1. ASME Fellow, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026.
2. First Place Paper Competition Award, 2026 Joint International Conference of the 17th International Conference on Systematic Innovation (ICSI) and the 3rd International Conference on Data Science & Exploration in Artificial Intelligence (CODE AI), Hsinchu, Taiwan. Paper: "BAT-Refined LLM-TRIZ: Structural Verification and Content-Claim Risk Assessment for Reliable TRIZ Reasoning" (Wei-Chang Yeh and D. Daniel Sheu).
3. Best Paper Award, 16th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM Ankara 2026), Ankara, Türkiye, 23–25 Jun 2026.
4. Third Place, Micro Competition, NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026, for the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Pick-and-Place Digital Twin research demonstration, 2026.
5. ASPEED Chair Professorship, National Tsing Hua University, awarded August 2025.
6. NVIDIA Academic Grant Program 2025: Awarded two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstations supporting AI, robotics, and optimization research, including AMR deployment via reinforcement learning, sensor fusion, and SSO optimization.
7. IEEE Reliability Society Education Award 2024
8. 2024 Chinese Industrial Engineering Society: Best paper award
9. NTHU Outstanding Talent Development Fund, Academic Research Incentive Awards, 2023–2025.
10. Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists database (Ioannidis et al., based on Scopus data), career-long and single-year impact, annual listings from 2020 through 2025.
11. CIIE Fellow (Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers), 2022.
12. Distinguished Research Fellow Award (傑出特約研究員, Excellence Category), Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2021.
13. International Fellow of Chinese Innovation and Invention Society, 2015.
14. 2015 Industrial Engineering Medal by Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers (Academic Contribution Category)
15. Outstanding Research Award granted by Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan, 2014.
16. 2011 University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Distinguished Visiting Scholars (DVS) funding
17. Award for Excellent Teacher, National Tsing Hua University, 2006–2013; ranked in the top 4% in 2009, 2010, and 2012.
18. Special Outstanding Talent Award in College by National Science Council Taiwan. (Oct 2010–Jul 2011).
19. Award for The Top Publication by National Tsing Hua University, 2009–2013 (school year).
20. Guoguang Invention Medal by Chinese Innovation and Invention Society, 2009.
21. Outstanding Inventor of Taiwan, Doctor of Erudition by Chinese Innovation and Invention Society, 2009.
22. 2009 Invited Researcher by Australian Academy of Science, 15 Dec 2009–30 Jun 2010, NSC 98-2911-I-007-040-2.
23. 2009 Overseas Research Fellowship awarded by National Science Council (Taiwan), NSC98-2918-I-007-003.
24. Outstanding Research Award granted by National Science Council Taiwan, 2004.
25. 2001 Overseas Research Fellowship awarded by National Science Council (Taiwan), NSC 41161F.
26. NSC Research Awards, Taiwan, 2000–2003 and 2007–2013.
1. ASME Fellow, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2026.
2. CIIE Fellow and Life Member, Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers.
3. CYCU Fellow, Chung Yuan Christian University.
4. IEEE Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
5. NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) University Ambassador, 2026.
6. NVIDIA DLI Certified Instructor, “Enhancing Data Science Outcomes with Efficient Workflow,” 2026.
7. NVIDIA Certificate of Competency, “Enhancing Data Science Outcomes with Efficient Workflow,” 2026.
8. International Fellow, Chinese Innovation and Invention Society.
9. Vice President and Board Member, International Society of Innovation Methods (I-SiM), 2026–present.
10. Professional Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
11. Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
12. Member, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).
13. Life Member, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA).
14. Member, Operations Research Society of Japan.
15. Life Member, Mathematical Society of the Republic of China.
16. Member, International Chinese Association of Quantitative Management (ICAQM).
17. Member, Phi Beta Delta International Scholars Society.
2022~, International Journal of Systematic Innovation Section Editor/ AI Executive editor
2021~, Electronics (MPDI)
2020~, IEEE Access, Associate Editor
2016~, Annals of Thyroid Research.
2016~, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Associate Editor.
2016~, International Journal of Modeling and Optimization (IJMO)
2015~, Journal of Applied Mathematics
2015, The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal, Editor-in-Chief
2013~, Reliability Engineering and System Safety (RESS)
2011~, Soft Computing with Applications (SCA), Editor-in-Chief
2013~, International Journal of Management and Marketing (IJMM): An Open Access International Journal
2011~2012, Journal of Communications and Information Sciences (JCIS)
2009~2011, Journal of Convergence Information Technology (JCIT, EI)
2008~2009, G Conference.net
2008~2009, International Journal of Reliability and Quality Performance (IJRQP)
2007~2009, International Journal of Applied Management Science (IJAMS)
2007~2009, International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies (IJDATS)
2007~2009, Journal of Quality (JOQ)
2005~2006, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers (JCIIE), Senior Editor
Keynote Speaker, ICRCICN 2021, Birbhum, India,12/11-12
Plenary Speaker, 2017 International Conference on Graphics and Signal Processing (ICGSP 2017), Singapore, 2017/06/24~06/27.
Keynote Speaker, the 2016 Second IEEE international Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCIN 2016), Kolkata, India, 2016/09/23~09/25.
Invited Speaker, BIT’s 5th Annual World Congress of Advanced Materials-2016 (WCAM-2016), Chongqing, China, 2016/6/6~6/8.
Invited Speaker, “Simplified swarm Optimization and its applications”, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied sciences, 2016/5/14.
Keynote Speaker, “The Simplified Swarm Optimization and its Variants“, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN 2015), Kolkata, India, 2015/11/20~22.
Keynote Speaker, “The Simplified Swarm Optimization and its Applications“, The 9th Multi-Disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI 2015), Fuzhou, China, 2015/11/13~15.
Invited Speaker, The University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2015/08/28.
Invited Speaker, School of Information Engineering, Chang An University, China, 2013/09/24.
Invited Speaker, Management School, Hangzhou Dianzi University, 2013/09/16.
Invited Speaker, School of Design, Communication & I.T., Chair Professor of Information, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2010/09/01.
Invited Speaker, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia, 2009/10/12.
Invited Speaker, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2009/5/1.
International Fellow of Chinese Innovation and Invention Society, 2015.
2015 Industrial Engineering Medal by Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers (Academic Contribution Category)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee
Peer Reviewer for ERA 2012 (Australian Research Council, ARC)
2011, 2012 Israel Science Foundation grant application Reviewer
2011 University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Distinguished Visiting Scholars (DVS) funding
Guoguang Invention Medal by Chinese Innovation and Invention Society, 2009.
Outstanding Inventor of Taiwan, Doctor of Erudition by Chinese Innovation and Invention Society, 2009.