Southwest Jiaotong University
He was honored as Faculty Fellow and Eminent Scholar at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies at Texas A &amp; M University, and as Distinguished Professor of Multidisciplinary Engineering &amp; Computer Science, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, from 2013 to the present. He was honored as the Tsinghua Honorary Chair Professor at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan from 2009 to 2012; World-Class University Program Distinguished Visiting Professor (Type III) at Pusan National University, South Korea from 2009 to 2014. He was an honorary professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing from 2003 to 2007; Lanzhou University, China from 2013 to now; and Southwest Jiaotong University-Emei, China from 1986 and University of Patras, Greece, since 2008. He also received honorary positions at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science &amp; Technology 1988–1991, and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1996 and 1997, as the Royal Society Ping To Professor. He was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo.