IEEE Life Fellow; IFAC Fellow; Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA); Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE); Choh-Ming Li Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Associate Dean of Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Foreign Fellow of Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ); IEEE Fellow; Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Director of the Intelligent Big Data System (iBDSys) Lab, Director of the Blockchain Research Centre, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

IEEE Fellow; ACM Distinguished Scientist; ACM Distinguished Speaker; Director of the International Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Chair Professor with the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China.

ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar; Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University; Director of Tsinghua-CAE Joint Research Center for Knowledge & Intelligence.

IEEE Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Member of Academia Europea; ACM Distinguished Scientist; Laura H. Carnell Professor of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Director of the Center for Networked Computing, Temple University.

IEEE Fellow; Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) of the School of Science and Engineering, Vice Director of the Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii-Shenzhen), and Vice Director of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Future Networks of Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China; Vice Chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC), and the Vice Co-chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI) on ISAC; Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society.

Member of Academia Europaea; Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI); ACM Fellow; AAAI Fellow; IEEE Fellow; SPIE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science with the University of Rochester; Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia for a 3-year term (2020-2022); Recipient of ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award (2021), IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award (2018) and Eastman Innovation Award (2004).

Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences; Academician of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetics Sciences; Professor at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor at School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

IEEE Fellow; Professor and Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology; Deputy Director of the Faculty of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Qilu University of Technology

Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow; Founding Fellow and Vice President of The Web Intelligence Academy (WIA); ACM Distinguished Scientist; BCS Fellow; Chair of IEEE Technical Community on Intelligent Informatics (TCII); Tier 1 York Research Chair Professor of Big Data Analytics and Director of the Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Research Lab, School of Information Technology, York University, Canada.

Fellow of European Academy of Sciences; Fellow of European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology; Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects; Fellow of the UK Safety and Reliability Society; Chairman of UK-Malaysia University Consortium (UK-MUC); Professor of Marine Technology, Director of Liverpool Logistics, Offshore and Marine (LOOM) Research Institute, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Member of the Academia Europaea; Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC); SIAM Fellow; AMS Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Director of KAUST Innovation Hub in Shenzhen,  Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Director of KAUST-SRIBD Joint Lab for Scientific Computing and Machine Learning, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Computational Mathematics and Applications at the Penn State University; Invited speaker at the International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2007 and the International Congress for Mathematicians in 2010.

Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA); Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS); Kenneth King Stonier Chair in Business Administration, Department Chair, Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and Professor in Department of Mathematics at USC; Recipient of the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze and the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

Member of Academia Europaea; Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts;  Foreign Member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Fellow of African Academy of Sciences; Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences; IEEE Fellow; Endowed Chair Professor at Southeast University; Professor Cao is an Endowed Chair Professor, the Dean of Science Department and the Director of the Research Center for Complex Systems and Network Sciences at Southeast University (SEU). He is also the Director of the National Center for Applied Mathematics at SEU-Jiangsu of China and the Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence of China.

IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada; Distinguished University Professor and NSERC/UNENE Senior Industrial Research Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

IEEE Fellow; Deans' Excellent Professor and Head of Robotics Engineering Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI); William B. Smith Distinguished Fellow in Robotics Engineering; Site Director of NSF I/UCRC ROSE-HUB; AIR Lab Director

IEEE Fellow; Thousand Talents Program Experts; Director and chief scientist of Center of Intelligent Acoustics and Immersive Communications (CIAIC) at Northwestern Polytechnical University; Professor in School of Marine Science and Technology in Northwestern Polytechnical University

IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; ACM Distinguished Member; Chief Architect for Computer Vision with the Artificial Intelligence Group at Baidu