Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), American Statistical Association (ASA), Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB); Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI); Professor and Former Associate Chair of the Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, USA; Recipient of USC Mellon Mentoring award for faculty mentoring in 2012, and the USC Dornsife College senior Raubenheimer Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in the areas of research, teaching and service, in 2017.