Service - Professional Contributions

A1. Editorial Board Memberships

Advisory Board member of the Oriental Journal of Physical Sciences (India), 2017-present.
Associate Editor Journal of Vibration and Control (ScholarOne Journal, Thomson Reuters), 2017-present.
Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of Elsevier"s Physics in Medicine (PhysMed), summer 2014 present.
Associate Editor, Journal of the European Acoustics Association (Acta Acustica United with Acustica) summer 2011 present.
Associate Editor, of Springer"s Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (JONE), Spring 2015 - present.
Guest Editor, Ultrasonics (Elsevier) , (Acousto-Optics / Ultrasound and Nano-Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation of Anisotropic Materials), on the occasion of congress ICUltrasonics (2005-present).
Guest Editor, Editorial Board of the XVIIth National Symposium on Ultrasonics, India (for Mc Millan Press, New Delhi, India), 2008.
Associate Editor , 2014 - present, African Journal of Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
Associate Editor, 2013 - 2016, The Scientific World Journal, Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Associate Editor , 2010 - 2014, Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
Associate Editor , 2008 - present: The Open Acoustics Journal, BENTHAM Science Publishers Ltd.

A2. Society Offices, Activities, and Membership



Offices:

Chairman of the Technical Committee on Ultrasonics of the European Acoustics Association EAA, 2018-2021.Member of the examination committee for the R. W. B. Stephens Award during the International Congresses on Ultrasonics, an award offered by Elsevier serving as best student paper awards during the congresses, and coordinated by Prof Wolfgang Sachse and Prof Arthur Every, 2013 - presentElected member of the Silver Whistle award committee of the International Congress on Ultrasonics, 2017 presentElected Chair of the Board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics 2015-2017.
Elected member of the advisory board of the French Acoustical Society (membre du conseil d'administration de la société française d"acoustique) Jan 2016 - Dec 2017.
President (General Chair) of the Board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics 2015, Metz, France.
Board member of the International Commission for Acoustics ICA, representing ICU (2013-2016).
Member of Scientific Committee, GDR-3542, a French research consortium on Multiscale Mechanics of Fibrous Materials (Mécanique Multi-Échelle des Milieux Fibreux) (2012-present).
Member of the Technical Committee "Transducer and Electroacoustics (Le Groupe Transducteurs et Electroacoustique - GTEA) of the French Acoustical Society SFA.
Member of the Technical Committee "Submarine Physical Acoustics and Ultrasonics (Groupe d"Acoustique Physica Sous-marine et Ultra-Sonore - GAPSUS) of the French Acoustical Society SFA.
Permanent Board Member (2011-present) (and 2013-2015 President) of the Steering Committee of the International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU): www.icultrasonics.org . The ICU is the World"s largest congress on ultrasonics and originates from The World Congress on Ultrasonics (WCU) merged with Elsevier"s Ultrasonics International (UI).
Member of the Young Scientists Advisory Committee (YSAC) of the International Congress on Ultrasonics (ICU): www.icultrasonics.org . The ICU is the World"s largest congress on ultrasonics and originates from The World Congress on Ultrasonics (WCU) merged with Elsevier"s Ultrasonics International (UI). 2007-2011.
Member of National Society committee: Acoustical Society of America: Physical Acoustics Committee, Term 2009

Membership:

The Acoustical Society of America (full member).
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Senior member).
Sigma Xi.
Belgian Acoustical Society (until 2018).
French Acoustical Society.
Alumni Lovaniensis.
Russian Acoustical Society (until 2018).
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (until 2008).
The Acoustical Society of Japan (until 2008).
American Physical Society, divisions: Astrophysics/Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics/ Laser science (until 2008).
European Physical Society division: Quantum Electronics & Optics Acoustical Society of America (until 2008).
The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (until 2008).
The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (until 2008).
The Optical Society of America (until 2008).
The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (until 2008).
The Canadian Acoustical Association l"Association Canadienne d"Acoustique (until 2008).

A3. Organization and Chairmanship of Technical Sessions, Workshops and Conferences



Session organizer for the 2019 International Congress on Ultrasonics (2019 ICU), 3-6 September, 2019, Bruges, Belgium.
Ultrasound Topic Coordinator for the congress "23rd International Congress on Acoustics , September 9-13, 2019, Aachen, Germany.
Structured Session Co-organizer, with R. R. Yadav, of "Ultrasonics in Small Particles & their Liquid Suspensions , 13th Western Pacific Congress on Acoustics, WESPAC-2018, Nov 11-15, 2018, New Delhi, India
Chairman of technical session "Acoustic Modeling of Sound Fields in Complex Environments , December 18, 2017 ICU International Congress on Ultrasonics, Honolulu, 18-20 December 2017.Chairman of Technical Session "1A : Novel NDE Methods , December 14, 2017 NDE, 2017 Chennai, India.
Member of the advisory board of the first International Conference on Innovations in Mechanical Engineering ICIME-2017, Guru Nanak Institute, Hyderabad, India / Proceedings co-editor, "Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering , Springer, proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovations in mechanical Engineering (ICIME-2017), Guru Nanak Institute (GNI), Hyderabad, India, 5-6 January, 2018
Member of the International Program Committee of the 2917 International Conference on mechanical Engineering and applied composite materials MEACM2017, Hongkong, China, 23-24 Sept, 2017.
Member of the International Organizing Committee to promote 2017 ICU Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 18-20 December, 2017.
Organizing Committee member of "XX Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Application in Information and Telecommunication Systems , 26-30 June, 2017, St Petersburg, Russia.
Organizing Committee member of "XIX Conference for Young Researchers on Wave Electronics and its Application in Information and Telecommunication Systems , Conference held within the framework of the international forum "Modern Information Society Formation : Problems, Perspectives, Innovation Approaches , June 20-24, 2016, St Petersburg, Russia.
Member of the Technical Committee for Ultrasound of the European Acoustics Association EAA (2014-present).
Technical Program Committee Member for TMRESM13 & TMRESM14 & TMRESM 15 (The international conference on Technologies and Materials of Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Mediterranean 2013 & 2014 & 2015), organized by the Euro-Mediteranean Institute for Sustainable Development (EUMISD), 2013, 2014, 2015.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, and Organizing committee, Wave Electronics and Its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems", St Petersburg, Russia, 2008-2014.
Co-organizer (together with Yaacoubi Slah) of minisymposium "MS 1008 Ultrasonic Guided Waves Testing and Monitoring at European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering ECCOMAS Congress 2016, Crete Island, Greece, June 5-10, 2016.
Co-organizer (together with N. Polikarpova) of special session on acousto-optics in honour of professor Oswald Leroy, at 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Metz, May 10-14, 2015.
Chairman of Plenary lecture, May 14, 2015, at 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Metz, May 10-14, 2015.
Chairman of Opening Ceremony, May 11, 2015, at 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Metz, May 10-14, 2015.
President of the 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Metz, May 10-14, 2015 (5 days, 700 participants, total budget of around 400 kUSD).
Member of the International Advisory Committee of IC DMM 2015 International Conference on Design, Manufacturing and Mechatronics, held joint with the International Symposium on Engineering and Technology (ISET), Pune, India, 11-13 February, 2015.
Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Symposium on Ultrasonics (ISU-2015), organised by the Ultrasonics Society of India in collaboration with the Department of Physics and the Department of Electronics at Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, 22-24 January 2015, Nagpur, India.
Co-organizer of session "Traitement du signal non linéaire spécifique au Contrôle Non Destructif et à l'Imagerie Harmonique , Le congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2014) 22-25 April 2014, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
Member of the reviewer committee of the 3rd Global Conference on Materials Science and Engineering, CMSE 2014, October 22-23, Shanghai, China.
Co-organizer of session "Ultrasonics in small particles and their liquid suspensions , Acoustics 2013, 10-15 November 2013, New Delhi, India.
Chairman of oral session "Fr43 - NDT: Industrial Applications III , Friday, 3 May 2013, 15:20-17:00, at the 2013 International Congress on Ultrasonics, 2-5 May 2013, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore.
Chairman of oral session "2pPA. Material Characterization , co-chaired by Noureddine Atalla (Univ. of Sherbrooke), June 4, 2013, at ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, 2-7 June 2013, Palais des congrès, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Chairman and organizer of oral session "4aEAa. Non-Contact Ultrasonic Methods , co-chaired and co-organized by Michael Haberman (The University of Texas at Austin), June 6, 2013, at ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, 2-7 June 2013, Palais des congrès, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Session Co-Chair : oral session "New non-contact ultrasonic methods and devices , International Congress on Acoustics ICA 2013, Montreal, Canada.
Session Chair: oral session "MR11/B UT: Laser, Ultrasound, Contact , Thursday April 19, at the 18th World Congress on Nondestructive Testing, Durban, South Africa, 16-20 April 2012.
Session Organizer and Chair : oral session; Special Session on Diffraction of Ultrasound on Periodic Structures; International Congress on Ultrasonics 2011, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland; Gdansk, Poland, 5-8 Sept 2011.
Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair : oral session; Acousto-Optics and Applications; 11th School on Acousto-Optics and Applications; Gdansk, Poland, 5-8 Sept 2011.
Member of Scientific Committee, "Emerging Technologies in NDT , 19-21 September 2011 in Ioannina, Greece.
Session Organizer and Chair : oral session 3510ss Mack Breazeale Memorial Session; ICA International Congress on Acoustics; Sydney, Australia, 23-27 August 2010.
Session Chair: oral session Ultrasonics, quantum acoustics, and physical effects of sound 1; International Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia, 23-27 Aug, 2010; Sydney, Australia, 23 Aug, 2010.
Session Co-Chair : oral session 2aPA: Ultrasonics, Nonlinear Acoustics, Acousto-Optics, and Engineering Acoustics in Honor of Mack Breazeale I; Joint 159th ASA Meeting and Noise-Con 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, 19-23 April 2010; Baltimore, USA, 20 Apr 2010.
Session Co-Organizer : oral session; special session S17 : Waves in periodic media: Acousto-Optics, Phononic crystals and ultrasonic diffraction effects; International Congress on Ultrasonics 2009; Santiago de Chile, Chile, Jan 11-17, 2009.
Session Chair: Oral session III, 4 Dec, Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 4-6 Dec 2008.
Session Chair: Oral session V.a, 5 Dec; Seventeenth National Symposium on Ultrasonics; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 4-6 Dec 2008.
Member of Scientific Committee, Member GDR-2501, a research consortium of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Testing between France-UK. 2007-2008.
Member of the Organizing Committee, "10th School on Acousto-Optics and Applications , Sopot, Poland, 12-15 May 2008.
Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair : oral session; technical session PA17 (2aPAb) "Physical Acoustics: Diffraction of waves on periodical structures: Acoustic, ultrasonic and acousto-optical diffraction phenomena I ; Acoustics08, joint meeting of "155th ASA Meeting", "the 5th FORUM ACUSTICUM", "the 9th Congrès Français d"Acoustique" and integrating "the 60th anniversary of the Société Française d"Acoustique (SFA)", "the 7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control" and "the 7th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics"; Le Palais des Congrès de Paris, France, June 29 July 4, 2008.
Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair : poster session; technical session PA17 (2pPAc) "Physical Acoustics: Diffraction of waves on periodical structures: Acoustic, ultrasonic and acousto-optical diffraction phenomena II ; Acoustics08, joint meeting of "155th ASA Meeting", "the 5th FORUM ACUSTICUM", "the 9th Congrès Français d"Acoustique" and integrating "the 60th anniversary of the Société Française d"Acoustique (SFA)", "the 7th EUROpean conference on NOISE control" and "the 7th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics"; Le Palais des Congrès de Paris, France, June 29 July 4, 2008.
Session Organizer and Chair : special Tribute to Prof. Dr. Antoni Sliwinski; 10th school on Acousto-Optics and Applications; Gdansk-Sopot, Poland, 12-15 May 2008.
Session Chair : Oral session S06-S11; International Symposium on Room Acoustics ISRA 2007 Sevilla; Sevilla, Spain, Sept 10, 2007.
Member of Scientific Committee, OPTIMESS 2007 (Optical Measurements Techniques for Structures & Systems), 3rd workshop on Optical Measurement Techniques for Structures and Systems 28-29 May 2007, Faculty Club, Leuven, Belgium.
Session Organizer: "Laser-ultrasound and Acousto-Optics: Theory, experiments and applications ; "Second World Congress on Engineering Asset Management joint with "Fourth International Conference on Condition Monitoring and organized by The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing; Cairn Hotel, Harrogate, United Kingdom, 11-14 June 2007.
Session Organizer and Chair : oral session "HS5-S04: Non-destructive evaluation of anisotropic materials (Wed 11 April 2007); The International Congress on Ultrasonics, ICU2007; Vienna University of Technology, Austria, April 9 12, 2007.
Session Organizer and Chair : oral session "HS6-S03: Ultrasound and nano-materials (Wed 11 April 2007); The International Congress on Ultrasonics, ICU2007; Vienna University of Technology, Austria, April 9 12, 2007.
Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair : oral session "HS3-R02: Acousto-optics (Wed 11 April 2007); The International Congress on Ultrasonics, ICU2007, Vienna, Austria, the Vienna University of Technology, April 9 April 12, 2007; Vienna University of Technology, Austria, April 9 12, 2007.
Session Organizer: mini-symposium" Computational acoustics and computational ultrasonics"; 9th U.S. National Conference on Computational Mechanics; University of California at Berkeley, USA, July 23-26, 2007.
Session Organizer and Chair : Oral session "ultrasound in layered media ( 29 Sept 2006) ; European Conference on Nondestructive Testing ECNDT 2006; ESTREL Convention Centre, Berlin, Germany, Sept 25-29, 2006.
Session Co-Chair : Oral Session ar-2-1: Concert hall acoustics; 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference - WESPAC9; Grand Hilton Seoul, Korea, 26 - 28 June 2006.
Session Organizer and Co-Chair : Oral Session ph-1-1: Ultrasound for non-destructive testing; 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference - WESPAC9; Grand Hilton Seoul, Korea, 26 - 28 June 2006.
Session Organizer and Co-Chair : Oral Session ph-3-2: Acousto-Optics and Opto-Acoustics; fundamental and applications; 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference - WESPAC9; Grand Hilton Seoul, Korea, 26 - 28 June 2006.
Session Organizer and Chair : Oral session "Acousto-optics and its applications ; IX International Conference for Young Researchers: Wave Electronics and its Applications in Information and Telecommunication Systems, Non-Destructive Testing, Security and Medicine; St Petersburg State University of Instrumentation, St Petersburg, Russia, Oct 10 2006.
Session Chair "Plenary Session B ; 12th Mexican International Congress on Acoustics - 12 Congreso Internacional Mexicano de Acustica; Sta Cruz, Tlaxcala, Mexico, 26-28 Oct 2005.
Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair : Oral session TuDpm1, Ultrasound in Anisotropic Media, Tuesday 30 Aug 2005; World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International 2005 (WCU-UI"05 - Beijing, 2005); Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China, 2005.
Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair : Oral session WeBam2, Acousto-Optics (1), 31 August, Wednesday 31 Aug 2005; World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International 2005 (WCU-UI"05 - Beijing, 2005); Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China, 2005.
Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair : Oral session WeBpm1 , Acousto-Optics (2), 31 August, Wednesday 31 Aug 2005; World Congress on Ultrasonics - Ultrasonics International 2005 (WCU-UI"05 - Beijing, 2005); Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China, 2005.
Session Co-Organizer : Assisted with the organization of two scientific sessions (for Prof. Oswald Leroy); World Congress on Ultrasonics (WCU - Paris, 2003); Paris, France, 2003.

A4. Technical Journal or Conference Referee Activities

Journals:

The Journal of the IEEE trans. on UFFC
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Applied Physics Letters
The Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation
Optics Communications
Acta Crystallographica Section A.
The Journal of electromagnetic Waves and Applications
Ultrasonics
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement
The Journal of Sound and Vibration
The Open Acoustics Journal
Acta Acustica United with Acustica
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Applied Acoustics
Rapid Prototyping
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Nanotechnology (Inst. Of Phys.)
Proceedings of the Royal Society A
Central European Journal of Physics
Journal of Composites, part A
Journal of Computational Physics
Scientific Reports (Nature)
Composite Structures
International Journal of Hysrogen Energy (Elsevier)
Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry (AMPC) (Sc. Res. Publishing)
Cryogenetics
Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (Taylor & Francis)

Congresses:

Reviewers of papers for "The 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV24 , 23-27 July 2017, London, United Kingdom.
Reviewer for "2nd Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, International multidisciplinary engineering research conference , University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, April 5-6, 2016.
Reviewer, on behalf of the editorial committee, of research papers submitted to the 12th School on Acousto-Optics and its Applications, 29 June - 3 July, 2014, Druskininkai, Lithuania.

A5. Proposal Panels and Reviews

Expert/Reviewer for "Le Studium (Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies, operating in region Centre-Val de Loire of France), Spring 2016.
Expert for Rannsóknami stö Íslands/The Icelandic Centre for Research (Ranis), Laugavegi 13, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland, 2014-2015.
Expert for Board of Regents pfund program", University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2013.
Expert for the French National Science Foundation (ANR, Agence Nationale de la Recherche), (2013-present).
Deanship of Scientific Research , King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran Saudi Arabia (2010-present).
Projet de recherche en équipe du Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT) à Québec, Canada (2011).
ISF Israeli Science Foundation (2007-2008, 2015).
GNSF Georgian National Science Foundation (2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2012).
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (2013-2014).

A6. Other Involvement

Faculty recruitment committee of the University of Lorraine (French: membre de comite de recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs à l"Université de Lorraine"), 2013 & 2019.
Listed in the NASA Langley Research Center Strategic technology Investment LSTIP Area of Aeronautical Vehicles (area 2) of the National Institute of Aerospace Associates 2014.
Faculty promotion committee of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2017.
Faculty promotion committee of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 2018.