Professional Activites

President, American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineering, 2014-2019

Chairman, 7th Int. Sym. Advances in Comput. Heat Transfer, Naples, Italy, May 2017

Chairman, Executive Committee, Int. Center for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), Turkey, 2015-2017

Chairman, ASME Micro/Nano Heat and Mass Transfer Conf., Hong Kong, December 2014

Chairman, 6th Int. Sym. Advances in Comput. Heat Transfer, Rutgers Univ., May 25-29, 2015

Chairman, Executive Committee, International Heat Transfer Conference, Washington, DC, August 2010.

USA Delegate, Assembly of International Heat Transfer Conferences, 2007-2011

Chair, US Scientific Committee for International Heat Transfer Conference-13, Sydney, Australia: August 2006

Chair, Heat Transfer Division, ASME, 2002-03 (Executive Committee Member: 1998-2004)

Technical Program Representative, Heat Transfer Division, Int. Mech. Engg. Congress and Expo. (IMECE), New York: Nov. 2001

Member, Committee on Long Range Directions and Issues, Heat Transfer Division, ASME: 1996-99

Conference Co-Chairman, 2nd ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, Surathkal, India: December 1995

Conference Chairman, ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference, San Diego, CA: 1992

ASME Program Representative, 1990 AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Seattle, WA: June 1990

Chairman, General Papers Committee, ASME Heat Transfer Division: 1986-88 (Member: 1984-86)

Member of several other committees since 1974, particularly the Committee on Heat Transfer in Fires and Combustion Systems (1983-89), within the Heat Transfer Division, ASME