Erol Gelenbe

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Erol Gelenbe
Erol Gelenbe Imperial College 2010 graduations.jpg
Born (1945-08-22) 22 August 1945 (age 80) [1]
NationalityFrench
Turkish
Education Middle East Technical University
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Sorbonne University
Known for G-networks
Random neural network
Awards Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur
Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite
Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy
Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland
METU Parlar Science Award
Mustafa Prize
IEEE Fellow
ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Electrical engineering
Applied mathematics
Institutions University of Liège
Paris-Sud 11 University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Duke University
University of Central Florida
Imperial College
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Thesis Stochastic automata with structural restrictions  (1970)
Doctoral advisor Edward J. Smith
Jacques-Louis Lions
Doctoral students
Website www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe/
www.iitis.pl/en/person/segelenbe

Sami Erol Gelenbe (born 22 August 1945, Istanbul) is a Turkish and French computer scientist, electronic engineer and applied mathematician, renowned for pioneering work in computer system and network performance. [3] [4] His academic career spans several prestigious institutions and roles, including current positions as Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2017, [5] and visiting professorships at King's College London, the I3S Laboratory (CNRS, University of Côte d'Azur) and the Abraham de Moivre Laboratory (CNRS, Imperial College London). [6]

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A Fellow of several national academies, Gelenbe has chaired the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea since 2023. [7] His extensive professorial tenures include roles at the University of Liège, University Paris-Saclay, University Paris Descartes, NJIT, Duke University, the University of Central Florida, and Imperial College, where he served as the Dennis Gabor Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks. [8]

Biography

Erol Gelenbe is the son of Yusuf Âli Gelenbe and Maria Sacchet Gelenbe. His father was a descendant of the 18th-century Ottoman mathematician Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi and nephew of the Ottoman Sheyhulislam Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi. Erol graduated from TED Ankara Koleji and the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where he won the K.K. Clarke Research Award for his undergraduate thesis on "partial flux switching magnetic memory systems". [9] Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, he completed a master's degree and Ph.D. at the Polytechnic University on "Stochastic automata with structural restrictions" under Prof. Edward J. Smith. [10]

Career

Immediately after his PhD from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering), he joined the University of Michigan in 1970 as an assistant professor. He was granted a leave of absence from the University of Michigan in 1972 to found the Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems research group at INRIA (France) [11] and was also a visiting associate professor at Paris 13 University. He was elected to a Chair (full professorship) in Computer Science at the University of Liège (Belgium) and appointed in 1973, joining Professor Danny Ribbens with whom he remained a life-long friend. He also continued as a research director (Directeur Scientifique) at INRIA and was awarded a Doctorat d'État ès Sciences Mathématiques (November 1973) from Sorbonne University, with a thesis on "Modèlisation des systèmes informatiques", under Professor Jacques-Louis Lions. He moved to the Paris-Sud 11 University in 1979, co-founded the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique and its Ph.D. Program, before joining Paris Descartes University in 1986 as founding director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique.

Gelenbe was appointed New Jersey State Endowed Chair Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (1991-1993). He joined Duke University in 1993 and was appointed Nello L. Teer Chair Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 1998 he moved to the University of Central Florida to create the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Harris Corporation Engineering Centre. [12] [13] . In 2003 he was offered the Dennis Gabor Chair at Imperial College London [14] [15] as Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks. After Brexit, he became Professor at IITIS-PAN [16] of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2017, where he was an Academy Fellow since 2013. [17] He retired from Imperial College in 2019 to continue as Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Coordinator or Principal Investigator of EU H2020 Research and Innovation Project SerIoT (2017-2021) [18] on the security of the Internet of Things, the EU H2020 Research and Innovation Programmes SDK4ED (2018-2020) and IoTAC (2020-2023), and currently the EU Horizon Project DOSS (2023-2026). Active in several National Academies, he Chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea since 2023. [7] He served as SAPEA Advisor on Cybersecurity for the EU High Level Group (2017), Member of the Fake-News Study Group of the All-European Academies (ALLEA, 2020–2021), [19] leader of the Science Communication (Diffusion des Sciences) Study Group (2020–21) of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and Study Group leader on "Research to Innovation in Europe" (2022) [20] of the Association of European Academies of Applied Sciences and Engineering. [21]

Awards and honours

Honours

National Academy Fellowships

Fellowships in Professional Societies

Awards

Selected bibliography

References

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  4. "Pionnier de la modélisation des systèmes informatiques, ayant inspiré plusieurs prototypes industriels, E. Gelenbe est Fellow de l'ACM et l'IEEE, et lauréat de prix scientifiques en France, aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni, en Turquie et en Iran. Membre des Académies des Sciences de Hongrie, Pologne et Turquie, de l'Académie des Technologies (France) et de l'Academia Europaea, il est Docteur Honoris Causa des Universités de Liège, Istanbul-Bogazici et Rome II, et a formé plus de 78 docteurs. Il est Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur de l'Ordre national du Mérite (France), Commandeur du Mérite d'Italie et Grand Officier de l'Ordre de l'Étoile d'Italie".
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  23. J'ai l'honneur de vous informer que, par arrêté royal du 28 octobre 2022, le grade de Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Couronne a été attribué au Professeur Erol GELENBE, Membre associé de l'Académie royale des Sciences, Lettres et Beaux-Arts de Belgique (PDF) (in French)
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