Inventor of the Random Neural Network and of the Cognitive Packet Network. Fellow of IEEE, ACM, IFIP, the Royal Statistical Society, IET (UK), the French National Academy of Technologies, the Royal Academy Sciences, Arts and Letters of Belgium, and the Science Academies of Hungary, Poland and Turkey. Member of Academia Europaea. Professor Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the CNRS Laboratories I3S (Nice-Sophia Antipolis) and A.de Moivre (Imperial College). Honorary Professor UESTC (China) and Yaşar University (Turkey). Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Commandeur du Mérite (France), Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica and Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Italy), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium), Keynote speaker at the Abu Dhabi AI Summit on 13th December 2022.