Erol Gelenbe

Erol Gelenbe was born in Istanbul, and graduated from Ankara College and the Middle East Technical University. His work has included the development of the field of computer and network performance engineering and his teams developed commercial software tools such as QNAP and FLEXSIM. He has invented mathematical models such as the Random Neural Network, and G-Networks which are exactly solvable queueing networks that incorporate primitives for traffic rerouting and congestion avoidance. He has also invented novel networking equipment such as the first fiber-optics random access network XANTHOS, the
packet based network switch SYCOMORE and the Cognitive Packet Network. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, a Member of the French National Academy of Engineering, and of the Science Academies of Hungary, Poland and Turkey. Erol has held Chaired Professorships in four countries (Belgium, France, the USA and the United Kingdom). He has been a full professor at the Universities of Liege (Belgium), Paris Orsay, Paris Rene-Descartes, Duke University, and the University of Central Florida, before joining Imperial as the Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair. His work has earned him the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award (2008), the Grand Prix France Telecom of the French Academy of Sciences (1996), from ACM (USA), the Institution for Engineering and Technology (UK), Oliver Lodge Medal (2010), and the Parlar Foundation Science Award (1994) in Turkey.