reviewer

  • Handbook of Food Bioengineering, Elsevier S&T Books, Feb 2016

  • Kinematics, Dynamics and Design of Machinery, 2nd Edition, Waldron and Kinzel, J. Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN-13: 978-0471244172, Sept. 26 – Oct. 10, 2011

  • Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, 4th Edition, by Uicker and Pennock, May 2009

Reviewer for journals and conferences

  • 2019 The Second International Workshop on Environment and Geoscience (IWEG 2019) July 17-19, 2019 in Hangzhou, China

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

  • Proceedings of IEEE

  • 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), in Montreal, Canada, May 20-24, 2019.

  • Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

  • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

  • 5th SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference, NAMRC 45, LA, USA

  • Open Journal of Cardiatic Research

  • IET Image Processing

  • Microsystem Technologies, Springer Journals Editorial Office

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

  • RSC Advances, The Royal Society of Chemistry

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

  • Journal of Information Display

  • Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering

  • Special Issues - SOCO-CISIS 2015, the 8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (SI‐SOCO‐CISIS‐2015), Jun 15, 2015 - Jun 17, 2015, Burgos, Spain.

  • 6th Annual IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER 2016), June 19-22, 2016, Chengdu, China.

  • 11th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2016), June 5 – 7, 2016, Hefei, China

  • Logic Journal of the IGPL, Special Issue

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

  • Scientific Reports

  • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids

  • High Performance Polymers

  • Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics

  • Mechanism and Machine Theory (MAMT)

  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

  • Advanced Robotics

  • Robotica

  • ITS America's 23rd Annual Meeting & Exposition, Gaylord Opryland Convention Center - Nashville, Tennessee, April 22 - April 24, 2013

  • 26th Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2012), Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, March 29-31, 2012

  • Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD) in Minneapolis, MN, USA

  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22, 2010

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Proposal reviewer

  • University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Informatics (UMII) Seed Grant Program

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)

Membership in professional societies

  • Founder and Council Member of the International Society of Digital Medicine

  • Duluth Medical Research Institute (DMRI)

  • American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

  • The International Society for Modeling & Simulation (SCS)

  • The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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