- 1985 Bronze medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
- 1987-89 Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- 1989-94 Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation.
- 1990 Invited 45 minute address, International Congress of Mathematicians.
- 1994 Alfred S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Southern California.