FY12 Annual Report: Leadership Positions

Leadership positions held by faculty during Fiscal Year 2012.

Anagnostopoulos, Constantine. Member, IEEE USA Intellectual Property Committee.

Baxter, Christopher. Officer, Rhode Island Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Baxter, Christopher. Secretary, American Society of Civil Engineers/Geo-Institute’s Soil Properties and Modeling Committee.

Besio, Walter. Committee Member, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology North American Administration.

Besio, Walter. Representative, IEEE Sensors Council Administrative Committee.

Berka, Sigrid. Trustee and Board Member, DAAD/AA (alumni association of the German Academic Exchange Service).

Bose, Arijit. Steering Committee, C-MEDS Consortium, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.

Bothun, Geoffrey. Associate Director, Rhode Island Consortium for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Jan 2011-Apr 2012.

Bothun, Geoffrey. Director, Rhode Island Consortium for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, May 2012-current.

Chelidze, David. Associate Editor, The Mathematical Problems in Engineering.

Chelidze, David. Associate Editor, The Nonlinear Engineering.

Faghri, Mohammad. Member, Editorial Board, Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2010-present.

Faghri, Mohammad. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Dynamics of Fluids, 2004-present.

Faghri, Mohammad. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Heat Exchanger, 1999-present.

Faghri, Mohammad. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Science & Technology, 1993-present.

Faghri, Mohammad. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Heat Transfer Research, 1997-present.

Gindy, Mayrai. Voting Member, American Concrete Institute, Deflection of Concrete Building Structure Committee (ACI 435).

Gindy, Mayrai. Voting Member, American Concrete Institute, Structural Reliability and Safety Committee (ACI 348).

Gindy, Mayrai. Voting Member, Transportation Research Board, Dynamics and Field Testing of Bridges Committee (AFF40).

Grilli, Annette. Member, National Research Council Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Assessment Committee of the National Academies.

Grilli, Stephan. East Coast Representative, NOAA National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program Mapping and Modeling Sub-committee.

Grilli, Stephan. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements.

Grilli, Stephan. National Research Council Marine Board.

Haibo, He. Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, 2009-2012.

Haibo, He. Industry Liaison (U.S. & Canada) Chair, The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose, CA, 2011.

He, Haibo. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks/IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2010-present.

He, Haibo. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2010-present.

He, Haibo. Member, Editorial Board, Cognitive Computation, 2009-present.

He, Haibo. Member, Editorial Board, Evolving Systems, 2010-present.

He, Haibo. Guest Editor, Cognitive Computation, 2011-2012.

He, Haibo. Guest Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2011.

He, Haibo. Guest Editor, Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2011-2012.

He, Haibo. Tutorial Chair, The 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 2012.

He, Haibo. Vice Chair, IEEE CIS Smart Grid Task Force.

Lee, Kang-Won. Vice President, Korean-American Society of Civil and Environmental Engineers.

Lucia, Angelo. Associate Editor, Journal of Global Optimization, 2007-present.

Lucia, Angelo. Associate Editor, Journal of Thermodynamics, 2008-present.

Miller, James. President-Elect, The Acoustical Society of America, 2012-2013.

Nassersharif, Bahram. Commissioner. Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 2003-present.

Nassersharif, Bahram. Control Member of Task Group 2: Reliability-Based Structural System.

Park, Keunhan. Track Co-organizer, The 3rd Microscale and Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Mar. 2012.

Potty, Gopu. Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering since July, 2011.

Potty, Gopu. Co-chair, Acoustical Society of America.

Potty, Gopu. Member, International Advisory Committee, Symposium on Ocean Electronics, (SYMPOL), Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India.

Potty, Gopu. Member, Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography of Acoustical Society of America (ASA).

Potty, Gopu. USA Representative. ISO Working Group: ISO/TC 43/SC 3/WG 3 (Underwater acoustics: Measurement of radiated noise form marine pile driving).

Shukla, Arun. Associate Technical Editor, Lasers and Optics in Engineering, 1997-2011.

Shukla, Arun. Chairman, Fellow’s Committee, SEM, 2012.

Shukla, Arun. Executive Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012-Present.

Shukla, Arun. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Key Engineering Materials, Trans Tech Publications, 1997-Present.

Shukla, Arun. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Strain, 2006-Present.

Shukla, Arun. Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2011.

Shukla, Arun. Member, Fellow’s Committee, SEM, 2009-2013.

Shukla, Arun. Member, Finance Committee, SEM, 2002-present.

Shukla, Arun. Member, SEM Education Committee, 2009-present.

Sun, Yan. Elected Member, Information and Forensics and Security Technical Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society, 2012-2014.

Sun, Yan. Finance Chair, 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2012.

Thiem, Leon. Member, Civil Engineering Committee, National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.

Thiem, Leon. Vice President, Kingston Water District.

Tsiatas, George. Control Member of Task Group 2: Reliability-Based Structural System Performance Indicators, of the American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structural Systems.

Worthen, David. Delegate, United States Pharmacopeial Convention.

Yang, Qing. General Chair, Symposium on Computer Architecture, San Jose, CA, 2011.

Yang, Qing. Organizer, International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013.

Yang, Qing. Steering Committee Member, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2012, 2013.