Member of The Engineering Academy of Japan; Institute Professor, Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, Japan; Professor Emerita, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan; Associate Member, Science Council of Japan; Fellow of The Virtual Reality Society of Japan; Counselor of The Japan Society of Kansei Engineering.

IEEE Life Fellow; EURASIP Fellow; Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain; Member of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona; Correspondent Member of the Northern Wesfalia Academy for Sciences and Arts (Dusseldorf, Germany); Director of the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC) in Barcelona from 2001-2021; Emeritus Professor and Vice President for Research of Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 1986–1989. Vice-Secretary General for Research, CICYT, Spain, from 1994–1996. Member of the NATO scientific committee (1997–2001). Promoter and Secretary (1995-2010) of the Spanish committee for large research facilities. Fulbright scholar at the University of Boulder, CO. (USA). Recipient of the Technical Achievement Award from Eurasip 2010.

IEEE Fellow; Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute - the UK National Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Chair Professor of Information Theory and Processing, Director of the Information, Inference and Machine Learning Lab, Co-Director of UKRI Generative Artificial Intelligence Hub, University College London, UK.

IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London; John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK; Head of the van der Schaar Lab, Founder and Director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM); Recipient of the Johann Anton Merck Award (2024), the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and the IEEE Darlington Award.

IEEE Fellow; Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications research unit, at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE), University of Oulu, Finland; Vice-chair of the Doctoral Education Committee (evaluator of Communications Engineering) and Research Integrity Adviser of the faculty; Team leader of NetSEC (Network security, trust and privacy); Associate editor in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2020-2025.

IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at Mid Sweden University, Sweden; Former Chair of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Cloud and Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications; Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, and the Journal of Information Processing Systems.

IEEE Fellow; AIMBE Fellow; Lowell C. Battershell Chair in Biomedical Imaging; Co-director of Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging; Director of Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Professor of Radiation Oncology, and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa

Member of Academia Europaea; Fellow and Vice President of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society; Fellow of Association of American Geographers; Fellow of Royal Geographical Society; Fellow of Modeling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand; Professor and Dean of the School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University; Director of the Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University; Chair of BOD of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (2025); Chair of Modeling Geographical Systems Commission of IGU (International Geographical Union); Co-Editors-in-Chief of Environmental Modelling & Software (An official journal of iEMSs); Co-Editors-in-Chief of Information Geography.

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Highly Cited Researcher 2018-2022; Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology.

IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University.

IEEE Fellow; Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA; Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and NSF Director's Award.

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Fellow of IEEE; Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering at City University of Hong Kong

ACL Fellow; Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Assistant Principal and Dean of the Institute of Computing and Intelligence at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China; Recipient of the National Science Fund of China for Distinguished Young Scholars (2015), Special Government Allowance of the State Council for Outstanding Experts in China (2017),  the 2008/2009 research achiever of the Institute for Infocomm Research and the 2002 National Infocomm Award (group) at Singapore.

IAPR Fellow and IEICE Fellow; Professor in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Hokkaido University, Japan.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of systems and control with the Engineering and Technology Institute, the University of Groningen

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology; University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences; IEEE Fellow; Director, Key Laboratory of Microelectronic Devices & Integrated Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor, Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.