Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS); Fellow of the Web Intelligence Academy (WIA); Member of the Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems of the World Economic Forum; Professor and Research Director of the Center Leo Apostel for transdisciplinary studies, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium; Recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Technology Award from the Web Intelligence; Advisory Board Member of the Human Energy foundation (California); Scientific Board Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, UM6P university, Morocco.

IEEE Fellow; HKIE Fellow; Founder/Chief Solution Officer of DeepTranslate Limited; Emeritus and Honorary Professor of Department of Computer Science at University of Hong Kong

Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences-TWAS (2025), Fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences-ABC (2023); Fellow of the Science Academy of Pernambuco State-APC (2020); Fellow of the Core Academy (International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2024);Fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance-AIIA (2024), Full Professor, Informatic Center, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

IEEE Fellow; Member of the Academia Europaea; ACM Distinguished Scientist; Fellow of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence; Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

IEEE Fellow; Senior Research Scientist (“Directeur de Recherche”) at INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation) at IRISA in Rennes, France. Head of the Lagadic group at INRIA from 2004 till 2017.

Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Fellow of U.K. Institute of Measurement & Control, Member of European Union Academy of Science, Professional Engineer Texas, Chartered Engineer U.K. University Distinguished Scholar Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair, Head of the Advanced Controls & Sensors Group, the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute.

Member of the Academia Europaea; Fellow of the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST), Kurt Goedel; Visiting Professor for Quantum Computing at TU Vienna; Managing Director of Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Computer Science and the Director of School of Data Science at Old Dominion University, USA.

IEEE Fellow; Principal Researcher and Manager of the Speech Group, Microsoft Research Asia; Visiting professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the co-director of CUHK-MSRA Joint Research Lab

ACM Fellow; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo; Recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Government of Canada

Member of Academia Europaea; Member of KHMW; Member of Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the European AI Society; Professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning in the AI Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Member of the US National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Life Fellow; INFORMS Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Fellow of the Academy of Decision, Information, and Operations Sciences; Fellow the Decision Sciences Institute; Recipient of the von Neumann Theory Prize, the Highest Honor of the INFORMS Society; Distinguished University Professor Emeritus with the School of Engineering, the Department of Applied Mathematics, and the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, USA; Chief Scientific Officer of Entanglement Inc.

IEEE Life Fellow; AAAS Fellow; IFSA Fellow; ACM Distinguished Scientist; Computer Scientist with the Cognitive Geospatial Systems, Naval Research Laboratory, NASA Stennis Space Center, USA; Recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award in 2016.

IEEE Fellow; CNRS Research Director at Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes; Head of the Telecom and Networking Research Hub

Vice Chairman of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI); IEEE Fellow; CAAI Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University; Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University.

Member of the Engineering Academy of Japan; Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies; CAAI Fellow; Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Professor with the Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, Japan

IEEE Fellow; Dean’s Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chair Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Chair Professor with Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

IEEE Life Fellow; IEICE Life Fellow; Professor Emeritus and Head of a Resilient Wireless Communication Research Group with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University; Recipient of IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award 2000, IEICE Achievement Award 2002, Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004, Prime Minister Invention Award 2010, C&C Prize 2014, IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award 2017, IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical Recognition Award 2017, APCC2019 Best Paper Award.