<strong>Professional Service</strong>
National
- American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, 2002 - Present
- Geo-Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002-Present
- Member of the Technical Committee of Risk Assessment and Management RAM
- Engineering Mechanics Institute, 2010 – Present
- Member of the Technical Committee of Computational Mechanics
- Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute
- Member of the Marine Renewable Energy Committee and the Risk and Reliability Working Group, 2011 – Present
- Speaker, “To Bayes or Not to Bayes? A Scenario-Based Approach for Using (or Not) Bayesian Methods,” Live Webinar, September 26, 2013
- Geo-Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002-Present
- American Statistical Association ASA, 2003-Present
- Society for Underwater Technology SUT, 2009 - Present
- Member (Elected), Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics OSIG Committee (USA Chapter), January 2009 - Present
- Chair (Elected), Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics OSIG Committee (USA Chapter), January 2012 – April 2013
- Chair (Re-elected), Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics OSIG Committee (USA Chapter), April 2012 - Present
- Member, Executive Board (USA Chapter), 2012 - Present
- Fellow (Elected), Annual General Meeting, London UK, December 6 2012
- Founding Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter at Texas A&M University, 2013 – Present
- Chair and Speaker (John Allen, IntecSea, Co-Chair), “Academic Challenges for Underwater Technology,” Technical Session ‘Bridging Academia and Industry’, International Conference of the Society for Underwater Technology: New Frontiers and Emerging Technologies, Houston TX, September 18-19, 2013
- Advisor and Speaker (Roger Osborne, Ocean-Flow International), “Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechniques,” One-Day Course – Subsea Awareness, Texas A&M University, March 21, 2014
- Chair and Organizer, “Strategic Retreat of the Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics OSIG Committee,” Texas A&M University, College Station TX, November 13-14, 2014
- Advisor and Speaker (Roger Osborne, Ocean-Flow International), “Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechniques,” One-Day Course – Subsea Awareness, Texas A&M University, April 10, 2015
- Chair (Elected), Society for Underwater Technology (SUT-USA), January 2016 – Present
- Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists AEG
- Invited Lecture, “Stochastic Geomechanics for Optimal Risk-Based Decision-Making,” Technical Session 'Working with Uncertainty and Complexity in Modern Engineering Geology', 56th Annual Meeting, Seattle WA, September 8-15, 2013
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- Chair and Speaker, “Imaging of a Two Dimensional Heterogeneous Elastic Half Space: A Bayesian Full Waveform Inversion,” Offshore Technology Conference, Technical Session ‘Developments in Geotechnical Engineering, Houston TX, May 5-9, 2014
- Chair, Technical Session “Quantitative Geohazard and Georisk Assessment,” Houston TX, May 4-7, 2015
International
- Fulbright Association, 2001 – Present
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2003-Present
- International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2007-Present
- Corresponding Member of the TC304 Committee on Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management
- Universidad Anahuac-Mayab (Mexico)
- Member, Advisory Board, 2011 - Present
- MAE Center at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
- Invited Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, “International Conference on Multi-Hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering”, Chicago IL, Jun 26-27, 2014
- Norwegian Geotechnical Institute NGI
- Invited Member of the International Advisory Council, “3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics ISFOG”, Oslo Norway, Jun 10-12, 2015
<strong>University and Community Service</strong>
Service Out of TAMU
South Knoll Elementary School, 1st Grade Dual Language Program, College Station ISD, Lecture: 'Que Hace un Ingeniero Geotécnico?'. College Station TX, February 21st, 2014.
Hearne high School, Senior Class, Hearne ISD, Lecture: ‘Engineering and Programing under Uncertainty, Hearne TX, October 23, 2013.
Service at TAMU
- Geospatial Sciences, Applications & Technology (GEOSAT), Coordinator
- Graduate Committees
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Member of Elvis de Jesus Duran Sierra’s PhD Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Dung Nguyen’s MSc Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Similoluwa Ogundipe’s ME Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Bulent Derin’s MECommittee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Uriel Salazar Verbitzky’s MSc Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Antu Xie’s MSc Committee
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Member of Nahum Villanueva Luna’s MSc Committee
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Member of Jorge Herrera Camara’s MSc Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Clotilde R. Chen Valdes’ PhD Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Pattanapong Plukmonton’s MSc Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Patricia Varela Gonzalez, PhDCommittee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Eduardo Martinez Rodriguez’s MSc Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Jaeyoung Park’s MSc Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Roneet Das’ MSc Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Sayak Sinha’s MSc Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Yasser Soltanpour’s PHD Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Kristina M. Farris’ ME Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Noe H. Morales MSc Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Joseph D. Muhirwa’s ME Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Member of Shi Chen’s PhD Committee
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Member of Patrick Glass’s MS Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Adebusuyi O. Famurewa’s M.E Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Tam Duong’s M.Sc Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Raul A. Gonzalez Jimenez’s PhD Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Hyun C. Yoon’s PhD Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Clotilde R. Chen Valdes’ PHD Committee
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Member of Ryan Payne’s PhD Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Member of Thomas Hull’s ME Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Member of Karl P. Mertens’ MSc Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Member of Yuze Zhang’s PhD Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Member of Gorgonio Fuentes-Cruz’s PhD Committee
- Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Co-Chair of Nefeli Moridis’ MSc Committee
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, Member of Mishra Aashwin PhD Committee
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Chair of Saba Seyedpouresmailzadeh’s PhD Committee
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Member of Adrian Colli’s PhD Committee
- Departmental Service
- Graduate Student Advisor, Geotechnical Division, 2013 – Present
- Geotech Faculty Representative for the Civil Engineering Graduate Invitational, 2013 - Present
- Course Coordinator for CVEN-365 Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering, 2011 – Present
- Course Coordinator for CVEN-651 Geomechanics, 2011 – Present
- Course Coordinator for CVEN-655 Structural Reliability, 2014 – Present
- Volunteer for the “Geotech Lecture to Civil Engineering Freshmen,” 2013 and 2014
- Geotech Faculty Search Committee, 2015
- Chair, Seminar Series of the Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory SGL
- Lu Cong, “Experiment and Model Development of Elasto-Visco-Plastic Constitutive Models of Dam Rock Slope”, China University of Geosciences, 2015
- Roy Santons, “Gardline Site Investigation Technologies”, 2015
- Tamas Huszak, “Probabilistic Modeling of Thixotropic Soils: Understanding the 2010 Dam Failure Mechanism at Kolontár, Hungary”, Budapest University of Technology and Engineering (BME)”, 2014
- Lizhong Wang, “Advancing the Reliability of Pile Design Methods”, Zhejiang University, 2014
- Greg Fyffe, Offshore Deepwater Geotechnical Site Investigation, Benthic, 2013
- Andrew Hill, Marine Geohazards Technical Authority BP Exploration – Houston, 2013
- Students’ Service
- Society for Underwater Technology SUT -TAMU
- Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter at Texas A&M University, 2013 – Present
- Speaker and Judge Coordinator, Short Course and Poser Competition “Frontiers in Underwater Technology”, April 14th, 2016
- Judge Coordinator, Paper Competition “Society for Underwater Underwater Technologies – Paper Competition”, May 15th, 2015
- Speaker Coordinator, One-Day Course on “Subsea Awareness for Aggies,” April 10th, 2015
- Speaker Coordinator, One-Day Course on “Subsea Awareness for Aggies,” March 21st, 2014
- Speaker Coordinator, Seminar by Craig Ship (Shell International) “Offshore Geohazards Assessment: the Geology of Shallow Industry Drilling,” February 6th, 2014
- Speaker Coordinator, Seminar by John Allen (GE Energy) “Subsea Processing,” January 10, 2013
- Speaker Coordinator, Seminar by Christopher Curran (BP Reliability) “Subsea Tieback“, May 3rd, 2013
- Support and Referee Letters
- Negin Yousefpour, Reference letter for LANGAN, 2015
- Francisco Hernandez-Martinez, Faculty application to MIT, 2015
- Shafeeq Irfan Riyaj, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at UC-Davis, 2015
- Shafeeq Irfan Riyaj, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at Colorado School of Mines, 2015
- Shafeeq Irfan Riyaj, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at UT-Austin, 2015
- Shafeeq Irfan Riyaj, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at TAMU, 2015
- Tam Duong, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at TAMU, 2015
- Blake Haney, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Structural Engineering Program at TAMU, 2015
- Fernando Fernandez, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at TAMU, 2015
- Olmo Moreno Franco, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at TAMU, 2015
- Yasser Soltanpour, Support Letter for the Energy Institute Graduate Fellowship Committee at TAMU, 2015
- Yichuan Zhu, Support Letter for the Energy Institute Graduate Fellowship Committee at TAMU, 2015
- Alexander C. Eleiott, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Petroleum Engineering Program at TAMU, 2015
- Alexander C. Eleiott, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Petroleum Engineering Program at UT-Austin, 2015
- Noe Morales, Support Letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Engineering Program at TAMU, 2015
- Rebekah Ryder, Support Letter for admission to various graduate programs, 2015.
- Alexander C. Eleiott, Support Letter for admission to the Undergraduate Summer Research Grant Program, 2014.
- Dustan C. Shwalm, Support Letter for admission to the Undergraduate Summer Research Grant Program, 2014.
- Lucille Hatherill, Support Letter for admission to the Undergraduate Summer Research Grant Program, 2014
- Tin-Kai Chow, Reference letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Program at TAMU, 2014.
- Harsh Patel, Reference letter for admission to the Research Opportunities for Engineering Scholars Program at TAMU, 2013.
- Tin-Kai Chow, Reference letter for admission to the Research Opportunities for Engineering Scholars Program at TAMU, 2013.
- Alberto Mena, Reference letter for admission to the Graduate Geotechnical Program at TAMU, 2014.
- Ryan Ostrander, Support Letter for the Mother’s Club Scholarship, 2013
- Tin-Kai Chow, Support Letter for admission to the Undergraduate Summer Research Program at TAMU, 2013.
- Ryan Ostrander, Support Letter for admission to the Undergraduate Summer Research Program at TAMU, 2013.
- Negin Yousefpour, Support Letter, Assistant Professor Faculty Position Candidate, The State University of New York Institute of Technology, 2013
- Negin Yousefpour, Support Letter, Assistant Professor Faculty Position Candidate, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013
- Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter at Texas A&M University, 2013 – Present
- Society for Underwater Technology SUT -TAMU
<strong>Review of Journal Papers and/or Research Proposals</strong>
Editorial Boards
- Member of the Editorial Board of GeoRisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, 2010 – Present.
Journal Reviews
- Reviewer for the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering ASCE, 2006 - Present.
- Reviewer for Acta Geotechnica, 2009 - Present
- Reviewer for GeoRisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, 2011 – Present
- Reviewer for the Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering, 2013 – Present
- Reviewer for the Journal of the Society of Petroleum Engineers SPE, 2013 – Present
- Reviewer for Near Surface Geophysics, 2013 – Present
- Reviewer for Geo-Congress 2014
- Reviewer for Cold-Regions Science and Technology, 2013- Present
- Reviewer for The Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2013- Present
- Reviewer for The Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geology, 2013- Present
- Reviewer for the ASCE Special Publication Honoring Fred H. Kulhawy – “Foundation Engineering in the Face of Uncertainty,”, Eds: James L. Withiam, Ph.D., P.E; Kok-Kwang Phoon, Ph.D., P.E.; and Mohamad H. Hussein, P.E., 2013.
- Reviewer for Geotechnique, 2014- Present
- Reviewer for Engineering Geology, 2014- Present
Research Proposals
- Member, NSF Panel Review. Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation, Geotechnical Engineering and Materials Program, June 2015
- Reviewer, TAMU-PUC Research Program (Chile), December 2015
- Reviewer, TAMU-CONACYT Research Program (Mexico), May 2015
- Reviewer for the Research Partnership for Securing Energy for America RPSEA - DoE, 2013- Present.