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; IET Fellow; Associate Dean (Global Engagement) of Faculty of Engineering, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China; General Co-chair of International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing, 2018.

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; Senior Researcher of Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. (Sony CSL, Tokyo); Editor of Information Geometry (INGE, Springer), Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE), and Entropy (MDPI); He currently conducts research on Structures, Dynamics, and Geometric Computing for AI and Information Theory.