sentences:  Research project areas include genome evolution, comparative genomics, alternative splicing, and functional genomics.Haussler is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).His awards include the 2011 Weldon Memorial Prize from University of Oxford, the 2009 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Curt Stern Award in Human Genetics, the 2008 ISCB Senior Scientist Award from the International Society for Computational Biology (who also elected him an ISCB Fellow in 2009), the 2005 Dickson Prize for Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and the 2003 Association for Computing Machinery/Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Allen Newell Award in Artificial Intelligence.