Professional services (selected)
Service as Officer to Professional Societies
Secretary (2024), Conference Chair (2025), Vice Chair (2026), ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Division (DSCD) Technical Committee on Mechatronics
Conference Program Representative, ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Division (DSCD), 2022-2023
Secretary and Student Liaison, ASME Comstock Section, 2021 - present
Editorial Services
Guest Editor (with Drs. J. Guo, Z. Chen, Q. Wang, L. Wen, and J. Zhao), International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, special issue on Flexible Mechatronics for Robotics (Publication: Volume 5, issue 3, September 2021)
Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020-2023)
Associate Editor, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2025, 2026)
Associate Editor, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2026)
Associate Editor, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2020-2023)
Associate Editor, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020-2022, 2025)
Associate Editor, American Control Conference (ACC 2020-2023)
Associate Editor, International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2019)
Associate Editor and Conference Editorial Board member, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2019, 2020, 2023)
Operating Committee of Conferences
Invited and Special Sessions Chair, Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC 2026)
Local Arrangement Chair, Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC 2023)
Organizer of Conference Sessions
Co-organizer (with Drs. Vishesh Vikas, Xiaobo Tan, and Haghshenas-Jaryani, Mahdi), invited session on “Modeling, Control and Estimation of Soft Material and Continuum Systems,” American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2026
Co-organizer (with Drs. Kira Barton, Hao Su, Ellen Mazumdar, Vishesh Vikas, Fangzhou Xia, Binghan He, Qiang Zhang, Feng Han, and Shan Zuo), invited session on “Mechatronics,” American Control Conference, Denver, CO, 2025
Conference Program/Organizing Committees
Program Committee Members, American Control Conference (ACC 2023, 2024)
Program Committee Members, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2018)
Conference Session Chair/Co-Chair
2024 American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, (session WeA04 RI: Modeling, Estimation, and System Identification)
2023 Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference, Lake Tahoe, NV, (session WePMT6: Modeling and Validation I, session ThAMT2: Mechatronic Systems
2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (session TuA03 Flexible manipulator I)
2021 Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference, Austin, TX, (session MoAT4: Soft, Space, and Marine Robotics)
Reviewer for Funding Agencies
NASA Nevada Space Grant (twice)
Panelist, NASA Space Technology Payload Challenge (NASA TechLeap Prize)
Panelist, NSF Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) program, NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program, NSF Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) program, NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP)
Ad hoc reviewer, NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program
Institutional Services (selected)
Coordinator, UNR Mechanical Engineering Department Seminar, 2021-2024
Coordinator, UNR Mechanical Engineering Department Website, 2025 - present
Faculty Advisor, ASME Student Club at UNR, 2021 - present