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).

IEEE Fellow; SUNY Distinguished Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Director of Lab for Advanced Network Design, Evaluation and Research (LANDER), State University of New York at Buffalo, USA; Former Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN), Former Chair and Founder of the IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Fiber and Wireless Integration for Access/Metro (FiWi); Pioneered optical bust switching (OBS) and integrated cellular and ad-hoc relay (iCAR) technologies. Recent research achievements in the areas of connected and autonomous vehicles, and distributed quantum computing.

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.

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS); Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES); Research Professor at the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Founding Director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory, Research Co-Director of the National AI Institute for Societal Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society, and member of the Advisory Committee for the Division of Behavioral and Social sciences and Education (DBASSE) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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.

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biomedical Engineering (IAMBE); Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES); Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre at the University of Cyprus; Leader of HealthXR-Smart, Ubiquitous, and Participatory Technologies for Healthcare Innovation in the CYENS Centre of Excellence.