Professional Service
Journal Editorship
- Lead Guest Editor for special issue "Traumatic Injury towards Enhanced Prevention, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment", Applied Sciences (2024-2025)
- Editorial Board of Mechanical Engineering division, Scientific Reports (10/2021-)
- Editorial Board, Nanotechnology Reviews (1/2019-)
- Associate Editor in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - Biomechanics (5/2022-)
- Review Editor for General Cardiovascular Medicine in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (2020/8-)
- Lead Guest Editor for special issue “Advances in Mechanics of Biomaterials”, Applied Sciences (2023-24)
- Topic Associate Editor for “Biofabrication Approaches for Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Repair”, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology: Biofabrication (2023)
- Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy (2017-2023)
- Associate Editor, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Science (CMES, 2018-2021)
- Topic Editor for “Mechanics of Biomaterials II- Modeling of Trauma and Disease”, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology: Biomechanics (2019)
- Lead Guest Editor (2017) for special issue “Engineering Better Stenting Outcomes”, Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
- Guest Associate Editor for Topic “Mechanics of Biomaterials”, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology: Biomechanics (2013-2014)
Organizer
- Track Chair, Biomedical and Biotechnology (16 Topics), ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo (IMECE2021-22).
- Track Co-Chair, Biomedical and Biotechnology (14 Topics, and each topic has up to 7 sessions), ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo (IMECE2019-20 & 23).
- Chair, Biomedical Graduate Students' Competition, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo (IMECE2018-2019).
- Track Chair, Computational Modeling and Simulation, Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD 2017-2021)
- Topic Organizer, Computational Modeling in Biomedical applications. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo (IMECE2017-2020).
- Topic Organizer, Computational Modeling and Device Design. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo (IMECE2011-2016)
- Topic Organizer, 8th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices (BIOMED), ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2015), August 2-5, Boston, MA.
- Topic Organizer, Computational Modeling and Device Design. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo (IMECE2011-current).
- Topic Chair, Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Applications. IMECE 2013.
- Founding Topic Organizer, Analysis of Trauma Due to Blast, Ballistics, and Impacts. ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2011).
- Founding Topic Organizer, Mechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury. the 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM2010)
Outreach
- Human Heart Research Exhibit at Nebraska State Museum on Valentine’s Day 2019
- “Tissue structure/function relationship” for junior high students at Culler Middle School in Lincoln, NCMN Education and Outreach (2/2014-present)
- “Nanocomposites” NCMN/Bright Lights Nanocamp (2012- present)
- Host/Supervise one high school senior for her science project on artery testing (2012-2013)
- “Engineering Better Heart Health” Sunday with a Scientist 2011 at the Nebraska state museum:
- Lab tour for high school students from Linocoln's science focus program (Zoo school, 2010)
- Invited speaker for Women Interested in Engineering, UNL (2009)