IEEE Fellow; Lawrence R. Quarles Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering (By Courtesy), Head of the Virginia Image and Video Analysis Laboratory, at the University of Virginia, USA; 2018 Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2014 to 2018.

Former ISCA President and Board Member; Professor and Former Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at TU Berlin, Germany; Scientific Director with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Head of the Department “Speech and Language Technology” at DFKI, Germany

Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech); Member the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Member of the US National Academy of Engineering; AAAI Fellow; EurAI Fellow; Professor Sebastian Thrun is the Godfather of Self-Driving Cars. Thrun led the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and served as a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University from 2003 to 2011. In 2010, he founded Google X, Google's innovation factory, where he founded Waymo, the world's leading self driving car company, and Google Brain, the world's leading deep learning organization. Thrun also launched the very first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), which led to a revolution in the space of online learning. Thrun founded three companies, Udacity, Cresta, and Kittyhawk, all of which became unicorns. Thrun has authored over 400 scientific papers along with 12 books. His h-index ranks him as the 14th most influential scientist in the field of computer science.

IEEE Fellow; IEICE Fellow; ITE Fellow; IPSJ Fellow; Visiting Senior Distinguished Engineer at NTT Corporation and Professor at Hosei University, Japan; Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; Executive Committee Member of IEEE Tokyo Section, Japan Council and Region 10 (Asia-Pacific).

IEEE Fellow; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Multimedia Information Analysis Laboratory at University of Kentucky

Fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology; IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Hyundai-Kia Motor Chair Professor at Korea University; Chairman of the Department of Artificial Intelligence; Director of Korea University Institute for Artificial Intelligence; President of AI Graduate School Council; Chairman of Seoul AI Development Council

Member of Academia Europaea; Fellow of MRS, APS, MSA, IoP, IEEE, Foresight Institute, and AVS; Weston Fulton professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (starting 2023), following 20 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and sabbatical at Amazon; Recipient of the Blavatnik Award for Physical Sciences (2018), RMS medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy (2015), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2009); Burton medal of Microscopy Society of America (2010); 4 R&D100 Awards (2008, 2010, 2016, and 2018).

Academician of Academia Europea; IAPR Fellow; IAPR Former Vice President; Academician of International Academy of Information Processes and Technologies; Academician of Belarusian Academy of Engineering; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Academician of Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors; Academician of European Academy of Economy and Enterprise Management; Academician of Russian Space Academy; Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Academician of Spanish Royal Academy of Economics and Finance; Former Rector and Professor of Belarusian State University; Chief Scientist of United Institute of Informatics Problems (UIIP), Minsk, Belarus

Fellow of IEEE, EAMBES, IAMBE and AIMBE; Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, B-cube, Biosignals, Bioimaging, Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering - DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Member of Ethical Committee, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Chairman of “Bioengineering Commission”, Engineer Order of Milano Province, former Chairman IEEE Italian Chapter on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), up to 2023.

IAPR Fellow; Fellow of the ELLIS European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems; Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, head of the Informatics degree, Universitat de Barcelona

IEEE Life Fellow; EURASIP Fellow; IET Fellow; Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE); Former President of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP); Professor emeritus in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Distinguished professor at Aalborg University, Denmark

IEEE Fellow; Professor, Director of Center for Information and Communication Technology (CICT) of University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada; IEEE Fellow; Professor with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto; Founder and the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto

Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA); Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc); Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI); Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE); Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Convenor of Stochastic Systems Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, India.

IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Vice Chair of IEEE Data Compression Standard Committee; Tencent Distinguished Scientist, General Manager of Tencent Media Lab, General Manager of Tencent Video Platform Technologies, Vice President of Tencent Cloud.

Fellow of Engineering New Zealand; IEEE Fellow; ASME Fellow; IMechE Fellow; Fellow of The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand; Chair of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Director of the Mechatronics and Robotics programme and Director of the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the University of Leeds, UK.