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

AAAI President; AAAI Fellow; EurAI Fellow; IBM fellow and IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA

AAAI Fellow; EurAI Fellow; IJCAI Trustee and KR Inc Board of Directors Member; Former Royal Academy of Engineering/JP Morgan Research Chair on Argumentation for interactive explainable AI (2021-25); Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Computing, member of the Artificial Intelligence research theme and leader of the CLArg (Computational Logic and Argumentation) research group, member of the GLAM research group and of the Artificial Intelligence Network of Excellence, founder and co-director of the Centre for eXplainable AI (XAI), Imperial College London, UK; Recipient of an ERC Advanced grant on Argumentation-based Deep Interactive EXplanations (ADIX) and an ERC Proof of Concept on Causal Argumentative Learning Assistant (CArLA); General chair for IJCAI-ECAI 2026.

IEEE Fellow; ASME Fellow; IFAC Fellow; SIAM Fellow; Former President of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Former Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory; Distinguished Professor and Former Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Member of The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW); Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Academic Director of the Center for Learning Sciences (LEARN), Head of the Mobile Robotic Systems Group (MOBOTS), the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

EurAI Fellow; Vice Rector and delegate for Teaching of the University of Calabria, Italy; Professor of computer engineering at the Department of Computer Engineering, Modelling, Electronics and Systems, the University of Calabria; His research interests are computational complexity, game theory, (hyper) graph theory, constraint satisfaction, logic programming, knowledge representation, non-monotonic reasoning, and database theory. His paper “Pure Nash Equilibria: Hard and Easy Games” received the 2008 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize. His paper “Hypertree Decompositions and Tractable Queries” received the 2009 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award. In 2016, his paper “Hypertree Decompositions: Questions and Answers” was invited for the special Gems of PODS session, at the 35th ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.

IEEE Fellow; Director of the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), the National Research Council (CNR), Naples, Italy; General Chair of the International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar 2007 and General Co-Chair of the Ground Penetrating Radar Conference 2010; Scientific Coordinator of the FP7 ISTIMES and AMISS projects and the technical manager of the H2020 HERACLES project; Former President of the Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

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.