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Academic Awards The Junior Faculty Research Award (2012), College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia. The CAREER Award (2012 - 2017), National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. Academic Memberships AAAS, ACM, ACM SIGBCB, IEEE, ISCB Academic Services 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 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference Editorial Board, Frontiers in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Editorial Board, ISRN Artificial Intelligence 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) Program Committee, 2013 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB/ECCB) Conference 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)