Service/Outreach

• Federal Funding Opportunities for Junior Investigators in System Science and Control Engineering–Special Session at ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) 2016: served as organizer of this special session to bring together program officers from federal agencies in a focused panel on funding opportunities for junior investigators in the field of dynamic systems and controls.

• Open-learning initiative: instructor and designer of “ME 233: Advanced Control Systems II, Spring 2014”—the first graduate-level course in System and Controls that was fully webcasted for free to YouTube and iTunes-U at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley.

• International benchmark on adaptive regulation: an international benchmark on adaptive regulation from 2012-2013 (lead by Dr. Ioan D. Landau and supported by European Control Association). The benchmark provides an up-to-date scientific evaluation of available procedures applicable in the fields of active vibration control and noise control.

Reviewer for Journal, Conference, and Book Proposals

Asian Journal of Control; ASME Journal of Dynamical System, Measurement, and Controls; Automatica; Control Engineering Practice; Electronics; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; IEEE Transactions on Magnetics; IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics; IET Control Theory & Applications; International Journal of Control; International Journal of Dynamics and Control; Journal of Vibration and Acoustics; Mechatronics; Springer

ASME Annual Conference on Information Storage and Process Systems (ISPS); ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC); ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference; IEEE American Control Conference (ACC); IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC); IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control; IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM); International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress; IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID); International Conference on Complex Systems Engineering

Organized Conference Sessions

“Modeling and Control of Advanced Manufacturing Processes,” IEEE American Control Conference, 2018

“Vibrations,” ASME DSCC, 2017

“Federal Funding Opportunities for Junior Investigators in Systems and Controls,” ASME DSCC, 2016

“Motion and Vibration Control Applications,” ASME DSCC, 2016

“Mechatronics and Controls in Advanced Manufacturing,” ASME DSCC, 2016

“Mechatronics and Precision Manufacturing,” ISCIE/ASME ISFA, 2016

“Control of Mechatronic Systems,” ASME DSCC, 2015

“Estimation and Tracking,” ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2015

“Drilling Automation,” ASME DSCC, 2015

“Physical Human-Robot Interactions,” ASME DSCC, 2014

Sessions Chaired at Technical Conferences

“Disturbance and Vibration Compensation,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2017

“Control Systems,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2017

“Sensing and Information Extraction I,” International Symposium of Flexible Automation, 2016

“Control of Manufacturing Systems,” American Control Conference, 2016

“Control Applications I,” American Control Conference, 2016

“Multiagent Network Systems 2,” ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2015

“Vibration Control,” ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2014

Outreach Events and Community Service

“Hands-on 3D Printing” Workshop for Joule Fellows Program 2016 – A half-day workshop for K-14 teachers

Invited judge of the 2016 Connecticut Invention Convention, Apr. 30 2016

Invited Presentation at ASME Night, Hartford, CT, Apr. 5 2016

Undergraduate Research Exhibition: UCONN Fall Frontiers Poster Exhibition, Storrs, Oct. 26, 2016

Introduction to Engineering: Lab Tour for freshmen, Storrs, Nov. & Dec. 2015

Faculty Advisor, UConn School of Engineering Open House, 09/14/2014, 10/18/2015, 04/9/2016

Mechanical Engineering Lab Demo for Prospective Graduate Student, Storrs, CT, Mar. 2015

Talks

• “From Cooking to Advanced Manufacturing—Controls, Automation, and Beyond,” in UCONN Mechanical Engineering Open House, Sept. 14, 2014

• “Manufacture Automation and Control Systems,” in UCONN Industry Open House, Nov. 5, 2014

• “High Precision Control in Advanced Manufacturing,” in Mechanical Engineering External Advisory Board Meeting, UC Berkeley, Oct. 25, 2013

• “Disturbance Observer Based Loop Shaping at Selective Frequencies,” in the 1st International Workshop between University of California Berkeley and Keio University, UC Berkeley, Feb. 2012

University Service

Chair: UConn ME Ph.D. Qualify Exam Committee (Systems), 2016-Present

Member: UConn Graduate Admission Committee, 2015-Present

Member: UConn ME Ph.D. Qualify Exam Committee (Mathematics), Spring & Summer 2015

Member: UConn ME Ph.D. Qualify Exam Committee (Systems), 2015-Present

UConn Graduate Faculty, 2014-Present

Reviewer: UConn IDEA Grant, 2015

Professional Societies

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) member, 2009-Present

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) member, 2010-Present

SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) member, 2015-Present

SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) member, 2016-Present