Honors: Member, National Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, American Statistical Association Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Selected Awards: Received the Honorary D.Sc from The Ohio State University, May 2022 Inaugural Senior Breiman Award, August 2017 COPSS Fisher Award, August 2014 Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award, Cornell University, November 2009 Gottfried E. Noether Senior Researcher Award, Joint Statistics Meetings, August 2009 Received the Honorary D.Sc from the University of Chicago, June 2007 Named "Statistician of the Year" by the Chicago Chapter of ASA, 2004 IJ Schoenberg-Hilldale Chair in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004- Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003 Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, 2001 International Meetings on Statistical Climatology Achievement Award, 1998 Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Elizabeth Scott Award, 1996 First Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation, 1994 Selected Major Addresses (see TALKS link for other talks) Fisher Lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston 2014 International Conference Ars Conjectandi 1713-2011, Basel, Switzerland 2013 International Conference on Approximation Theory and Appications, Hong Kong 2013 XII Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Vina del Mar, Chile, 2012 Morningside Lecture, Fifth International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, China, December 2010 Plenary Talk, ICORS2010 International Conference on Robust Statistics, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2010 ILSONG Lecture, Fall 2008 Conference of the Korean Statistical Society, Seoul, November, 2008 JSM 2007 President's Invited Address (ASA) , July 2007 26th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI) Plenary Lecture, 2006 Wald Lecturer, Joint Statistical Meetings 2003 Foundations of Computational Mathematics Plenary Lecture 2002 C. G. Khatri Memorial Lectures, Pennsylvania State University, 2000 Keynote Speech, Interface 2000, New Orleans, 2000 Keynote Speech, IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing Meet, Madison 1999 Full oral presentation, Neural Information Processing Society Meeting (24 selected out of 474 submissions), Denver, 1998 Buehler-Martin Lectures, University of Minnesota, 1997 Neyman Lecturer, IMS Annual Meeting, 1994 SIAM Plenary Lecturer, SIAM Annual Meeting, 1994