Editorial Services
- Editor-in-Chief, Materials Today, Elsevier, 2016 – present
- Editorial Board Member, Applied Materials Today, Elsevier, 2015 – present
- Editorial Board Member, Materials Today Energy, Elsevier, 2016 – present
- Editorial Board Member, Materials Today Chemistry, Elsevier, 2016 – present
- Editorial Board Member, Materials Today Physics, Elsevier, 2017 – present
- Editorial Board Member, Materials Today Nano, Elsevier, 2017 – present
- Guest Editor (With Junlan Wang), Special issue on “Nanomechanics and Nanostructructured Multifunctional Materials: Experiments, Theories, and Simulations”, Journal of Nanomaterials, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2008
- Editor (with Erica Lilleodden, Brad Boyce, Lei Lu, Peter Derlet, Daniel Weygand, Ju Li, Michael Uchic, Eric Le Bourhis), “Mechanical Behavior at Small Scale – Experiments and Modeling”, MRS Symposium Proceedings, Volume 1224, 2010
Conferences
- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE06), Session Organizer and Co-Chair, “Nanostructured Materials”, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2006
- ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference (McMat 2007), Session Organizer and Co-Chair, “MEMS/NEMS Devices: integration and reliability”, Austin, TX, June 2007
- TMS Materials Science & Technology 2007 (MS&T07), Session Organizer and Co-Chair, “Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Micro/Nanodevices”, Detroit, MI, Sep. 2007
- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE07), Symposium Organizer and Chair, “Symposia on the Fundamentals and Applications of Sensor and Sensing Engineering and Biology”, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2007
- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE07), Session Organizer and Co-Chair, “Nanostructured Materials”, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2007
- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE08), Topic Co-Organizer, “Multifunctional Materials and Material Systems”, Boston, MA, Nov. 2008
- Tsinghua-Rice Nanomaterials Workshop, Co-organizer, Beijing, China, April 2009
- European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT09), Symposium Organizer, “Graphene”, Glasgow, UK, Sept. 2009
- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE09), Symposium Co-Organizer, “High Temperature Material Behaviors”, Lake Buena Vista, FL, Nov. 2009
- MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium Lead Organizer, “FF Mechanical Behavior of Nanomaterials: Experiments and Modeling”, Boston, MA, Dec. 2009
- TMS MS&T Fall Meeting, Symposium Lead Organizer, “Mechanical Behavior of Low Dimensional Materials”, Houston, TX, Oct. 2010
- Rice-Tsinghua Nanomaterials Workshop, Lead-organizer, Houston, TX, Sept. 2010
- TMS Annual Meeting, Session Chair, San Diego, CA, March, 2011
- ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, Session Chair, Chicago, IL, 2011
- Tsinghua-Rice Nanomaterials Workshop, Co-organizer, Beijing, China, July 2011
Professional Societies
- American Society for Materials (ASM International)
- The Minerals, Metal & Materials Society (TMS)
- Materials Research Society (MRS)
- American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME)