Professor "de Classe Exceptionnelle" at the "Ecole Centrale de Lille", France

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (from 1996).

Fellow of the Russian Academy of Non-Linear Sciences (from 1996).

Permanent Guest Professor of the Tianjin University, China (from 1996).

Vice-president of the IFAC technical committee on Large Scale Systems (since 2008)

“Honorary Member of the Senate” of the AGORA University of Romania (since May 2008)

Vice president of the “IEEE France Section” (2002-2010)

President of “IEEE France Section” (2011-2014)

President of the SMC Society in 2000 and 2001

President of the SMC-nomination committee in 2002 and 2003

President of the SMC-Awards and Fellows committee in 2004 and 2005

Member of the Advisory Board of the “IEEE Systems Journal”

Associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics (1992-2001)

Member of the IEEE Fellows Committee (2008- 2010)

IMACS Vice President (1988-1994)

Vice President of the SEE (French Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) from 2000 to 2006

President of the ? System area ? SMC committee from 1997 to 2000

1994, 1998 and 2002 Outstanding Awards from the IEEE/SMC Society

Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE/SMC in 1998

Third Millennium Medal of IEEE in 2000

IEEE/SMC Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award in 2003

Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) the “WAC Lifetime Achievement Award? from the World Automation Conference in 2012

Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Men of Science in 2013

Romania the “Henri Coanda prize“ for applied sciences in 2015