Professor Sayed has been selected as Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Members are chosen for their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The selection of fellows has been an AAAS tradition since 1874. Professor Sayed was honored for “distinguished contributions to adaptation, learning, and statistical signal processing. The author of more than 400 scholarly publications and five books, Sayed focuses on research in several areas, including adaptation and learning, network science, biologically inspired designs and information-processing theories.