IEEE Fellow; Professor of Communications Engineering and Signal Processing and Deputy Director of the Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI) at Queen’s University Belfast, U.K.; Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Physical Communication, a Senior Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Member of Academia Europaea; Senior member of the “Institut Universitaire de France”; Emeritus professor at IRISA, University of Rennes, France.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of machine learning with the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Honorary Research Director of the Belgian FNRS and the Dean of the Louvain School of Engineering

Member of the US National Academy of Medicine; Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University, School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Former Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Recipient of the 2015 Harvard Chan School’s Outstanding Mentor Award, the UW’s Brotman Award for excellence in teaching (2007), the American Public Health Association’s Abraham Lilienfeld Award for education in epidemiology (2007), the White House’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (2012), and the the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2020).

Member of The Engineering Academy of Japan; Institute Professor, Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, Japan; Professor Emerita, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan; Associate Member, Science Council of Japan; Fellow of The Virtual Reality Society of Japan; Counselor of The Japan Society of Kansei Engineering.

IEEE Life Fellow; EURASIP Fellow; Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain; Member of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona; Correspondent Member of the Northern Wesfalia Academy for Sciences and Arts (Dusseldorf, Germany); Director of the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC) in Barcelona from 2001-2021; Emeritus Professor and Vice President for Research of Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 1986–1989. Vice-Secretary General for Research, CICYT, Spain, from 1994–1996. Member of the NATO scientific committee (1997–2001). Promoter and Secretary (1995-2010) of the Spanish committee for large research facilities. Fulbright scholar at the University of Boulder, CO. (USA). Recipient of the Technical Achievement Award from Eurasip 2010.

IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London; John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK; Head of the van der Schaar Lab, Founder and Director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM); Recipient of the Johann Anton Merck Award (2024), the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and the IEEE Darlington Award.

IEEE Fellow; AIMBE Fellow; Lowell C. Battershell Chair in Biomedical Imaging; Co-director of Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging; Director of Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Professor of Radiation Oncology, and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa

Member of Academia Europaea; Fellow and Vice President of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society; Fellow of Association of American Geographers; Fellow of Royal Geographical Society; Fellow of Modeling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand; Professor and Dean of the School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University; Director of the Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University; Chair of BOD of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (2025); Chair of Modeling Geographical Systems Commission of IGU (International Geographical Union); Co-Editors-in-Chief of Environmental Modelling & Software (An official journal of iEMSs); Co-Editors-in-Chief of Information Geography.

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Highly Cited Researcher 2018-2022; Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology.

IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University.

IEEE Fellow; Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA; Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and NSF Director's Award.

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Fellow of IEEE; Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering at City University of Hong Kong

ACL Fellow; Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Assistant Principal and Dean of the Institute of Computing and Intelligence at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China; Recipient of the National Science Fund of China for Distinguished Young Scholars (2015), Special Government Allowance of the State Council for Outstanding Experts in China (2017),  the 2008/2009 research achiever of the Institute for Infocomm Research and the 2002 National Infocomm Award (group) at Singapore.

IAPR Fellow and IEICE Fellow; Professor in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Hokkaido University, Japan.

IEEE Fellow; Professor of systems and control with the Engineering and Technology Institute, the University of Groningen

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology; University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.