External Advisory Boards, Visiting Committees and
Other Major Committees

Active

MD Anderson Cancer Center, Institute for Data Science in Oncology, External Advisory Board (2023 – present)

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, Board of Managers (2023 – present)

CIMNE – International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain, Scientific Advisory Council (2023 – 2027)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Advisory Committee, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (2023 – present)

Department of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (2023 – present)

National Academies Study on Foundational Research Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins (Chair, 2022 – 2023)

Harvard University, Committee to Visit Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) (2019 – present; Chair, 2022 – present)

International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), Executive Council (2022 – 2028)

National Academies Study on Post-Exascale Computing for the National Nuclear Security Administration (2021 – 2023)

Claremont McKenna College, Founding Science Advisory Council (2021 – present)

Institute for Water Futures, Australian National University, Advisory Board (2021 – 2024)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Advisory Board (2021 – present)

Delft University of Technology, Review Committee, Research Assessment of Aerospace Engineering (2021 – 2022)

MATH+ Scientific Advisory Board (2021 – present)

AIAA SciTech Executive Steering Committee (2021 – 2023)

AIAA Board of Trustees (2020 – 2023)

Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) Advisory Board (2020 – 2024)

Center of Excellence on Sustainable and Energy Efficient Aviation, TU Braunschweig, Advisory Board (2020 – present)

Santa Fe Institute, Science Board (2019 – present)

Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering, University of Michigan, External Advisory Board (2017 – present)

Sandia National Laboratories. External Review Board, Computing and Information Sciences Research Foundation (2016 – present)

National Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics (BMSA) (2016 – present; Co-chair 2023 – present)

Girls’ Angle, Advisory Board (2014 – present)

Past

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Search Committee, Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (2023)

Co-Chair, SIAM 2022 Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS22)

SIAM Activity Group on Data Science (Program Director, 2021 – 2022)

ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research, Capability Assessment External Review Panel (Physics and Mathematical Science and Scientific Computing) (2021)

National Academies Planning Committee on the Workshop on the Frontiers of Mechanistic Data-Driven Modeling for Additive Manufacturing (2019)

AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Technical Committee (Chair, 2019 – 2021; Deputy Chair, 2017 – 2019; Publications Sub-Committee Chair, 2011 – 2018; Awards Sub-Committee Chair, 2003 – 2006; Member, 2002 – 2021)

NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) (2019 – 2022; Co-chair, 2020 – 2022)

SIAM Journals Committee (2019 – 2021)

National Academies Panel on Review of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (2018)

TU Braunschweig Universities of Excellence, Review Committee, German Excellence Initiative (2018)

Department of Energy Working Group on Basic Research Needs for Scientific Machine Learning (2017 – 2019)

National Academies Committee to Assess the Risks of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration (2017 – 2018)

Colorado School of Mines, Visiting Committee, Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department (2017)

SIAM Committee on Science Policy (2016 – 2017)

Harvard University, HarvardX Review Committee (2016)

UT Austin, Board of Visitors, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences (Chair, 2015 – 2018; Member, 2012 – 2018)

SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (Vice-Chair, 2013 – 2015; Program Director, 2011 – 2013)

SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE13), Co-Chair (2013)

Delft University of Technology, Assessment Committee, Accreditation of Aerospace Engineering (2013)

AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Conference Technical Chair (2011 – 2012)

National Science Foundation, Committee of Visitors, Division of Mathematical Sciences (2010)

Advisory Board, Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland (2008 – 2018)

National Research Council, Committee to Conduct an Independent Assessment of the Nation’s Wake Turbulence Research and Development Program (2007)

National Academies Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics, Aerodynamics and Acoustics Panel (2005 – 2006)

Editorial Boards

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Editorial Board Member, 2022 – present)

International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics (Advisory Board Member, 2022 – present)

Acta Numerica (Editorial Board Member, 2021 – present)

IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE) (Associate Editor, 2021 – present)

AIAA Journal (Editorial Board Member, 2021 – present; Associate Editor, 2015 – 2020, 2009 – 2011)

Journal on Data Centric Engineering (Advisory Board 2019 – present)

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Section Editor, 2013 – 2019; Associate Editor, 2008 – 2013)

ASA/SIAM Journal on Uncertainty Quantification (Associate Editor, 2012 – 2013)

SIAM Book Series on Computational Science and Engineering (Editorial Board Member, 2009 – present)

Major Internal Committees and Leadership Roles
at MIT and UT Austin

UT Austin Provost Search Advisory Committee, Chair (2021)

Associate Vice President for Research, UT Austin (2020 – present)

Director, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, UT Austin (2018 – present)

MIT OpenCourseWare Faculty Advisory Committee (Chair, 2015 – 2018; Member, 2011 – 2018)

MIT Online Education Policy Initiative, Co-Chair (2015 – 2016)

Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, Co-Chair (2013 – 2014)

Co-Chair, Mission and Scope Subcommittee, Ad Hoc Committee on the Formation of a New Entity in the Areas of Complex and Socio-technical Systems, Information and Decision Systems, and Statistics (2013 – 2014)

Associate Department Head, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2011 – 2013)

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Statistics at MIT (2011 – 2012)

Founding Co-Director, MIT Center for Computational Engineering (2008 – 2018)