Honors, Awards, and Activities
  • Department of Energy Early Career Award, August 2006.
  • Program committee member, The 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 06).
  • The Roy E. Campbell Faculty Development Award, May 2006.
  • Program committee member, The Sixth Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 06).
  • Program committee member, The Fifth IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB 06).
  • Best paper award, The First International Workshop on High Performance Computing in Medicine and Biology (HIPCOMB 05).
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2005.
  • Computer Sciences Bert Kay Outstanding Dissertation Award, The University of Texas at Austin, April 2005.
  • Member of the CIPRES project.
  • RECOMB travel fellowship, March 2004.
  • James C. Brown Graduate Fellowship, February 2004.
  • Invited speaker, The Dean Scholars Honor Program, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2003.
  • George H. Mitchell/University Co-op Graduate Award for Research, April 2003.
  • Travel fellowship, National Library of Medicine, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, January 2002.
  • Student travel fellowship, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, January 2002.
  • One of my lectures was videotaped and archived by the Center for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Texas at Austin, March 2001.
  • Texas Excellence Teaching Award, College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin, February 2001.
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Computer Sciences, UT Austin, December 2000.