IEEE Fellow; Professor and Head of the Medical UltraSound Imaging Center of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands; Professor of medical ultrasound imaging with the University of Twente, The Netherlands; President of the Netherlands Society for Medical Ultrasound (NVMU) and national delegate of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB); Associate editor for IEEE Transactions UFFC and the Journal of Medical Ultrasonics.

Member of the Academia Europaea; Professor and Chair for Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Dresden

Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, ASME Fellow, IMAPS Fellow; Senior Advisor at DigitalBridge Group, a leading global alternative asset manager dedicated to investing in digital infrastructure; Retired Vice President of Data Center Research and Development for Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure Organization, where he led efforts developing transformative technologies for scaling cloud and AI infrastructure; Recipient of the 2017 DataCloud “Data Center Thought Leadership” Award, the iMasons “2020 Industry Luminary” Award, the 2023 Interglobix Titans List, the 2024 Northern Virginia Technology Council Data Center Icon Award, and the 2025 Data Center World Lifetime Achievement Award. He has over 170 US Patents and is also recognized as the founder of PUE, a metric used globally for measuring datacenter efficiency.

Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI); Former President of the IJCAI board of trustees; Founding member of the Artificial Intelligence Scientific Organizations Coordinating Council (AISOCC); Research Director at the CNRS, France.

Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech); Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA); Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Former President of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS); Former Vice President of European Spatial Data Research (EuroSDR); Professor of photogrammetry and remote sensing with the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

IEEE Fellow; Professor for robotics at Technische Universität Wien, Austria; Former head of the department for “Analysis and Control of Advanced Robotic Systems” in the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at DLR, Germany

ACM Fellow; IEEE fellow; Member of the Academia Europaea; Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters; Member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences; Trustee emeritus of the VLDB Endowment; Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark.

IEEE Fellow; Director of Research at Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), France; Part-time Guest Professor at Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden

Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow and Past President of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB); Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology; Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO); Co-founder of the ELIXIR European 3D-BioInfo Community; Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University College London, UK.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of DAEDALUS Research Center on Cyber-physical Systems, Smart Technologies, Robotics and Networks at the University of Cyprus.

Member of Academia Europea; Professor of Computer Science at EPFL; Recipient of Best Paper Awards at PODS 2002, ICALP 2005, SIGMOD 2011, VLDB 2014, and GPCE 2017, an Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award at CIDR 2013, a Google Research Award (in 2009), and an ERC Grant (in 2011)

Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech); Fellow of the German Informatics Society (GI); Founding President of the German University of Digital Science; Former Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI), Germany; Professor of Informatics and Founding Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty, the University of Potsdam, Germany.

IEEE Fellow; Chair Professor with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Chair of the Technical Committee Self-Driving Automobiles of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Journal; President of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2012 - 2013), Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (2009 - 2011).

INNS Fellow, Fellow Emeritus at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Scientific Advisor for KuppingerCole.

IEEE Fellow; Professor with the College of Computing and Informatics, Director of the Healthcare Informatics Research Laboratory, Drexel University, USA; Program Director in the Division of Intelligent and Information Systems (IIS) of Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at National Science Foundation, USA; Editor-in-chief of Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research (Springer) and Editor-in-chief of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier).

Fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE); Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town (UCT); He previously was the Hyman Goldberg Chair in Biomedical Engineering (1996-2010), head of department (biomedical engineering and human biology) in the Faculty of Health Sciences, deputy dean for research and postgraduate affairs, member of Council and the Senate Executive Committee, at UCT. Prior to UCT, Vaughan was professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Signal Processing and Wireless Communications, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London; Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship between 2011-2016; Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

IEEE Fellow; Professor with the College of Information and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University; Director of the Center for Power Information Technology