Service

• NSF RCN Workshop Chair for the “Enhancing Interdisciplinary Education and Diversity” for Predictive Modeling Network for Sustainable Human-building Ecosystems (SHBE) funded by NSF Research Coordination Network (RCN) in Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) program September 30th-October 1st, 2016
• Department Reviewer for the Institutional Review Board (IRB) since 2015
• Organizer of summer REU STEM Symposium at UTK in 2015 and 2016
• Reviewer for NSF Science Technology Center Proposal Red Team at UTK in 2015
• Steering committee and lead for Sustainability Education Program for the NSF RCN-SEES: Predictive Modeling Network for Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems (SHBE) since 2014
• Co-lead on social-psychological Modeling Task for the International Energy Agency (IEA), Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Annex 66: Definition and Simulation of Occupant Behavior in Buildings from 2014-2017
• Committee member of the interdisciplinary research task of occupant behavior model for the American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) since 2016
• NSF reverse site visit reviewer for the Partnership International Research and Education (PIRE) Program, 2014
• Invited panelist for NSF Panel of the Engineering Education Awardee’s Meeting: Testing Regimes and Engineering Formation in K-12 setting in 2014
• Co-moderator for the Education and Diversity Program Orientation, NSF Engineering Research Center Annual Meeting, November 14-16th, 2012
• Search committee for assistant professors from the Department of Teaching and Learning, UTK, 2012
• Led a group of five undergraduate and graduate students from the department of EECS, UTK on research and academic exchange visit to Tsinghua, Southeast, and North Electric Power Universities and several utility companies in China in 2013
• Supervisor of CURENT student leadership council since 2011
• Responsible for various university and K-12 engineering education and diversity outreach, curriculum design, and proposal writing: including supervising research experience for undergraduate program (REU), designing engineering education assessment strategies, and professional trainings for graduate and undergraduate students; design and supervise middle school engineering programs, girl-only summer STEM program (Adventure in STEM), young scholar program (for high school students), K-8 Family Engineering Night, and STEM education curriculum development at local k-12 schools to encourage community’s broader involvement in STEM education, particularly in the areas schools with economic disadvantages. Total outreach participants were over 20,000 since 2012
• Promote diversity in the STEM fields for both universities and K-12 students, including encouraging women, minority, veterans, people with disabilities and lower-social economic background and so on since 2011

Editorial Board

Energy Research and Social Science

Peer Reviewer

Applied Energy, Business, Strategy and the Environment, Energy Research and Social Science, Energy Efficiency, Energy and Buildings, Energy and Environment, Journal of American Sociology Review, Journal of Planning Education and Research, National Communication Association, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews