Erol Gelenbe

Sami Erol Gelenbe is a Turkish and French computer scientist, electronic engineer and applied mathematician who was born in Turkey. Involved in many research projects of the European Union, he is Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2017-), Honorary Professor of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and affiliated with the I3S CNRS Laboratory of the University of Côte d'Azur (Nice), and the CNRS Abraham de Moivre Laboratory, Imperial College (London). Previously, he was Chaired professor at University of Liege (1974-1979), University Paris-Saclay (1979-1986), University Paris Descartes (1986-2005), Nello L. Teer Professor and ECE Chair at Duke University (1993-1998), University Chair Professor and Director of the School of EECS at the University of Central Florida (1998-2003) and Dennis Gabor Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks at Imperial College (2003-2019). He also served as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University (1986). Known for pioneering the field of modelling and performance evaluation of computer systems and networks throughout Europe, he invented the random neural network and the eponymous G-networks. He has served as a consultant to various companies including Thomson-CSF, IBM, BT, France Telecom, Huawei, and General Dynamics UK Ltd. His awards include the Parlar Foundation Science Award (1994), the Grand Prix France Telecom (1996) of the French Academy of Sciences, the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award, the Oliver Lodge Medal of the UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology (2010), the "In Memoriam Dennis Gabor Award" (2013) of the Novofer Foundation (Budapest), and the Mustafa Prize (2017).