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Academic Awards and Honors The CAREER Award (2012), National Science Foundation (NSF), USA One of Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and Healthcare in the World according to Deep Knowledge Analytics, 2019. Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2022 Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2022 Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023 Academic Memberships AAAS, ACM, ACM SIGBio, AIMBE, IEEE, ISCB Academic Services Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2017 - present. Associate Editor, Frontier in Bioinformatics, 2020 - present Editorial Board, Biomolecules, 2019 - present Action Editor, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2023 - present Action Editor, Neural Networks, 2019 - 2020 Review Editor, Frontiers in Genetics, 2011 - 2017 Editorial Board, Scientific Reports by Nature Publishing Group, 2014 - 2020 Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 2012 - 2017 Editorial Board, Current Synthetic & Systems Biology, 2013 - 2017 Editorial Board, ISRN Artificial Intelligence, 2012-2017 Board of Directors, Mid-South Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Soceity (MCBIOS), 2013 - 2017 Area Chair, Database and Benchmark Area, NeurIPS, 2024 Co-program chair, 2024, IEEE BIBM Session Co-Chair, 2024, ISMB Area Chair, Database and Benchmark Area, NeurIPS, 2023 Session Chair and Program Committee, 2023, ACM-BCB Program Committee, 2018-2023 ISMB Conference Program Committee, 2018 ICIBM Conference Session Co-Chair, 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Program Committee, 2016, 2017 IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) Program Committee, 2016, 2017 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) Program Committee, 2017, CAFA Session Co-Chair, 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Program Committee, 2015 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) Program Committee, 2015 Great Lake Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) Publicity Co-Chair, 2015 IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) Publicity Chair, 2014 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) Co-Chair, 2014 Workshop on Robotics Methods for Structural and Dynamic Modeling of Molecular Systems Co-Chair, KDD 2014 Workshop on Big Data Analytic Technology for Bioinformatics and Health Informatics (KDDBHI). Program Committee, 2014 Critical Assessment of Function Annotaiton(CAFA), a SIG meeting of ISMB. Program Committee, 2013 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)/ECCB. Program Committee, 2013 Computational Structral Bioinformatics Workshop. Program Committee, 2013 Automated Protein Function Annotation (CAFA), a special interest group of 2013 ISMB conference Program committee, 2013 Mid-South Bioinformatics Conference. Co-Chair, 2013 AAAI workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Methods in Computational Biology. Publicity Chair, 2013 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) Reviewer for 20+ journals and conferences A leading reviewer for the journal Bioinformatics Reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Reviewer for Canada Research Council Program Committee, 2013 IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2013) Program Committee, 2012 IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2012) Co-Session Chair, Intrinsicly Disordered Protein Session at 2012 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) Program Committee, 2011 Automated Protein Function Prediction / Critical Assessment of Function Annotations (CAFA) Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2011 (BIBM 2011) Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2010 (BIBM 2010) Program Committee, Special track on artificial intelligence and bioinformatics, 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010. Program Committee, Bioinformatics track, 20th Internatinal Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Istanbul, Turkey, 2010. Program Committee, 7th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shanghai, China, 2010. Track Chair, IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2009 (BIBM 2009) Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008) Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2008 (BIBM 2008) Chair of Genomics Session, The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP 07) Program Committee and Session Chair, IEEE 7th Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE 2007) Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2007 (BIBM 2007)