Honours:
- Corresponding member of The Romanian Academy (since 2018) (www.acad.ro, www.acad.ro, www.acad.ro).
- Corresponding Member of The Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania (since 2018) (ASTR).
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary (since 2019) (uni-obuda.hu).
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary (since 2019) (uni-archiv.sze.hu).
- Recipient of the Elsevier Scopus Award for Excellence in Global Contribution (2017) for research in area of Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (www.agerpres.ro, www.opiniatimisoarei.ro, avizier.upt.ro, www.descopera.ro).
- Named a 2022 academic data leader by Chief Data Officer (CDO) Magazine, according to the 2022 List of Leading Academic Data Leaders (www.cdomagazine.tech) published by CDO Magazine in February 2022 (twitter.com).
- Featured in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 World's Top 2% Scientists List, according to a Stanford University study, journal.pbio.3000918, with the updates generally accessible in data.mendeley.com (the last one in October 2023), and the 2020 version (as of October 2020) of the database found in data.mendeley.com.
- Recipient of the "Henri Coandă" prize in the Engineering Sciences category, awarded at the Romanian Research Gala 2024 (team leader) (www.upt.ro, www.upt.ro, The Henri Coanda Diploma, The Henri Coanda Award).
- Diploma of Academic Merit of the Romanian Academy, awarded in 2023 to the Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST), whose Editor-in-Chief is Radu-Emil Precup since 2022, for the leading position in the Clarivate evaluation and first place among the journals in Romania, from the point of view of the impact factor (www.acad.ro, Diploma of Academia Merit).
- Recipient of the "Tudor Tănăsescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy for data-driven controller tuning techniques (2020) (www.acad.ro).
- Recipient of the "Grigore Moisil" Prize from the Romanian Academy for the optimization of fuzzy systems (2016) (www.acad.ro).
- Recipient of the "Grigore Moisil" Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions to fuzzy control (2005) (www.acad.ro).
- Recipient of the Spiru Haret Award from the National Grand Lodge of Romania in partnership with the Romanian Academy for education, environment and IT (2016) (www.evz.ro, adevarul.ro, redesteptarea.ro, The Spiru Haret Diploma, The Spiru Haret Award).
- Listed as one of the top 10 researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Automation (according to IIoT World as of July 2017) (The IIoT World List as of July 2017, iiot-world.com - the current list, avizier.upt.ro).
- Listed in the Research.com Ranking of Top Scientists in Electronics and Electrical Engineering as 1131st in the World Ranking and 1st in the National Ranking (Romania) (according to Research.com as of February 15, 2023).
- Recipient of the Big Award at 8th Edition of Lugoj Awards Gala (2018) (2018) (redesteptarea.ro, tentv.ro, expressdebanat.ro, lugojexpres.ro, www.youtube.com, www.youtube.com, The Lugoj Diploma, The Lugoj Award).
- Recipient of the Certificate of Commendation from IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems for the contribution to the journal by serving as an Associate Editor dealing with a high volume of papers efficiently (2022) (Certificate of Commendation).
- Recipient of the Certificate of Outstanding Reviewer from IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the journal (2017) (Certificate of Outstanding Reviewer).
- Honorary Professor of Óbuda University (previously named Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution), Budapest, Hungary (since 2007) (uni-obuda.hu).
- Bologna Professor (2017) from the National Alliance of Student Organizations in Romania (ANOSR) (The Bologna Professor Diploma, The Bologna Professor Award).
- Senior Member, IEEE (since 2007).
- Recipient of the Certificate of Appreciation from the IEEE Romania Section in grateful recognition of 10 years of service as an IEEE member (2015).
- Recipient of the Research Excellency Award in 2015 from the Politehnica University of Timisoara (UPT) for the advanced research activity in the field Controllers, Control, Tuning, placed first all over the world in the Scopus ranking and for the exquisite contribution to the international visibility of UPT (www.tion.ro, www.opiniatimisoarei.ro, debanat.ro, www.pressalert.ro, redesteptarea.ro, details on the Scopus ranking in 2015, www.upt.ro).
- Recipient of the Traian Vuia Award for Engineering Sciences at the Excellency Gala in the Banat Region, Second Edition, 2015 (timpolis.ro, www.upt.ro).
- Best Paper Award at 8th International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management ITQM 2020 & 2021 (Chengu, China) (the award).
- Best Paper Award at 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management ITQM 2019 (Granada, Spain) (the award).
- Best Paper Nomination at 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics ICINCO 2015 (Colmar, France).
- Certificate of Appreciation for the Best Paper in the Session TT07 1 Control Theory at 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2013 (Vienna, Austria).
- Best Paper Award at 16th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications WSC16 (Loughborough University, UK, 2011) (screenshot of the webpage of WSC11).
- Recipient of the Certificate of Achievement from the IEEE Romania Section for notable services and contributions towards the advancement of the engineering professions (2011).
- Two Best Paper Awards in the Intelligent Control Area at the 2008 Conference on Human System Interaction HSI 2008, Krakow (Poland).
- Recipient of the Excellency Diploma of the Faculty of Automation and Computers for special merits in the research expressed by publications (Timisoara, 2006).
- Honorary member of Hungarian Fuzzy Association (HFA, MFT, Budapest, since 2005) (Photo1, Photo2, Photo3).
- Recipient of the Diploma of the Faculty of Automation and Computers for special performance obtained in the activity carried out in the Faculty of Automation and Computers (Timisoara, 2005).
- Recipient of the Excellency Diploma of the International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics AQTR 2004 (THETA 14, Cluj-Napoca, Romania).
- The former PhD student Raul-Cristian Roman is the recipient of the Honorary Mention in the 2020 IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Romania Chapter Best PhD Thesis Competition (Honorary Mention).
