He is the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine “Outstanding Paper Award”, the 2016 IEEE IEEE Computational Intelligence Society “Outstanding Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Paper Award”, the Best Regular Paper Award at the INNS Conference on Big Data 2016 and the 2021 "Outstanding Associate Editor" of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. His research interests include embedded and edge AI, intelligent embedded and cyber-physical systems, learning in presence of concept-drift and privacy-preserving machine and deep learning.