Dr. Tan was a recipient of an Early Career Academic Achievement Alumni Award by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Canada Research Chair, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements Award, an Ontario Early Researcher Award, an Ontario Professional Engineers Award--Engineering Medal for Young Engineer, and multiple industry awards including J.P.Morgan AI Faculty Research Awards, Meta/Facebook Research Awards, Google Faculty Research Awards, and an IBM CAS Research Project of the Year Award. Dr. Tan's co-authored papers have received ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at ASE 2020, MSR 2018, and FSE 2016; and IEEE Micro's Top Picks in 2006.

She serves or has served as program (co-)chair of FSE 2024 (one of the top 2 conferences in software engineering), FSE 2020 Visions & Reflections, ICSE 2019 SMeW, SOSP 2019 Scholarship, MSR 2017, ICSE 2017 NIER, and ICSME 2015 ERA. She was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2017-2022) and Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal (2015-2021). She is the ACM SIGSOFT Treasurer and an elected Member-at-Large.