American Statistical Association's Snedecor Award for best publication in Biometry for 1986 (1987)
American Public Health Association's Spiegelman Award (1990)
Member of Alpha Chapter, Delta Omega Society (1991)
Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association (1995)
Advising, Mentoring and Teaching Recognition Award, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (1997)
2000 Bernard G. Greenberg Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina (2000)
Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (2002)
Distinguished Alumni Award, National Tsing-Hua University (2006)
American Public Health Association's Rema Lapouse Award (2010)
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)(2012)
Internaitional Statistical Institute’s Karl Pearson Prize (2015)
Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, U.S.A. (2015)
The Heritage Award, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association (2016)
Elected Member, Society of Scholars, Johns Hopkins University (2016)
One of 50 University of Washington (UW) alumni recognized as changemakers for distinguished service and achievement across public health disciplines in celebrating UW School of Public Health's 50th anniversary (2020)