IEEE Fellow; IFSA Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil; CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) 1-A Fellow; Former Vice-President of the International Fuzzy systems Association (IFSA); Recipient of the NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society) K. S. Fu Award in 2011.

IEEE Fellow; Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia; Professor of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at the University of Vigo; Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico