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.

Elected Member of the Académie des Sciences in 2025; ACL Fellow; Senior research scientist (Director of Research First Class) at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications (LORIA), France; Former Chair of the ACL European chapter and the ACL SIGGEN (ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation); Former Editor-in-chief of the journals "Traitement Automatique des Langues" and "Language and Linguistic Compass (Computational and Mathematical Section)"; Recipient of the CNRS Silver Medal in 2022.

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.

Member of the German National Academy of Sciences; IEEE Fellow; ELLIS Fellow; Research Director with INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation) Grenoble; Head of the THOTH project team at INRIA, Montbonnot, France; Recipient of the Longuet-Higgins prize in 2006, 2014 and 2016 and the Koenderink prize in 2018, an ERC advanced grant in 2013, the Humbolt research award in 2015, the Inria & French Academy of Science Grand Prix in 2016, the Royal Society Milner award in 2020 and the PAMI distinguished researcher award in 2021

ACM Fellow; Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC); Director of the Software and Languages Research Group and Director of Graduate Studies for the Computer Science Department at UCSC

SIAM Fellow; Professor of Computational Finance and Head of the Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Co-author of two books ("Multigrid" 2001, and "Mathematical Modeling and Computation in Finance", 2019); Methods he co-developed include: the COS method, SWIFT (Shannon Wavelet Inverse Fourier Transform method) , SGBM (Stochastic Grid Bundling Method), SCMC (Stochastic Collocation Monte Carlo Method), and the Seven-League scheme (7L).

ACM Fellow; Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI); Member of Academia Europaea; Distinguished Professor and Former Dean of Ying Wu College of Computing, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

AAAI Fellow; ACM Fellow; Keston Executive Director of the Information Sciences Institute, Research Professor of both Computer Science and Spatial Sciences, and Vice Dean of Engineering at the University of Southern California; Past President and Trustee of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI); Winner of the Robert S. Engelmore Award

Member of Academia Europaea; Member of New York Academy of Sciences; Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Auckland

IEEE Fellow; ACM Distinguished Scientist; Chancellor’s Professor of Software Engineering in the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, Director of the Master of Software Engineering Program, University of California, Irvine, USA; Recipient of the 2016 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest and the 2017 ECOOP Test of Time Award.

AAAI Fellow; ACM Distinguished Member; Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Human-AI Interaction reading group at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada.