He is a principal investigator for multi-projects including direct funded and LDRD. Dr. Ding is a technical lead and steering committee member for two hydrogen-related consortia: HydroGEN of Energy Materials Network (EMN) and H2NEW under the DOE-Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)-Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Office (HFTO). Dr. Ding is an executive committee member for High-Temperature Energy, Materials, and Processes (H-TEMP) Division of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He served as an editorial advisory board member for Journal of Power Sources Advances (Elsevier), and a guest editor for a guest editor for Frontier in Materials, Frontier in Chemistry, Journal of Physics: Energy and Journal of Materials Research.