Service & recognition

Peer review, leadership, and technical community service.

Only selected activities that reinforce scientific and engineering credibility are included.

2025 US-RSE Community Awards Committee

Selected to review, score, rank, and deliberate on nominations for the United States Research Software Engineer Association’s community awards.

PEARC 2025 reviewer

Reviewed five short papers in the Workforce Development, Training, Education, and Community track for the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing conference.

Conference and research judging

Reviewer for IndabaX Ghana and evaluator for NSF REU research; served as an engineering judge for the State Science + Technology Fair of Iowa.

International HPC Summer School · Kobe, Japan

Competitively selected for the 2024 program covering MPI/OpenMP, GPU programming, performance analysis, visualization, and large-data scientific workflows.

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Organization

President, Iowa State University, 2024–2025. Led department-wide graduate initiatives including research engagement, town halls, and student programming.

Engineers Without Borders

Vice President / Project Lead, 2018–2021. Directed engineering and fundraising work connected to community infrastructure projects in Ullo, Ghana.

Research honor societies

Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, and Pi Tau Sigma, the International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.

ASME VOLT

Member-at-Large in ASME’s Volunteer Orientation & Leadership Training program, 2025–2027.

Selected technical presentations.

2025

18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18)

Presented Simulating detailed flow physics in K–12 classrooms for assessing indoor air quality, Chicago, July 21, 2025.

Computational mechanics · CFD · indoor air quality
2025

SC’25 · The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

Co-author of the research poster PhySiViT: A Physics Simulation Vision Transformer.