2. Employment & activities

Professional employment

• Visiting Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Texas A&M University (2019 - Present)

• Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the National University of Malaysia (2014 - Present)

• Full Professor at the Institute of Space Science at the National University of Malaysia (2013 - 2014)

• Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Space Science at the National University of Malaysia (2013 - 2014)

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (2003 - 2012)

• Research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997 - 2002)

Memberships

• Editorial board member for the International Journal of Structural Changes in Solids

• Singapore Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Society

• Associateship of the City and Guilds Institute of London

Activities

• Committee member for International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (2004)

• Co-editor for a special issue in the International Journal of Plasticity (2010)

• Guest editor for a special issue in Advances in Mathematical Physics (2012)

• Advisory committee for the International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (2012,2014)