Member of the Academia Europaea; Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC); SIAM Fellow; AMS Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Director of KAUST Innovation Hub in Shenzhen, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Director of KAUST-SRIBD Joint Lab for Scientific Computing and Machine Learning, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Computational Mathematics and Applications at the Penn State University; Invited speaker at the International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2007 and the International Congress for Mathematicians in 2010.
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA); Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS); Kenneth King Stonier Chair in Business Administration, Department Chair, Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and Professor in Department of Mathematics at USC; Recipient of the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze and the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
Member of Academia Europaea; Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Foreign Member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Fellow of African Academy of Sciences; Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences; IEEE Fellow; Endowed Chair Professor at Southeast University; Professor Cao is an Endowed Chair Professor, the Dean of Science Department and the Director of the Research Center for Complex Systems and Network Sciences at Southeast University (SEU). He is also the Director of the National Center for Applied Mathematics at SEU-Jiangsu of China and the Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence of China.
IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada; Distinguished University Professor and NSERC/UNENE Senior Industrial Research Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
IEEE Fellow; Deans' Excellent Professor and Head of Robotics Engineering Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI); William B. Smith Distinguished Fellow in Robotics Engineering; Site Director of NSF I/UCRC ROSE-HUB; AIR Lab Director
IEEE Fellow; Thousand Talents Program Experts; Director and Professor of Center of Intelligent Acoustics and Immersive Communications (CIAIC) at Northwestern Polytechnical University
IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; ACM Distinguished Member; Chief Architect for Computer Vision with the Artificial Intelligence Group at Baidu
IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Director of the Advanced Intelligent Image and Vision Technology Research Center, Former Vice Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology; Chapter Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Taipei Section, Board of Governor member of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, and President of IET Taipei Local Network; General Chair of IEEE ICCE 2025, APSIPA 2023, IEEE Life Science Workshop 2020, ISPACS 2019, IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2019, IWAIT 2018, and IEEE ICCE-TW 2015.
IEEE Fellow; IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; Professor and Deputy Head for Postgraduate (Coursework) of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore.
IAPR Fellow; Director of the Key Laboratory of Social Security Information Perception and System, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China; Deputy Director of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of "Social Security Image and Video Understanding"; Professor, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Deputy Dean, Institute of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Fellow of ISEAM; Director of Academic Committee of National Key Laboratory of High-end Compressor and System Technology; Director of Technical Expert Committee of China Industrial Internet Research Institute; Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Member of Academia Europaea; IEEE Fellow; Professor at Swinburne University of Technology; Deputy Director of Swinburne Data Science Research Institute
Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of American Astronautical Society (AAS), Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Humboldt and JSPS Fellowships; Professor of Space Engineering at the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, Founding Director of Spacecraft Dynamics Control and Navigation Laboratory (SDCNLab), York University, Canada; Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and the Journal of Franklin Institute.
Academician of Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute; IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Cheung-Kong Scholar Distinguished Professor of China Education Ministry and Director of High-voltage and Insulation Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Academician and Trustee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA); Vice President of Chinese National Committee for Remote Sensing(CNCRS); Professor of the School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University; Director of the Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Intelligence Applications, Guangzhou University.
Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK); President of the Korean HCI Society from 2012 to 2014; General Conference Co-Chair of ACM SIGCHI 2015; CEO and Founder of HAII (Human AI Interaction) Inc., Korea; Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Yonsei University, Korea.
IEEE Fellow; AIMBE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis; Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
IEEE Fellow; Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft; Recipient of the Industrial Distinguished Leader at Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) in 2021 and APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award in 2023; Distinguished Industry Speaker for IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2025.