HONORS AND AWARDS Royal Society of London Visiting Professorship Award Outstanding Achievement Award of American Nuclear Society Fellow of the American Nuclear Society Outstanding Young Man of America Award Kan Tong Po Visiting Professorship in Hong Kong, Royal Society of London Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology International Who’s Who in Energy and Nuclear Science UCLA Faculty–Staff Partnership Award General Chair, Second International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling Chair, NSF Review Panel Outstanding Achievement Award of American Nuclear Society, Materials, and Fusion Energy Divisions Fellow of the American Nuclear Society Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics Fellow of the Materials Research Society Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences

Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g. Nuclear, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Plasma and Laser Processing; Materials Non-equilibrium, Pattern formation and Instability Phenomena; Radiation Interaction with Materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser & photons).