Service

Leadership

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

• Member of the AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Technical Committee

  • Contribute to the organization of the AIAA SciTech and Aviation Forums.

  • Technical discipline chair for Aviation 2025 Forum

  • Deputy technical discipline chair for SciTech 2025 Forum

• Technical session chair/co-chair

  • Aviation 2024: ACD-12 (eVTOL Vehicle Design and Analysis)

  • SciTech 2024: MDO-03.

  • Aviation 2023: MST-01, MST-05, MDO-07.

  • SciTech 2023: MST-04.

  • SciTech 2021: ACD-04.

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SuperComputing)

• SuperComputing 2024

  • Vice-chair of Student Cluster Competition (Students@SC committee)

• SuperComputing 2023

  • Early career committee member (Inclusivity committee).

  • Reproducibility challenge committee member (Students@SC committee).

• SuperComputing 2022

  • Early career committee member (Inclusivity committee).

  • Vice-chair of IndySCC (Students@SC committee).

    • Informational paper at the PEARC23 conference on Scaling up the IndySCC. 

  • Student programming committee member (Students@SC committee).

•  SuperComputing 2021

  •  Co-chair of a new education-focused track of the student cluster competition – the IndySCC, with an emphasis on lowering entry barriers and inclusivity.

    • Pedagogical research paper at PEARC22 conference on IndySCC. 

Campus Champions

• Campus champion for the University of California San Diego

  • NSF ACCESS Campus Champion allocation (~750,000 core hours).

  • Informational paper at PEARC23 conference Towards Developing a Guide to Choosing National HPC Resources.

Peer Review

Journals

• Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

• AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems

• Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies

• Engineering Computations

• Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Conferences

• AIAA SciTech Forum

• AIAA Aviation Forum

• ACM/IEEE SuperComputing Student Cluster Competition

Academic Service

University of California San Diego

• Mentoring students

  • Rajashekhar Swaminathan [M.S. thesis; advisor: John Hwang].

  • Huaiyu Hou [M.S. thesis; advisor: John Hwang].

  • Mentored two undergraduate students, Omar Ibrahim Alfonseca Navarrete and Ernesto Montano Alvares, from Latin America as part of the ENLACE Program in Summer 2023 to expose them to research methods and effective communication, teamwork, and time management skills.

• University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) 2023

  • Undergraduate poster competition judge.

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Mentoring students

  • David Solano [Ph.D. thesis; advisor: Dimitri Mavris]

• Institute Graduate Curriculum Committee (IGCC) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Student representative of the Student Government Association at the committee.