IEEE Fellow; Principal Researcher and Manager of the Speech Group, Microsoft Research Asia; Visiting professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the co-director of CUHK-MSRA Joint Research Lab

ACM Fellow; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo; Recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Government of Canada

Member of Academia Europaea; Member of KHMW; Member of Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the European AI Society; Professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning in the AI Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Member of the US National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Life Fellow; INFORMS Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Fellow of the Academy of Decision, Information, and Operations Sciences; Fellow the Decision Sciences Institute; Recipient of the von Neumann Theory Prize, the Highest Honor of the INFORMS Society; Distinguished University Professor Emeritus with the School of Engineering, the Department of Applied Mathematics, and the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, USA; Chief Scientific Officer of Entanglement Inc.

IEEE Life Fellow; AAAS Fellow; IFSA Fellow; ACM Distinguished Scientist; Computer Scientist with the Cognitive Geospatial Systems, Naval Research Laboratory, NASA Stennis Space Center, USA; Recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award in 2016.

IEEE Fellow; CNRS Research Director at Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes; Head of the Telecom and Networking Research Hub

Vice Chairman of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI); IEEE Fellow; CAAI Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University; Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University.

Member of the Engineering Academy of Japan; Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies; CAAI Fellow; Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Professor with the Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, Japan

IEEE Fellow; Dean’s Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chair Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Chair Professor with Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

IEEE Life Fellow; IEICE Life Fellow; Professor Emeritus and Head of a Resilient Wireless Communication Research Group with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University; Recipient of IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award 2000, IEICE Achievement Award 2002, Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004, Prime Minister Invention Award 2010, C&C Prize 2014, IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award 2017, IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical Recognition Award 2017, APCC2019 Best Paper Award.

Member of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea); Senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy; Professor at A.I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter, UK. Published books include Virtual Theatres (2004); The Politics of New Media Theatre (2007); Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, co-authored with Nick Kaye (2011); Performing Mixed Reality, co-authored with Steve Benford (2011); Archive Everything (2016); and Technologies of the Self-Portrait (2022). Prof. Giannachi is currently working on a book on AI with Michael Shanks at Stanford University. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

IAPR Fellow; Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; Former Director of Research of the Italian National Research Council (CNR); Former President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition; Pattern Recognition Letters co-Editor in Chief 2000-2020

IEEE Fellow; Professor of audio signal processing at Telecom-Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Scientific co-director of the Hi! PARIS interdisciplinary center on artificial intelligence and data analytics; Past chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee for Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing.

IEEE Fellow; Chair Professor in Connected Systems and Head of Connected Systems Group in the School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK; Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, UK; Highly-Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics in 2019; World Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University research (2021, 2022); Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE); Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc); IET Fellow; IETE Fellow; Fellow of Institute of Engineers (IE), India; Professor and Research Advisor at C V Raman Global University-Odisha, Bhubaneswar, India; Former Deputy Director and Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar; Former Dean (Administration) and Head of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela; Former Director of the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur; Top 2% Scientist of the world from the Stanford University in the area of AI&ML (2021 to 2024).

IEEE Fellow; ChangJiang Chair Professor, awarded by Ministry of Education, China; Chair Professor of Mechatronic Engineering at City University of Hong Kong