IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Stony Brook University, USA; Recipient of NSF CAREER award, Google Faculty Research Award, IBM Research Division Award, five IBM Invention Achievement Plateau awards, three Stony Brook CEAS Dean’s Millionaires’ Club Awards, Best Paper Awards for IEEE ICCP, ACM BCB, IEEE ICHI.

Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering; AIMBE Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Fellow of Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum; Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America; Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Sciences, and Otolaryngology and Director of Center for Hearing Research at the University of California Irvine

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Professor in the Division of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

AAAI Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Telecommunications, Head of the Signal Processing and Recognition Laboratory and Dean of Undergrad and Grad Studies at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy; Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, the International Journal of Remote Sensing, and MDPI Remote Sensing.

Life Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada; Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering; Professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and the Director of the Robotics, Mechatronics, and Automation Laboratory (RMAL) at Toronto Metropolitan University

IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Control/Robotics Research Laboratory (CRRL), Member of the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), New York University, USA; Co-Director of Center for AI and Robotics at NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

IEEE Fellow; Global Lead of Perception AI, Qualcomm AI Research; Former Full Tenured Professor in the Research School of Engineering, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra; Former Technical Vice Presiden of Futurewei (Huawei USA)

Fellow of the IEEE; Fellow of the SPIE; Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, USA; Director of the Multimodal Sensing and Imaging Laboratory at Temple University; Past Chair of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications Committee.

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), American Statistical Association (ASA), Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB); Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI); Professor and Former Associate Chair of the Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, USA; Recipient of USC Mellon Mentoring award for faculty mentoring in 2012, and the USC Dornsife College senior Raubenheimer Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in the areas of research, teaching and service, in 2017.

IEEE Fellow; IFSA Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil; CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) 1-A Fellow; Former Vice-President of the International Fuzzy systems Association (IFSA); Recipient of the NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society) K. S. Fu Award in 2011.

IEEE Fellow; Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia; Professor of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the University of Vigo; Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Electromagnetics, Director of the Antennas and Metamaterials Research Lab, Department of Industrial, Electronic, Mechanical Engineering, ROMA TRE University, Italy; Executive Director of the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials–METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL.

ACM Fellow; Fellow at the ISI Foundation in Torino, Italy; Luddy Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, director of the Observatory on Social Media, and a member (and former director) of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research; Fellow of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, Senior Research Fellow of the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University.

IEEE Fellow; Professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory, Former Associate Head of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Recipient of the 2025 Rössler Prize, the highest scientific award at ETH Zürich across all disciplines, as well as the distinguished young research awards by IFAC (Manfred Thoma Medal 2020) and EUCA (European Control Award 2020); Council member of the European Control Association and senior editor of Automatica.

Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors; IEEE Fellow; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at California State University – Long Beach; Dean of the College of Engineering at California State University – Long Beach (2007-2020)

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; IAPR Fellow; Professor of computer science and former Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science with the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia