Has served IEEE in various capacities, including service as the president of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society in 1986, and has held visiting appointments in Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Recipient of the 1973 F.E. Terman Award; the 1985 AT&T Foundation Award of the American Society of Engineering Education; the 1989 Education Award; the 2000 Mac Van Valkenburg Society Award; the Golden Jubilee Medal of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society; the Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 1989; the 1996 Technical Achievement Award; the 2001 Society Award; the 2006 Education Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society; the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000; the McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award of the IEEE Education Society in 2001; the 2002 Technical Achievement Award of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP); the 2005 SPIE Technology Achievement Award of the International Society for Optical Engineers; the University Medal of the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2005; and the 2006 James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal of the IEEE
Co-recipient of the 2000 Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) and the 2001 IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award
Recipient of honorary doctorate degrees from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, and the Technical University of Bucharest, Romania.
Honorary Professor of the Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering; member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences; member of EURASIP; an Academician of the Academy of Finland; a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; and a corresponding member of the Academy of Engineering, Mexico
