Professional Activities

Journal Editor & Editor Board

  • 05/2008-to date: Editor-in-Chief, Executive Editor and Managing Editor of Int. Journal of Applied Mechanics (IJAM)
  • 2010 Guest Editor for special issue of Computational Materials Science (COMMAT)
  • 2010-to date: Editor of Int. Journal of Aerospace and Lightweight Structures (IJALS)
  • 2011-to date: Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Computational Materials Science and Engineering (IJCMSE)
  • 01/2007-to date: Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Applied Mechanics (CJAM)
  • 10/2009-to date: Editorial Board Member of Int. Journal of Computational Methods (IJCM)
  • 2010-to date: Editorial Board Member of Multidisciplinary Modeling in Materials and Structures (MMMS)

Organizing Conferences

  • Chairman of 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Applied Mechanics (ISFAM2018). 8-11 Aug. 2018 Trondheim, Norway.
  • Chairman of Mini-symposium for Computational Mechanics of Soft Matter and Machines, WCCM XIII and PANACM II, July 22-27, 2018 New York.
  • Co-Chairman of Symposium of Multiscale and multiophysics modeling and simulation methods 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM18) 4-9 June. 2018 Chicago, USA.
  • Chairman of International Symposium on Safety and Mechanics of Nuclear Structures (ISSMNS2017) 2017. 21-24 Sep. 2017 Xi’an, China.
  • Chairman of 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Applied Mechanics (ISFAM2016). 1-4 Dec. 2016 Melbourne, Australia.
  • Chairman of Mini-symposium for Computational Mechanics of Soft Matter and Machines, WCCM XII and APCOM VI, July 24-29, 2016, Seoul, Korea.
  • Organizing Committee Member of 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI), July 24-29, 2016, Seoul, Korea.
  • Chairman of 2nd International Symposium on Frontiers in Applied Mechanics (ISFAM2015). 8-10 Nov. 2015 Xi’an China.
  • Co-Chairman of Symposium S, Computational Materials Science and Engineering, ICMAT2015& IUMRS-ICA2015, 28 June-3 July 2015 Singapore.
  • Chairman of International Symposium on Frontiers in Applied Mechanics (ISFAM2014). 4-7 Dec. 2014 Singapore.
  • Organizing Committee Member: APACM Thematic Conference & IACM Special Interest Conference COMPSAFE 2014 Computational Engineering and Science for Safety and Environmental Problems，Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan
  • Chairman of Organizing Committee: 5th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics 2013 (APCOM2013), SINGAPORE
  • Organizing Committee Member: 2009 Fall Workshop & Conference: Advanced Image-Based Measurement Methods: Recent Developments and Applications in Engineering and Medicine, SC USA.
  • Organizing Committee Member: 9th International Conference on Analysis of Discontinuous Deformation (ICADD-9), SINGAPORE 2010.
  • Organizing Committee Member: The 4th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2012), 25 – 27 November 2012, Gold Coast, Australia.
  • General Organizing Committee of ICMAT2007, ICMAT2009, ICMAT2011.

Professional Memberships

  • 12/2016-To date: General Secretary of Association of Applied Mechanics (IAAM) (registered president)
  • 06/2014-To date: Executive Committee Member of Association of Shaanxi Province Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  • 07/2012-To date: General Committee Member of Association of Asia-Pacific Computational Mechanics (APACM)
  • 05/2012-To date: Fellow of Association of Computational Mechanics (SACM)
  • 04/2011-To date: President of Singapore Association of Computational Mechanics (SACM).
  • 11/2010-To date: Executive Committee Member of Mechanics of Soft Materials of ASME, USA
  • 07/2005-To date: Executive Committee Member of Materials Research Society of Singapore(MRS-S).
  • 03/2008-To date: Executive Committee Member of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Society (Singapore) (SingTAM).
  • 11/2010-To date: Member of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • 08/2010-To date: Member of the International Union of Materials Research.
  • 02/2009-To date: Member of Int. Advisory Board of The MIT Center for Computational Engineering (CCE), USA.
  • 06/2003-To date: Member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics.
  • 06/2003-To date: Member of Association for Computational Mechanics, Singapore
  • 03/2009-04/2011: Vice-President of Singapore Association of Computational Mechanics (SACM).

Invitation Talks

  • 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI), Seuoul, Korea. (Semi-Plenary Lecture)
  • 08/2015: The Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2015,  China. (Invited Lecture)
  • 05/2015: Hunan University, China.
  • 05/2015: Xiangtan University, China.
  • 12/2014: The Center for Soft Materials, Zhejiang University, China.
  • 09/2014: Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, China.
  • 08/2014: 2014 Conference of China Computational Mechanics, August 11-12, 2014, Guiyang, China. (Semi-Plenary Lecture).
  • 07/2014: 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), July 20 – 25, 2014, Barcelona, Spain. (Keynote Lecture).
  • 06/2014: School of Aerospace, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
  • 06/2014: School of Mechanical engineering, Tianjin University, China.
  • 04/2014: Laboratory of Soft & Wet Matter, Hokkaido University, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Japan.
  • 01/2014: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea.
  • 11/2013: Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Canada.
  • 09/2013: Institute of Solid Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China.
  • 05/2013: State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China.
  • 05/2013: Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hohai University, China.
  • 03/2013: School of Civil Engineering and Transportation South China University of Technology, China.
  • 03/2013: Department of Engineering Mechanics, Chongqing University, China.
  • 12/2012: College of Science, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China.
  • 03/2011: Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, USA.
  • 03/2011: Dept. of Civil Engineering, MIT, USA.
  • 09/2010: Dept. of Mechanics, Lanzhou University, China.
  • 03/2010: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,University of Glasgow,UK.
  • 10/2009: School of Civil Engineering,Beijing Jiaotong University,China.
  • 06/2009: School of Aeronauticsand Aerospace,Zhejiang University,China.
  • 12/2008: Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering，Queen’s University, Kingston,Canada
  • 11/2008: Dept. of Maths,University of Glasgow,UK.
  • 10/2007:School of ComputerEngineering and Science,Shanghai University,China.
  • 06/2006:School of Aerospace,Xi’anJiaotong University,China.
  • 03/2006:School of Engineering, Computer Science & Mathematics, University of Exeter,UK.
  • 03/2006: School of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast,UK.
  • 02/2006: Dept. of Maths,University of Glasgow,UK.
  • 01/2006: Centre for Advanced Computations in Engineering Science,NationalUniversityofSingapore.
  • 03/2005: Institute for Computational Sciences (RICS),Tsukuba,Japan. 
  • 10/2004: Dept. of Mechanics, VSB – TechnicalUniversity of Ostrava,Czech Republic.