Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London

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Abstract :

This talk focuses on how network software adapts to user needs, load variations and failures to 
provide reliable communications in largely unknown networks.

For more details, see ``Steps toward self-aware networks' ', in Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 7, July 2009
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1538788.1538809&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&idx=J79∂=magazine&WantType=Magazines&title=Communications%20of%20the%20ACM&CFID=43746179&CFTOKEN=17841713 

Erol Gelenbe (FACM, FIEEE, FIEE) has been characterized as the single individual who, over a 
span of 30 years, has made the greatest overall contribution to the field of Computer System and 
Network Performance Evaluation through research, doctoral training, wide ranging 
international collaboration, and professional service. He holds the “Dennis Gabor Chair” at 
Imperial College, and his papers in 2007-2008 appear in the ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, 
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Neural Computation, Performance Evaluation, Physical 
Review, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, and The Computer Journal. He has made decisive 
contributions to product form networks by inventing G-networks (Gelenbe-Networks) with 
totally new types of “negative customers, triggers, and resets”, and which are characterised by 
non-linear traffic equations. He has made seminal contributions to random access communications, 
the optimisation of reliability in database systems, the design of adaptive QoS-aware packet 
networks, diffusion models in performance analysis, and the performance of link control 
protocols.

A native of Turkey who graduated from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, he has 
authored four books written in English and French, two of which have appeared in Japanese and 
Korean translation, and over 115 journal articles in the Journal of the ACM, Physical Review, Acta 
Informatica, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Management Science, IEEE Trans. on 
Computers, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, IEEE 
Trans. on Systems Man and Cybernetics, IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM 
Trans. on Sensor Networks, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Applied Probability, and 
Theoretical Computer Science, etc.. His recent work includes path finding algorithms in noisy and 
uncertain conditions, networked auctions, the use of neural networks to control routing in computer 
networks, as well as theoretical biology and theoretical chemistry including the analysis of 
neural networks and gene regulatory networks. His research is currently funded by industry (GD, 
BAE Systems and QinetiQ), and by agencies including EPSRC, MoD and DoD, and the EU.

A founder of IFIP WG7.3 and of ACM SIGMETRICS, and of the journal Performance 
Evaluation, Erol is particularly proud of the 58 PhD students he has graduated, many of whom are 
prominent in academia and industry in France, the USA, Turkey, Greece, UK, Canada, Belgium and 
Venezuela. Appointed to a chair at the age of 27 at the University of Liège in Belgium, he founded 
performance modelling at INRIA and in French Universities. His professorial posts include the 
University of Paris-Orsay, the University of Paris-Descartes, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 
Duke University and the University of Central Florida. He is now Editor-in-Chief of The Computer 
Journal (British Computer Society), and serves on the editorial board of several journals. Erol is 
currently a member of the Science and Technology Board and of the Executive Board of 
the UK Defence Technology Centre on Data and Information Fusion. His experience includes being 
Department Head at Duke University (USA), Associate Dean at the University of Central 
Florida (USA), and chairing the Technical Advisory Board of the US Army’s Simulation and Training 
Command (1999-2003).

His honours include: Commander of Merit of the Republic of Italy, Grand Officer of the Star of Italy, 
Officer Order of Merit of France and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques. Member of the French 
National Academy of Engineering, Turkish Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea. He 
received the Science Award (1994) of the Parlar Foundation in Turkey, was the first computer 
scientist to be awarded the Grand Prix France Telecom (1996) of the French Academy of 
Sciences, and received “honoris causa” doctorates from the University of Rome II (1996), 
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul (2004), and the University of Liège, Belgium. 

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