List of Recent Awards and Honors

• J. T. Oden Faculty Fellowship — Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
• Advisor of Jeronymo Pereira, winner of best student presentation competition in meshfree methods specialty area, 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, 2007.
• Faculty Fellow — National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)/UIUC 2006-2007.
• Member Technical Advisory Board of the 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, July 22-25, 2007.
• Member Scientific Committee of the 2nd ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Meshless Methods, Porto, Portugal, July 9-­11, 2007.
• NSF Summer Institute on Nano Materials Fellowship, NSF/USACM, July 2006.
• Vice-­chair of the Committee on Meshfree Methods of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics, 2005-2007.
• Chair of the Committee on Meshfree Methods of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics, 2007-2009.
• Young Researcher Fellowship Award for exemplary research in Computational Mechanics from The First M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June 2001.
• Professional Development Award from the University of Texas at Austin, March 1996.