Professional Service

  • NIH Study Section ZNS1 SRB-M, BRAIN Initiative: Biology and Biophysics of Neural Stimulation and Recording Technologies. Reviewer. 10/20/2022 - 10/20/2022
  • NIH Study Section ZNS1 SRB-M, BRAIN Initiative: Biology and Biophysics of Neural Stimulation and Recording Technologies. Reviewer. 07/12/2021 - 07/12/2021
  • Frontiers in Pain; specialization in Neuromodulatory Interventions. Associate Editor. 05/17/2021 - present
  • Academic journals. Role: Reviewer. Science Advances Nature Communications Nature Methods ... and many others. 06/01/2019 - present

Honors & Awards

  • Nomination for the Moore Inventor Fellowship. University of Utah, 11/01/2021
  • Best Teacher in Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering Dean's Office). University of Utah, 08/20/2021

Internal Service

  • College of Engineeering Seed Grant. Reviewer, 11/06/2023 - present. College service.
  • University of Utah Faculty Recruitment Committee. Reviewer, 01/11/2022 - 07/28/2022. Department service.
  • Scholarship Commitee. Reviewer, 02/20/2021 - present. Department service.
  • University of Utah Qualifying Exam Committee. 08/20/2019 - present. Department service.
  • I provide seminars to show international students how to self-petition for U.S. permanent residency through the National Interest Waiver program. The goal of these free seminars is to widen the pool of promising researchers in the U.S. to include nationalities that may be under-represented. Speaker, 10/11/2018 - present. University service.

Outreach

  • University of Utah Prison Education Project Talk and demo, "Noninvasive Therapies of the Brain". 02/21/2020 - 02/21/2020
  • My lab hosted two high school students of American Indian origin, Karla Tapia and Lelah Alzhemrani. The students recorded neural responses of human brain organoids. Both students won the selective Charles Steger Global Internship Program in Focused Ultrasound for this work. 06/10/2019 - 09/12/2019

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