Managing Editor of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF)
Serves on editorial boards of Applied Mathematical Finance, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics (SIFIN), Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes (SISP), Statistics & Risk Modeling, and International Journal of Financial Engineering (JFE)
Named 'Researcher to Know 2024' by the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition
Recipient of the College of Computing Dean's Excellence Award for Research, Illinois Tech, 2024
Recipient of the College of Science Dean’s Excellence Award for Teaching, Illinois Tech, Fall 2015
Recipient of the College of Science and Letters Dean’s Excellence Award for Research and Scholarship, Illinois Tech, 2011
Dissertation Fellowship from College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC
First Prize of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2000
Lead PI of NSF S-STEM grant DUE/EDU-2527602 'SPARC: Supporting Pathways for Advancing Readiness in Computing (AI, Mathematics, Cybersecurity and Statistics)', $2M, 2026–2031
PI of NSF Grant DMS-2407549 'Collaborative Research: Stochastic Modeling for Sustainable Management of Water Rights', 2024–2027
Past NSF grants: DMS-1907568/1907522, DMS-1211256, DMS-0938234, DMS-0908099
Paper 'A Note on Parameter Estimation for Discretely Sampled SPDEs' selected as one of the Stochastics and Dynamics Best Papers