Honors, Affiliations, Journals, Conferences, etc

Honors

• ACM Fellow 2013
• AAAI Fellow, 2010
• ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2009
• ACM SIGKDD Best Paper (and Runner-Up) Awards, 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2002
• NSF CAREER Award, 1997

Center Affiliations

• Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems, UC Irvine
• Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS), UC Irvine.
• Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB), UC Irvine.
  

Editorial and Advisory Boards

• Bayesian Analysis (Advisory Board, 2006-2008)
• Journal of Machine Learning Research (Editorial Board, 2000-present)
• Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Editorial Board, 1999-present)

Associate Editor

• 2002-2004: Journal of the American Statistical Association
• 2002-2004: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• 1998-2001: Machine Learning Journal

Conference Organization

• Program Chair, 29th Uncertainty in AI Conference, Bellevue, WA, 2013
  
• Program Chair, 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Diego, August 21-24, 2011.
• Co-Chair, 2001 Symposium on the Interface of Computer Science and Statistics.
• Co-Organizer, Mathematical Challenges in Scientific Data Mining, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, January 14-18th 2002.
• Co-Chair, Sixth International Workshop on AI and Statistics, 1997