Professional Activities

Invited Talks

• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston, TX, Feb, 2025
• Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Miami, FL, Sept 27, 2024
• Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Apr 11, 2024
• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, Mar. 2024
• Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS), Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, Nov 3, 2023
• Tensegrity Robotics Workshop, The 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, Oct 5, 2023
• Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Mar. 2023
• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Feb. 2023
• Department of Mechanical Engineering, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, Apr 6, 2022
• College of Engineering, Peking University, Mar 8, 2022
• College of Civil Engineering, Shaoxing University, Feb 26, 2022
• Halliburton Company, Houston, TX, Sept 30, 2021
• Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., Houston, TX, Sept 9, 2021
• Soft Robotics Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Jul. 2021
• Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Jul. 2021

Services

• Aerospace Advanced Materials And Structures Committee (ASCE), 2024 - Present
• Editorial Board Member, Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, 2023 -Present
  
• Editorial Committee, ASCE Texas Section (TexASCE), 2021 - Present

Outreach

• Organizer, IASS Annual Symposium, Oct 2025
• Organizer, Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), Tensegrity Mini-Symposium, May 2025
• News and Media
      - #VdoorLocksmith Show - Gibson Reports, TX, Sept 9, 2022
      - PYHS.org, Sept. 21 2020
      - VOA, Jul. 26 2019
      - TAMU Engineering News, Feb. 5, 2019
      - The Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2018
• Exhibitor, Open Labs for Reunion Visitors, UKY, Aug 15, 2024
• Judge, Texas A&M University Student Research Week (SRW), 2021 - 2022
• Advisor, SpaceLex (the University of Kentucky’s Rocketry and Propulsion Team)
• Advisor, Wuhan Foreign Languages School (Public High School), 2014 - 2015
    - Led the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team to the National Championship
• Mentor, Lafayette High School (Pre-Engineering Program), Lexington, KY
      - Alex Arber, May 2024 - Present
      - Siddharth Sundar, Sept. - Dec. 2023
• Mentor, Exemplar Scholars Program, Lexington Catholic High School, KY. Sept. 2024- Present