2004: Honored Alumni, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University.

2006: Honorary Fellow, American Statistical Association.

2007: Honorary Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

2010: Yakovlev Colloquium Speaker, University of Rochester, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

2011: Accredited Professional StatisticianTM

2012: 2011 International Biometrics Society Best Paper in Biometrics Award for “Detecting disease outbreaks using local spatiotemporal methods”

2015: Myra Samuels Memorial Lecturer, Purdue University, Department of Statistics

2015: Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecturer

2016: Distinguished Alumni Lecturer, University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics

2016: Plenary Speaker, Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Chapel Hill, NC

2016: Distinguished Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, Hong Kong

2016: Conference (Plenary) Speaker, SINAPE, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016: Elected Member, International Statistical Institute

2016: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science