Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow and Past President of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB); Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology; Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO); Co-founder of the ELIXIR European 3D-BioInfo Community; Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University College London, UK.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of DAEDALUS Research Center on Cyber-physical Systems, Smart Technologies, Robotics and Networks at the University of Cyprus.

Member of Academia Europea; Professor of Computer Science at EPFL; Recipient of Best Paper Awards at PODS 2002, ICALP 2005, SIGMOD 2011, VLDB 2014, and GPCE 2017, an Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award at CIDR 2013, a Google Research Award (in 2009), and an ERC Grant (in 2011)

Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech); Fellow of the German Informatics Society (GI); Founding President of the German University of Digital Science; Former Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI), Germany; Professor of Informatics and Founding Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty, the University of Potsdam, Germany.

IEEE Fellow; Chair Professor with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Chair of the Technical Committee Self-Driving Automobiles of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Journal; President of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2012 - 2013), Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (2009 - 2011).

INNS Fellow, Fellow Emeritus at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Scientific Advisor for KuppingerCole.

Fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE); Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town (UCT); He previously was the Hyman Goldberg Chair in Biomedical Engineering (1996-2010), head of department (biomedical engineering and human biology) in the Faculty of Health Sciences, deputy dean for research and postgraduate affairs, member of Council and the Senate Executive Committee, at UCT. Prior to UCT, Vaughan was professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Signal Processing and Wireless Communications, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London; Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship between 2011-2016; Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

IEEE Fellow; Professor with the College of Information and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University; Director of the Center for Power Information Technology

IEEE Fellow; ACM Distinguished Member; Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science, at The University of Hong Kong; Associate Editor of ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking; Recipient of an Amazon Research Award on AWS AI in 2021.

IEEE Fellow; Chair and Mary Lou Clarke Endowed Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Dr. Qian is a recipient of 2003 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and one of the inaugural recipients of the University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2009. He received the 3rd Best Paper Award in the ISA (International Society of Automation) Power Industry Division Symposium (2011) and the Best Poster Paper Award in the 3rd IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (2013). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Automatica and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.

Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Fellow of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence; Director of National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture (NERCITA); Chief Scientist at the National Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture (NERCIEA); Vice Chairman of the Beijing Association for Science and Technology (BAST).

Academician of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA); Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of Stavanger (UiS); Head of the Data-centered and Secure Computing (DSComputing) at UiS

IEEE Fellow; Professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, USA; Founder and Director of ODU’s Cybersecurity, Communications & Networking Innovation Lab; Recipient of the IEEE Big Data Security Leadership Award in 2024.

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering; Principal Research Officer with the National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada; Adjunct Professor with Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.

IEEE Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Adjunct Associate Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE); Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR); Professor in Vision & Signal Processing, Co-Director of the SAIVT Lab (Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Vision Technologies), Associate Dean of Research of the Faculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Recipient of an Australian Institute of Policy and Science Young Tall Poppy, an Australian Museum Eureka Prize winner, Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Award, QLD’s Top 50 Best and Brightest, Australian Defence Scientist of the Year, and a Senior Fulbright Scholar.

ELLIS Fellow (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems); Member of Sigma Xi; Professor with the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Co-leader of the Computational Intelligence Group, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain; Co-director and founder of the ELLIS Unit Madrid.