Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA); Member of Academia Borealis, Northern Norway Academy of Science; Professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Head of the Health Informatics and Technology group (HIT), University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway; Professor (Senior Researcher) at The Helgeland Hospital Trust, Norway.

IEEE Fellow; ACM Distinguished Member; Professor and holder of the Eppright Professorship in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University; Director of the SUCCESS (Secure Communication and Computer Systems) Lab at TAMU; Recipient of 2010 NSF CAREER Award, 2013 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, Presidential Impact Fellow, Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 Faculty Fellow, TEES Faculty Fellow, TEES Research Impact Award, and Google Faculty Research Award.

Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; ACM Distinguished Scientist; Professor of AI and Director of Machine Perception and Learning (MAPLE) lab, Westlake University.

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Distinguished Professor and the Dean of the Research Institute of Smart Transportation, Xidian University.

Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE); MSU Research Foundation Professor in the Departments of Mathematics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, USA.

IRSS Fellow; I2CICC Fellow; WIA Fellow; CAAI Fellow; CCF Fellow; President of Chongqing Normal University, China; Former President of International Rough Set Society (IRSS); Former Vice Chairmen of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).

Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters; IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Full Professor with the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu; Academy Professor with the Academy of Finland.

IEEE Fellow; ELLIS Fellow; Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences; ERC grantee; IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; Panel member of the European Science Foundation (ESF); Professor in Electrical Engineering in the University of Valencia, Spain; Head of the Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group at the University of Valencia.

Member of the US National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers; Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Logistics & Supply Chains; Regents' Professor Emeritus in Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech and Co-Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation & Research Center.

IEEE Fellow; AIMBE Fellow; AAPM Fellow; IOMP Fellow; Chief Physicist and Head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital; Professor at the Medical School of Geneva University; Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Groningen.

Member of European Academy of Sciences; Chief research scientist at the Norwegian Computing Centre

IEEE Fellow; Vice-President of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (IEEE SMC); Editor-in-Chief of IEEE SMC Magazine (2022); Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Director of the Collaborative Systems Laboratory (CoSys Lab), Nipissing University, Canada; Affiliate Professor with Concordia University and Adjunct Professor with Laurentian University, Canada.

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Receipt of China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists; Professor and Associate Dean, School of Computer and Communications Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

IEEE Fellow; Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech

Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore; IEEE Fellow; ISCA Fellow; Presidential Chair Professor and Executive Dean of the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China; Recipient of the President's Technology Award 2013 in Singapore; Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing during 2015–2018; President of the International Speech Communication Association during 2015-2017, President of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association during 2015-2016, and President of Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing during 2017-2018; General Chair of ACL 2012, INTERSPEECH 2014, ASRU 2019, and ICASSP 2022.