Honors
- Fellow, International Association of Applied Econometrics, Elected 2020.
- “Testing for Affiliation in First-Price Auctions Using Entry Behavior,” (International Economic Review, 2010, 51, 837-850, with Bingyu Zhang) Cited in “Scientific Background on the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 ” by the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
- Goh Keng Swee Visiting Professorship, National University of Singapore, 2012 – 2017.
- Visiting Fellowship for Distinguished Scholars, National University of Singapore, September – October, 2011.
- Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Social and Natural Sciences, Vanderbilt University, January, 2011 – Present.
- Fellow, Journal of Econometrics, 2010 – Present.
- Distinguished Economics and Management Alumni Lecture Series, University of Science and Technology of China, 2009.
- Winner of the Arnold Zellner Award of the Journal of Econometrics for the Best Theory Paper Published in 2000 and 2001 for the Paper “Conditionally Independent Private Information in OCS Wildcat Auctions” (Joint with I. Perrigne and Q. Vuong), 2003.
- The Zellner Award Honorable Mention by the American Statistical Association for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Business and Economic Statistics, 1998.
- Washington State University Academic Enrichment and Career Development Award, 1998.
- Regents Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, 1990.
- Guo Moruo Award (for the Highest Undergraduate Achievement), University of Science and Technology of China, 1988.