2024 - Test-of-Time Award from IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
2022 – Edwin F. Church Medal from the American Society for Mechanical Engineers
2021 – Outstanding Team Award, Rensselaer School of Engineering
2020 – Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2019 – J. Tinsley Oden Medal of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics for “pioneering contributions to meshfree methods, musicale modeling and real time computing”
2018 – Co-Chair (Computational Biological Sciences), Thirteenth World Congress on Computational Mechanics & Second Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics, New York City, NY
2017 – Co-chair of the inaugural ECCOMAS Thematic Conference in Multiscale Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (MultiBioMe), Vienna, Austria
2017 – Co-Chair, 14th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Montreal, Canada
2017 – Elected Fellow, United States Association for Computational Mechanics
2016 – Elected Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics
2016 – Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
2012 – Co-chair of the inaugural USACM Thematic Conference on Multiscale Modeling and Validation in Medicine and Biology (MMVMB), San Francisco, USA
2012 – Outstanding Team Award, Rensselaer School of Engineering
2011 – Elected Senior Member of IEEE
2009 – James M. Tien ’66 Early Career Award for Faculty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2008 – Rensselaer School of Engineering Excellence in Research Award
2005 – Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research
Life Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Member, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Member, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
Member, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
Member, Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Executive Committee of the ASME, 2018-2020
Chair, Extramural Funding Taskforce of the Research Committee, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), 2021-present
Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) committee on the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS), 2011-present
Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Technology Council, 2019-present
Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Fundamental use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) committee, 2010-2020
Workgroup leader, Theoretical and Computational Methods Workgroup of the Multiscale Modeling (MSM), 2010-2014
Chair, Committee on Computational Bioengineering of the US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2002-2015
Member of the Executive Committee, Vice-Chair for Awards and Public Relations, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics (TCH), 2008-present