I was elected to an IEEE Fellow, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, in 2007; CAA Fellow, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), China, in 2015; and SAEng Fellow, the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, in 2020. I served as the chairman of IEEE Singapore Control Systems Chapter in 2002 and 2003; and the general chair of 5th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Budapest, Hungary, 2005; 8th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, 2010; and 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2018. I am currently serving as a member of Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation, China (2008-). I have been invited to deliver keynote and plenary speeches at international conferences held in USA, China, Canada, UK, India, Malaysia, Australia and Russia.

I was the recipient of the Best Poster Paper Award, 2nd Asian Control Conference, Seoul, Korea (1997); University Researcher Award, National University of Singapore (2000); Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, Institution of Engineers, Singapore (2001); Temasek Young Investigator Award, Defence Science & Technology Agency, Singapore (2003); Best Industrial Control Application Prize, 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia (2004); Best Application Paper Award, 7th Asian Control Conference, Hong Kong (2009); and Best Application Paper Award, 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, China (2010).