Professional Service
Editorial Activities
Associate/Guest Editor
Associate Editor, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2018 -- present.
Review Editor of the Editorial Board of Water and Critical Zone, Journal of Frontiers in Water, February 2019 -- present.
Guest Editor, special issue on "Machine Learning Applications in Petroleum Industries and Geothermal Systems," Energies, 2020 -- (May) 2024.
Associate Editor, Journal of Vibration Testing and System Dynamics, 2017 -- 2018.
Editorial Board
Early Career Researcher Board, Multifunctional Materials (IOP Science), 2019 -- 2022.
Reviewer Activities
Journal Reviewer
Advanced in Water Resources, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Applied Mathematical Modeling, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics Reviews, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Communications in Computational Physics, Composite Structures, Composites Science and Technology, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Engineering Computations, Environmental Science & Technology, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics, International Journal of Engineering Science, International Journal of Multiphase Flows, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Journal of Vibration and Control, Meccanica, Mechanics Research Communications, Numerical Algorithms, Numerische Mathematik, Signal Processing, SoftwareX, Thin-Walled Structures, Transport in Porous Media, Tribology International.
Proposal Reviewer
Army Research Office (ARO)
DOE Nuclear Energy University Program
DOE SBIR/STTR Phase I
NSF Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing (CMMI) and Hydrological Sciences program
NSF ad hoc reviewer: Material Processing and Manufacturing, Mechanics of Materials, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Programs [HBCU-UP].
Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD-DR) program, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
South Africa National Research Foundation (NRF)
Competitive research grants program for Water Resources Research Institute of UNC.
Symposia Organization
[M16] Machine learning for subsurface energy, hydrology, and earth Sciences, Organizers: M. K. Mudunuru (PNNL), K. B. Nakshatrala (UH), T. Gunda (SNL), L. H. Rodriguez (LBNL), M. Newcomer (LBNL), S. Foreman (ANL), B. Ahmed (LANL), S. Karra, (PNNL), and M. Halappanavar (PNNL), 17th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 23--27, 2023.
[M15] Machine learning and reduced-order models for complex systems, Organizers: M. K. Mudunuru, S. Karra, V. Vesselinov, J. N. Reddy, and K. B. Nakshatrala , 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, New York, July 22--27, 2018.
[M14] Advances in forward and inverse modeling of coupled Thermo-Hydro-Geomechanical-Chemical processes in porous media, Organizers: D. Bau, S. Karra, S. Teatini, and K. B. Nakshatrala, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14--18, 2015.
[M13] Modeling flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), S. Karra, and H. Viswanathan, 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Diego, California, July 26--30, 2015.
[M12] Mathematical and numerical modeling of degradation of materials and structures, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), D. Z. Turner, K. J. Willam, and R. Ballarini, 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Diego, California, July 26--30, 2015.
[M11] Continuum scale modeling of flow and reactive transport in porous media, Organizers: S. Karra, and K. B. Nakshatrala, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 15--19, 2014.
[M10] Continuum scale modeling of flow and reactive transport in porous media, Organizers: S. Karra, and K. B. Nakshatrala, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 9--13, 2013.
[M9] Mathematical and numerical modeling of degradation of materials and structures, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), R. Duddu, J. N. Reddy, and K. J. Willam, 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 22--25, 2013.
[M8] Flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), D. Z. Turner, M. Martinez, and S. Karra, 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 22--25, 2013.
[M7] Recent advances in theoretical, numerical, and experimental methods in flow and transport in porous media, Organizers: S. Karra (Chair), K. B. Nakshatrala, A. Cortis, and S. Anwar, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 3--7, 2012.
[M6] Multifunctional composite materials, Organizers: M. Li (Chair), K. B. Nakshatrala, C. Vipulanandan, and D. Jack, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Houston, November 9--15, 2012.
[M5] Environmental effects and fatigue of engineering structures / materials, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), and K. J. Willam, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Houston, November 9--15, 2012.
[M4] Flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), D. Z. Turner, M. Martinez, and S. Karra, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Houston, November 9--15, 2012.
[M3] Flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), and D. Z. Turner, 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 25--28, 2011.
[M2] Emerging computational methods for transient non-linear problems with multiple temporal scales, Organizers: G. Hulbert, A. Lew, K. B. Nakshatrala, K. C. Park, A. Prakash (Chair), 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 25--28, 2011.
[M1] Transport in heterogeneous porous media, Organizers: K. B. Nakshatrala (Chair), and D. Z. Turner, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Vancouver, Canada, November 12--18, 2010.
Community and Public Service
High school teachers
The following high school teachers worked during a summer under my mentorship. During this period, these teachers developed teaching modules for their classes. These visits were supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program.
Armando VITAL, Math teacher at Veterans Memorial High School, Brownsville Independent School District, June 2013.
Sanjay GUPTA, teacher at Pasadena Independent School District, June 2012.