Bio, Honors, and Professional Services

(2025) IMS Carver Medal
(2024) IMS Medallion Award and Lecture
(2024) Jon Wellner Lecturer, U. of Idaho
(2022) Elected Member of International Statistical Institute
(2022) UCI ICS Dean’s Award on Excellence in Research
(2021) Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
(2020-2025) Chancellor’s Professor, UCI
(2019) Data Science Founder Professor, Department of Statistics, UIUC
(2018) Hocking Lecturer, Texas A&M
(2017-2019) Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar, College of LAS, UIUC
(2016) Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
(2011, 2014) Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, Research Board, UIUC
(2011, 2014, 2017-2019) Among list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students, UIUC
(2010) Elected fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA)
(2005) Thomas T. Sugihara Young Faculty Research Award, College of Science, Oregon State University
(2004-2009) NSF CAREER Award
(1999) ENAR Student Award

Organizing Committee and Program Co-Chair (with Regina Liu): ICSDS2022, Florence, Italy, Dec. 13-16, 2022
Organizing Committee and Program Co-Chair (with Regina Liu): ICSDS2023, Lisbon, Portugal, Dec. 18-21, 2023
Organizing Committee and Program Co-Chair (with Regina Liu): ICSDS2024, Nice, France, Dec. 16-19, 2024
Organizing Committee and Program Co-Chair (with Regina Liu): ICSDS2025, Seville, Spain, Dec. 15-18, 2025
Chair of Council of Sections Governing Board (COSGB), ASA, 2025
ICSA Board of Directors, 2022-2024
IMS Fellow Committee, 2019-2022, and committee chair, 2020-2022
IMS representative to COPSS Leadership Academy Award Committee, 2020-2023
IMS Program Secretary and Executive Committee, 2021-2027
Organizing Committee Co-Chair, SLDS/Nonparametrics Conference, NYC, 2018
Section Chair, Statistical Learning and Data Science of American Statistical Association, 2017
Chair of Nomination Committee, ICSA, 2019
Chair of Biometrics Section, ICSA, 2017
Overall program chair of 2015 Joint Statistical Meeting, Seattle, 2014-2015
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods (SACATM), NIEHS/NIH, 2006-2010

Co-Editor (with Jianqing Fan and Dylan Small): JASA (Theory and Methods), 2023-2026
Area Editor: Statistics Analysis and Data Mining, 2021-2023
Associate Editor for Screening: Statistica Sinica, 2020-2026
Associate Editor: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2020-2024
Associate Editor: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2019-2021
Associate Editor: Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2013-2023
Associate Editor: New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science, 2021-2024
Associate Editor: Statistical Science, 2011-2013
Associate Editor: JASA, 2008-current
Associate Editor: Biometrics, 2006-2012
Guest Co-Editor of Statistics and Its Interface （2014)：a special issue for IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability, 2013
Guest Co-Editor of Journal of Data Science (2022-2023): a special issue on Data Science Approaches to Vaccine Effects Analysis

2025(July)- 2020-2025 2019 2011-2019 2015-2019	Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, UCSB Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, UCI Data Science Founder Professor, Department of Statistics, UIUC Professor, Department of Statistics, UIUC Affiliated Member of Institute for Genomic Biology, UIUC
2008 - 2011	Associate Professor, UIUC, Department of Statistics
2004- 2008	Associate Professor, Oregon State University, Department of Statistics
2005-2006	Visiting Associate Professor (sabbatical leave), Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
2004- 2005	Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
1999-2004	Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, Department of Statistics
1999	Assistant Staff, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology