Honors & awards

Academician (elected), Academia Sinica, 2012

( press release)

Guggenheim Fellow, 2009

Morningside Gold Medal for Applied Mathematics, 2007

The 2000 COPSS Presidents' Award

2012

Academician (elected), Academia Sinica, 2012

2011

Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

2010

Fields Institute Distinguished Lecturer in Statistical Science

2009

Guggenheim Fellow

2008-2010

President, International Chinese Statistical Association

President-elect, 08: President, 09; Past-president, 10. 2008

Laplace Lecturer, the 7th World Congress on Probability and Statistics

Distinguished Achievement Award, International Chinese Statistical Association

2007

Morningside Gold Medal for Applied Mathematics

to outstanding mathematicians of Chinese decent under age 45, honored once every 3 years, International Congress for Chinese Mathematicians. 2006-2009

President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

06-07: President-elect; 07-08: President; 08-09: Past-president 2006

Humboldt Research Awards

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

International Congress of Mathematicians

Invited speaker (45 min)

Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer

Harvard School of Public Health 2002

Vice Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award

Gold medal, Chinese University of Hong Kong 1991-2001

Top 10 most-cited mathematical scientists (Science Watch)

(Thomas In-Cites): 1993-2002, 1994-2003, 1995-2004, 1996-2005, 1997-2006 (rate stopped)

My Citations

2000

The 2000 COPSS Presidents' Award

Committee Of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), to an outstanding statistician under age 40 (American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society --- Eastern North American Region and Western North American Region Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Statistical Society of Canada)
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Before 2000

Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science.
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Fellow, American Statistical Association.
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, 1996, University of North Carolina.
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1993-96.
Evelyn Fix Memorial Medal, University of California at Berkeley, 1989.