He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books including Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach. During his tenure at UofL, Dr. Yampolskiy has been recognized as: Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor of the Year, Faculty Favorite, Top 4 Faculty, Leader in Engineering Education, Top 10 of Online College Professor of the Year, and Outstanding Early Career in Education award winner among many other honors and distinctions. Yampolskiy is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI); Member of Kentucky Academy of Science, and Research Advisor for Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and Associate of Global Catastrophic Risk institute (GCRI).