Professional Service
STEM Education and Apprenticeship Liaison (SEAL) for Navy (2022-present)
Reviewer for the AIAA Diversity Scholar Program (2024)
"Aerospace Day" at L&N STEM Academy (2023)
Syllabus language recommendations and Honor Code & Course Policy quiz (2022-2023)
Inclusive teaching (2019-present)
MABE DEI Committee (2020-2021)
Faculty panelist for the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (2019)
UM Center for Engineering Diversity & Outreach Mentor (2016-2018)
Leadership Roles
Technical Discipline Chair, AIAA Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments (MVCE), 2024 AIAA SciTech (2024 - present)
Meshing Sub-committee Chair, AIAA Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments (MVCE) Technical Committee (2024 - present)
Co-Principal Investigator, NSF-REU for Advanced Air Mobility at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2024 - present)
Voting Member of AIAA Geometry Modeling for Computational Simulation (GMCS) Committee on Standards (2023 - present)
Meshing Sub-committee Deputy Chair, AIAA Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments (MVCE) Technical Committee (2022 - 2024, Member since 2021)
ABET course coordinator for Aerospace Seminar (AE 201) and Engineering Analysis (ME 391/397)
Guest co-editor for Special Issue in "Machine Learning, Contol, and Optimization in Manufacturing and Industry 4.0", Processes Journal
Deputy Technical Discipline Chair, AIAA Meshing, Visualization, and Computational Environments (MVCE), 2024 AIAA SciTech (2023 - 2024)
Conference session (co)-chair: 2024, 2023, 2020 AIAA SciTech
Mini-symposium (co)-organizer, "Advances in Methods Development for Computational Physics", SIAM AN24
Mini-symposium (co)-organizer, "Mesh Adaptation and Error Estimation for High-Order Methods", 2018 ICOSAHOM
Reviews
Journal manuscripts: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Journal of Computational Physics, AIAA Journal, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Proposals: Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF), Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
Conference manuscripts: AIAA, ASEE
Textbooks: Elsevier, SIAM
Posters: MICDE Symposium (2023), SIAM CSE (2021), Exhibition of Undergraduate Research And Creative Achievement (2021)
Faculty and Student Recruitment
MABE AI/ML and Energy Storage Faculty Search Committee (2022)
Engineering Fundamentals Department Fair (2020-2022)
UM HAIL Interviewer (2019-2022)
UTSI Faculty Search Interviewer (2020)
MABE Blue-Chip Event (2020)
MABE Heat Transfer Faculty Search Committee (2020)
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member
Hang Wang, "Space-Angle Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Radiative Transfer Equation", Mechanical Engineering (2023)
Jared Carnes, "Predictive Capabilities of Laminar-Turbulent Transition Models for Aerodynamics Applications", Aerospace Engineering (2022)
Liet Vo, "Numerical Methods for Stochastic Stokes and Navier-Stokes Equations", Mathematics (2022)
M.S. Thesis Committee Member
Ryan Savery, "A Computational Analysis of Hypersonic Store Separations", Aerospace Engineering (2023)
Forrest Mobley, "Analysis of Turbulent Flow Behavior in Helicopter Rotor Hub Wake Predictions", Aerospace Engineering (2022)
Jared Carnes, "Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment of Laminar-Turbulent Boundary Layer Transition and its Application to Rotorcraft", Aerospace Engineering (2020)
Mentoring
L&N STEM Academy Aviation Genius Hour (2024)
UTK Interdisciplinary Senior Design Faculty Coach (2021)
1794 Scholars Program Mentor (2020)
AIAA Research "Eat, Meet and Greet" Event (2019)
Departmental Committee
Dougherty Engineering Building Emergency Plan, Fifth Floor Warden (2020-present)
MABE Awards Committee (2019-present)