Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech); Member the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Member of the US National Academy of Engineering; AAAI Fellow; EurAI Fellow; Professor Sebastian Thrun is the Godfather of Self-Driving Cars. Thrun led the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and served as a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University from 2003 to 2011. In 2010, he founded Google X, Google's innovation factory, where he founded Waymo, the world's leading self driving car company, and Google Brain, the world's leading deep learning organization. Thrun also launched the very first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), which led to a revolution in the space of online learning. Thrun founded three companies, Udacity, Cresta, and Kittyhawk, all of which became unicorns. Thrun has authored over 400 scientific papers along with 12 books. His h-index ranks him as the 14th most influential scientist in the field of computer science.

Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology; Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea; Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering for the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE); Vice President for the Polymer Society of Korea; Seok Cheon Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea; Founder and CEO of PHI BIOMED Co.; Recipient of the Science and Technology Medal of Korean President in 2024, the Best National Convergence Technology Award in 2023, the prestigious Medical Industry Grand Prize and Song-Gok Science & Technology Award in 2022, the Controlled Release Society Award in 2018, the Minister of Health and Welfare Award in 2017, and the Korean President Award in 2015.

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; IET Fellow; IETE Fellow; IACSIT Fellow; Distinguished Speaker of IEEE Computer Society; Professor of Data Science in the Faculty of Applied Computing and Technology, Noroff University College, Norway; Professor of Data Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Lebanon.

IEEE Fellow; IEICE Fellow; ITE Fellow; IPSJ Fellow; Visiting Senior Distinguished Engineer at NTT Corporation and Professor at Hosei University, Japan; Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; Executive Committee Member of IEEE Tokyo Section, Japan Council and Region 10 (Asia-Pacific).

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Multimedia Information Analysis Laboratory at University of Kentucky

Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST); Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea; Recipient of the IAAM Scientist Award from the International Association of Advanced materials in 2015.

Fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology; IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Hyundai-Kia Motor Chair Professor at Korea University; Chairman of the Department of Artificial Intelligence; Director of Korea University Institute for Artificial Intelligence; President of AI Graduate School Council; Chairman of Seoul AI Development Council

Member of Academia Europaea; Fellow of MRS, APS, MSA, IoP, IEEE, Foresight Institute, and AVS; Weston Fulton professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (starting 2023), following 20 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and sabbatical at Amazon; Recipient of the Blavatnik Award for Physical Sciences (2018), RMS medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy (2015), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2009); Burton medal of Microscopy Society of America (2010); 4 R&D100 Awards (2008, 2010, 2016, and 2018).

Academician of Academia Europea; IAPR Fellow; IAPR Former Vice President; Academician of International Academy of Information Processes and Technologies; Academician of Belarusian Academy of Engineering; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Academician of Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors; Academician of European Academy of Economy and Enterprise Management; Academician of Russian Space Academy; Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Academician of Spanish Royal Academy of Economics and Finance; Former Rector and Professor of Belarusian State University; Chief Scientist of United Institute of Informatics Problems (UIIP), Minsk, Belarus

Fellow of IEEE, EAMBES, IAMBE and AIMBE; Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, B-cube, Biosignals, Bioimaging, Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering - DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Member of Ethical Committee, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Chairman of “Bioengineering Commission”, Engineer Order of Milano Province, former Chairman IEEE Italian Chapter on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), up to 2023.

IAPR Fellow; Fellow of the ELLIS European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems; Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, head of the Informatics degree, Universitat de Barcelona

IEEE Life Fellow; EURASIP Fellow; IET Fellow; Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE); Former President of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP); Professor emeritus in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Distinguished professor at Aalborg University, Denmark

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute; Chair Professor of Robotics within the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh; Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; Programme Director for Robotics and AI at The Alan Turing Institute; Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, co-funded by Microsoft Research; Adjunct Faculty of the University of Southern California (USC), USA and Visiting Research Scientist at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs, Japan; Winner of the 2015 Tam Dalyell Prize.

Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST); Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean of Research Affairs of the School of Engineering, Head of the SNU Engineering Consulting Center, Associate Head of the Institute of Engineering Research, Head of the Wearable Soft Electronics Lab, Seoul National University, South Korea.

IEEE Fellow; Professor, Director of Center for Information and Communication Technology (CICT) of University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada; IEEE Fellow; Professor with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto; Founder and the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto

IEEE Fellow; J.C.Bose National Fellow; Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA); Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc); Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI); Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE); Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Convenor of Stochastic Systems Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, India.