Professional Activities

Talks

• The ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Portland, OR, Nov. 17–21, 2024
• The 58th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar), Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 27-30, 2024
• The Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference (EMI/PMC), The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, IL, May 28-31, 2024
• The 19th ASCE ASD Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environment (Earth & Space), Miami, FL, Apr. 17, 2024
• Invited by Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Apr. 11, 2024
• Invited by Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, Mar. 2024
• The AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, FL, Jan. 8-12, 2024
• The 2023 Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) Annual Meeting, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, Nov. 3, 2023
• The 2023 Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 9, 2023
• The 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Tensegrity Robotics Workshop, Detroit, MI, Oct. 5, 2023
• Invited by Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Mar. 2023
• Invited by Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Feb. 2023
• The 2022 Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), College Station, TX, Oct. 17, 2022
• The Annual Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS 2022) & 13th Asian-Pacific Conference on Shell and Spatial Structures (APCS 2022), Beijing, Sept. 19, 2022
• Invited by #VdoorLocksmith Show - Gibson Reports, TX, Sept. 9, 2022
• Invited by Department of Mechanical Engineering, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, Apr. 6, 2022
• Invited by International Forum of Excellent Young Talents in Engineering Sciences, Peking University, Mar. 8, 2022
• Invited by College of Civil Engineering, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, Feb. 26, 2022
• Invited by Halliburton Company, Houston, TX, Sept. 30, 2021
• Invited by Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., Houston, TX, Sept. 9, 2021
• International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Annual Symposium and Spacial Structures Conference, Surrey, UK, Aug. 23, 2021
• Invited by Soft Robotics Research Center at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Jul. 2021
• Invited by Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Jul. 2021
• The ASCE Earth & Space Conference, A Virtual Conference, Apr. 19, 2021
• International Conference on Composite Structures 23rd & International Conference on Mechanics of Composites 6th (ICCS23 & MECHCOMP6). Porto, Portugal. Sept. 3, 2020
• AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, Orlando, FL, Sept. 17, 2018

News

• NASA Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge
  • TAMU Engineering News, Jan. 25, 2021

• Building A Growable Habitat for Sustainable Life in Space
  • PYHS.org, Sept. 21 2020
  • VOA, Jul. 26 2019
  • TAMU Engineering News & Video, Feb. 5, 2019
  • The Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2018

Demos

• IROS Conference, Detroit, MI, Oct. 5, 2023
  • Tensegrity Robotics Workshop
• NIAC Symposium, Huntsville, AL, Sept. 24, 2019
  • Lunar-Polar Propellant Mining Outpost (LPMO): Affordable Exploration and Industrialization

Poster

• The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Detroit, MI, Oct. 5, 2023
  • Tensegrity Actuated Origami Systems for Deployable Aerospace Structures
• NASA’s 2021 Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge. Hampton, VA, Sept. 23, 2021
  • DREAMS: Drilling and Extraction Automated System
• TAMU Physics & Engineering Festival. College Station, TX, Apr. 10, 2021
  • Tensegrity System Research Snapshots at Land, Air, and Space Robotics (LASR) Laboratory
• TAMU Physics & Engineering Festival. College Station, TX, Apr. 6, 2019
  • In-Space Construction of a 1g Growable Habitat

Services

• Aerospace Advanced Materials And Structures Committee (ASCE), 2023 - Present
• Guest Editor, Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, 2023 -Present
• Editorial Committee, ASCE Texas Section (TexASCE), 2021 - Present
• Judge, Texas A&M University Student Research Week (SRW), 2021 - 2022
• Advisor, FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), 2014 - 2015

Referee

• Journal: ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, European Journal of Mechanics/A Solids, Engineering Structures, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Acta Astronautica, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics: ASME, Aerospace Science and Technology, Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Aerospace, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Journal of Drainage and Irrigation Machinery Engineering, International Journal of Physical Sciences, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Journal of Engineering Computations, Journal of Data Intelligence, Acta Mechanica et Automatica, ASME Open Journal of Engineering, Experimental Techniques, CRC Press

• Conference: International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), American Control Conference (ACC), AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, AIAA ASCEND, ASCE Earth & Space Conference, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)