Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of ACM, ASME, SIAM, AIMBE and AAAS; Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science (Chair 2003-2007) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Affiliated Faculty of the Department of Mathematics, Director of Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Emphasis, the University of California Santa Barbara

Member of the National Academy of the UAE; IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; BCS Fellow; IET Fellow; Chief Scientist of Terminus Group and President of Terminus International; Founding CEO and Former Chief Scientist of Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE; Initiator and Founding Provost and Former Executive Vice President of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.

IEEE Fellow; Professor and Bradley Senior Faculty in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dean's Fellow in the College of Engineering, Founding Faculty of Innovation Campus, Co-Director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, USA; Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc); Elected Member on the Executive Committee of the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC).

IEEE Fellow; Boya Distinguished Professor at the School of Electronics, Director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Peking University, China; Recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology; Winner of the Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; Changjiang Scholars Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education of China; The National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" Scientific and Technological Innovation Leader; Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; Distinguished Professor and Dean of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Soochow University, China.

IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow; Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada; Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier1) on Intelligent Software Dependability and Compliance, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada; Director of Lero, the national Irish centre for software research hosted by the University of Limerick, Ireland; Recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Harlan Mills award (2012), the IEEE Reliability Society Engineer-of-the-Year award (2013), and the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2022).

IEEE Life Fellow; Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences; Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers; President of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China; Recipient of the Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China Computer Federation in 2009, the First Class Award in Natural Sciences for Research Excellence from the Ministry of Education, China in 2010, the Second Class Award in Natural Sciences for Research Excellence from the State Council, China in 2011, and the First Class Award in Science and Technology from the Guangdong Province in 2014.

Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE); Chief Scientist at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Research and Innovation

IEEE Fellow; President of International Society of Agromatics (ISAM); Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), and Professor at the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, USA; Recipient of the R&D100 Award from R&D Magazine in 2008, Secretary Honor Award from U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2011, the Merit Award from InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) in 2016, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from INCITS in 2022.

IAPR Fellow, Professor & Dean with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Secure Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Surrey, UK; Former Principal Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Bristol, UK; Visiting Professor at Southeast University, China.

Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; Member of the Brazilian National Academy of Engineering; Founding member of the Brazilian Society of Automatics; Awarded the title of Commander (2005) and Grand Cross (2008) of the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit; Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

IEEE Fellow; Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota

IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), City University of Hong Kong; Vice President of Educational Activities (2022 and 2023) and Conferences (2019 and 2020) of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council; Recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the IEEE T-ASE Googol Best New Application Paper Award.

ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow; Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 1999, and the test-of-time Award in ACM SIGMETRICS 2010.

Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences; Chang Jiang Scholar Awarded Professor by Ministry of Education of China; Recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Funds of China; Leading Professor of Geomatics (Surveying and Mapping) in the School of Geoscience and Info-Physics of Central South University, China.

IEEE Fellow; Recipient of ARL Honorary Award for Research Management and NSF CAREER Award; Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and for the Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Sensor Fusion and Machine Perception; Engineering Fellow at Raytheon