2026 Board of Directors (Renamed as Collaboration Group) Member in the University Marine Energy Research Community (UMERC) - Sponsored Program by the U.S. Department of Energy Water Power Technologies Office (DOE - WPTO)

Associate Member of American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committee 239: Ultra-High-Performance Concrete

Voting Member of ACI Subcommittee 239-0C: Structural Design on UHPC

Associate Member of ACI Committee 357: Offshore and Marine Concrete Structures

Voting Member of ACI Committee 550: Precast Structures—Joint ACI-ASCE

Chair of ACI Subcommittee 550-0F: PRESS FRAME

Voting Member of The Masonry Society (TMS) Research Committee

Voting Member of The Masonry Society (TMS) Reinforcement & Connectors (RC) Subcommittee

Voting Member of The Masonry Society (TMS) Existing Masonry Standards Committee

Chair of High-Strength Reinforcing Bar (HSRB) Task Group for The Masonry Society (TMS)

Member of the Texas Masonry Council (TMC) Industry Development and Education Alliance (IDEA) Committee

Member Level 3 of the National Science Foundation’s StEER Network

Co-organizer of the 2027 15th North American Masonry Conference (NAMC) in San Antonio, Texas.

Chair of the Student Competition for the 2026 4th International Interactive Symposium on Ultra-High Performance Concrete (4IISUHPC).

Member of the Technical Committee for the 2028 International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Portugal.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the 2026 International Masonry Conference.

Gave several expert-opinion media interviews for the 2024 Houston Derecho event.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the 2023 3rd International Interactive Symposium on Ultra-High Performance Concrete (3IISUHPC).

Co-organized EMI Mini-Symposia in 2024 and 2025 on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) Topics.

Invited External Examiner for the Final Thesis Defense of a PhD Candidate in the University of Alberta, Canada (2025).

Participated in the NICHE Workshop “Designing the World’s Largest Wind-Wave Research Facility” DesignSafe-CI (2024).

Organized several UH Educational Masonry Days.

Participated in several reconnaissance (PVRR and EARR) reports of StEER for historic tropical storms and hurricanes.