Honors and awards
2020: Honorary Member of the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications
July 2019 - July 2022: Bank of America Excellence Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro
August 2014 - May 2019: Charles Wexler Endowed Professor of Statistics, Arizona State University
August 10, 2011 - September 9, 2011: Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
2005: Elected Member International Statistical Institute
2001: Elected to Fellowship in the American Statistical Association
2000: Selected as "Teacher of the Year" by the Iowa Stat-ers (the graduate student organization in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University)
2000: Elected to Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1988: Recipient of the M. G. Michael Award for Excellence in Research from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia
1982 - 1985: Recipient of three consecutive Graduate Fellowships at the University of Illinois at Chicago
1982: Received the "Doctoraal" degree cum laude at the University of Nijmegen (now Radboud University), The Netherlands