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

Member of Academia Europaea; IEEE Fellow; SPIE Fellow; IET Fellow; BCS Fellow; Dean of the School of Computer Science, China Univ. of Geosciences

IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; The recipient of IEEE Information Theory Society Paper award, NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award; He works in the general area of information theory, statistical inference, data processing, wireless communications and networks

IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI); Truchard Foundation Chair in Engineering in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, USA; Recipient of NSF CAREER award (1996), UT Austin Engineering Foundation Faculty Award (2001), Halliburton, Brown and Root Engineering Foundation Young Faculty Award (1999), University of Texas Alumni Association Teaching Award (2004), The Pennsylvania State University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus (2011), and Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award (2023).

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

IEEE Life Fellow; IET Fellow; Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000; Honorary Graduate, City St George's, University of London, UK, 2005; Former Director of Research and Development Centre, State Grid Energy Research Institute, Beijing, China; Former Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Former University Distinguished Professor, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

IEEE Fellow; Professor and Scientific head of the Networks and Cyber Physical Systems Lab, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), University of Quebec, Canada; Recipient of NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) award and INRS Director’s award for excellent academic performance; Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.