Elected 2016 Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Citation: "For fostering the development of statistics in Latin America, and for contributions to the methodology of Bayesian objective methods and to the application of statistical methods in hydrology and tropical epidemiology".
Founding Vice-President of the American Statistical Association, Puerto Rico Chapter, Founded 2014, http : ==caaepr:weebly:com= Program Secretary of the Section: Objective Bayes, of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2019.
President of the Section: Objective Bayes, of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2014.
Elected Member of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA): January 2013.
Adjunct professor of the School of Statistics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin. (2010-present).
"Premio Luis A. Ferré Aguayo" (2009) Category: Education. Alcaldía de San Juan, PR.Program Secretary of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), 2002.
Guggenheim Fellowship (Jul.1997-Jun.1998) "Bayes Factors for Model Selection and Prediction".
President of the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics. (1997-2000)
Jose Francisco Torrealba Award (1997), to the best research record of the Universidad Simon Bolivar.
Named External Professor (adjunct professor) of the Ph.D. in Statistics of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 1996.
Named "External Full Professor" of the International Institute of Advanced Studies, Caracas, Venezuela, in 1992.
Prize to the best article (Publication # 18) of the year (1992). Area of Mathematics. Venezuelan Council for Scientific and Technological Research.
Classified Researcher Level II in 1990 (renewed in 1993, 1996 and 1999) by the Venezuelan System for the promotion of research.
Annual prize 1991 in the area of Mathematics, for Publication # 25. Granada Academy of Sciences, Spain.
Elected Ordinary Member of the International Statistical Institute, 1989.
Prize to the best article (Publication # 5) of the year (1987). Area of Engineering. Venezuelan Council for Scientific and Technological Research.
National Prize in Hydrology (Venezuela) for the book # 1 in the list of publications, 1974