- 2016 "Gabor award" from the International Neural Networks Society recognizing outstanding achievements in engineering and applications of neural networks.
- IEEE Fellow, “for contributions to robustness and application-level synthesis of embedded information processing systems”, 2006
- 2016 IEEE CIS Outstanding TNNLS Paper Award for the paper titled “Just-in-Time Classifiers for Recurrent Concepts.” The award recognizes outstanding papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems in the year of 2013.
- Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2014-2016 term.
- IBM Faculty Award, 2013
- 2011 awarded Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (August 2011).
- 2003 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award “In recognition of his leadership in the fields of digital architectural design and neural networks for industrial applications.”
- IEEE Senior Member, “for contributions to robustness and application-level synthesis of embedded information processing systems”, 1999
- Plaque of appreciation from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in recognition of his leadership and service as Program Chair, 2014 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN 2014, Beijing, China, 2014.
- Plaque of appreciation from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in recognition of his leadership and service as General Chair, 2012 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN 2012, Brisbane, Australia, 2012.
- Outstanding service award Plaque as Program co-Chair of IEEE IJCNN11, San Jose’, USA, 2011.