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Erol Gelenbe Sami Erol Gelenbe ( born 22 August 1945 ) is a Turkish born French computer scientist , electronic engineer and applied mathematician who is Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( 2017- ) , Honorary Professor University of Electronic Science and Technology of China , Consultant to Huaweis Ireland Research Centre and affiliated with the I3S CNRS Laboratory of the University of Cote dAzur ( Nice ) . Previously he was a Chaired professor at University of Liege ( 1974-1979 ) , University Paris-Sud ( 1979-1986 ) , University Paris Descartes ( 1986-2005 ) , Duke University ( 1993-1998 ) , the University of Central Florida ( 1998-2003 ) and Dennis Gabor Professor at Imperial College ( 2003-2019 ) . 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 . His awards include the Grand Prix France Telecom ( 1996 ) of the French Aademy of Sciences , ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award , the Oliver Lodge Medal of the UKs Institution of Engineering and Technology ( 2010 ) , the In Memoriam Dennis Gabor Award ( 2013 ) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , and the Mustafa Prize ( 2017 ) . Biography . Erol Gelenbe is a Fellow of the IEEE , ACM , the Royal Statistical Society , IFIP and IET ( London ) . The Mathematics Genealogy Project indicates that he graduated 95 PhDs . He was awarded Honoris Causa Doctorates by the University of Rome II , Bogazici University ( Istanbul ) , and the University of Liege , Belgium . He was elected a Fellow of the Academie des Technologies ( France ) , the Royal Academy of Sciences , Arts and Letters of Belgium , the Science Academy of Turkey , and the Science Academies of Hungary and Poland . Born in Istanbul in 1945 , to Yusuf Ali Gelenbe , a descendant of the 18th-century Ottoman mathematician Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi , and Maria Sacchet Gelenbe , after his childhood in Istanbul and Alexandria ( Egypt ) , Erol graduated from Ankara Koleji in 1962 and the Middle East Technical University , Ankara in 1966 , where he won the K.K . Clarke Research Award for his undergraduate thesis on partial flux switching magnetic memory systems . Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship , he continued his studies at Polytechnic University , completing a Masters degree and then a PhD thesis on Stochastic automata with structural restrictions , under the supervision of Edward J . Smith . After graduation he joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor . In 1972 , on leave from Michigan , he founded the Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems research group at INRIA ( France ) , and was a visiting associate professor at the University of Paris 13 University . In 1971 he was elected to a Chair in Computer Science at the University of Liège in Belgium , where he joined Professor Danny Ribbens in 1973 , while remaining a research director at INRIA . In 1973 , he was awarded a Doctorat dÉtat ès Sciences Mathématiques from the Paris VI University with a thesis on Modèlisation des systèmes informatiques , under Jacques-Louis Lions . He remained a close friend of Professor Ribbens and of the University of Liège , and in 1979 , he moved to the Paris-Sud 11 University , where he co-founded the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique and its PhD Program , before joining Paris Descartes University in 1986 to found the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique . Gelenbe was appointed New Jersey State Endowed Chair Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology from 1991 to 1993 , and then in 1993 he was appointed to Duke University where he was the Nello L . Teer Chair Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department until 1998 when he moved to the University of Central Florida , and founded the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and created the Harris Corporation Engineering Centre In 2003 , Gelenbe was offered a Chair at Imperial College London and appointed the Dennis Gabor Professor in Computer and Communication Networks and Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks . Following the UK Brexit vote in 2016 , in 2017 he was appointed Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics ( IITIS ) of the Polish Academy of Sciences where he had been elected Fellow in 2013. , and Researcher in the Laboratoire I3S of the University of Nice . He retired from Imperial College in 2019 . Since 2019 he pursues active research as Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences , and Coordinator ( Principal Investigator ) of the EU H2020 Research and Innovation Project SerIoT ( 2017-2021 ) on the security of the Internet of Things , Co-Principal Investigator ( Co-PI ) of the EU H2020 Research and Innovation Programmes SDK4ED ( 2018-2020 ) and Co-PI of the H2020 IoTAC Research and Innovation Project ( 2020-2023 ) . His research appears in leading international journals and conferences . He is Co-Editor in Chief of Springer-Nature Computer Science . He is active in the European National Academies as Section Member for Informatics of Academia Europaea ( since 2017 ) , 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 ) , leading the Science Communication ( Diffusion des Sciences ) Study Group 2020-21 ) of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and of the Association of European Academies of Applied Sciences and Engineering ( 2021 ) . Notable contributions . Gelenbe invented the Random neural network model and its polynomial-time learning algorithm . He invented the eponymous G-network , a mathematical model of the performance of distributed systems and networks with complex node to node interactions , used to analyze dynamic resource allocation in interconnected systems . He has pioneered research concerning the performance of multiprogramming computer systems , virtual memory management , data base reliability optimisation , distributed systems and network protocols . He formed , led , and trained the team that designed the commercial QNAP Computer and Network Performance Modeling Tool . He introduced the Flexsim Object Oriented approach for the simulation in manufacturing systems leading to a widely used commercial product . He published the first work on adaptive control of computer systems to optimise time-sharing systems , and published seminal papers on the performance optimisation of computer network protocols and on diffusion approximations for network performance . He invented the product form queueing networks with negative customers and triggers known as G-networks . He introduced a new spiked stochastic neural network model known as the random neural network , developed its mathematical solution and learning algorithms , and applied it to both engineering and biological problems . His inventions include the first Voice-Packet Switch SYCOMORE for Thales , the random access fibre-optics local area network XANTHOS , a patented admission control technique for ATM networks , a neural network based anomaly detector for brain magnetic resonance scans , and the Cognitive Packet Network routing protocol to offer quality of service to users . From 1984 to 1986 he served as the Science and Technology Advisor to the French Secretary of State for Universities . He founded the ISCIS ( International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences ) series of conferences that since 1986 are held annually in Turkey , the USA and Europe to bring together Turkish computer scientists with their international counterparts . According to the Mathematics Genealogy project , Gelenbe is ranked 9th world-wide among PhD supervisors in the Mathematical Sciences , including Computer Science , having graduated some 90 PhD students . 24 of his former PhD students are women , including Prof . Catherine Rosenberg , Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Canada , and Prof . Brigitte Plateau , the former Director General of Higher Education in France . Latest research interests . Gelenbe pursues his work on Machine Learning and Neural Networks and Cybersecurity He also currently works on energy efficient computer systems and self-aware networks , and on network security and on networked auctions . His recent collaborations with biologists include Gene Regulatory Networks and Protein Sequence Alignment . Honours . - Knight of the Légion dHonneur ( France ) , 2014 - Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of Italy , or Grande Ufficiale dellOrdine della Stella dItalia , 2007 - Commander of Merit of Italy ( Commendatore in the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana ) , 2005 - Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques , France , 2003 - Commander of the Ordre National du Mérite ( National Order of Merit ) , France , 2019 ( awarded Knighthood in 1993 ) Fellowships . - Foreign Fellow of the Polish Academy of Sciences , 2013 - Honorary Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , 2010 - Fellow of the Science Academy , Turkey , 2012 - Fellow of the French Academy of Technologies or Académie des technologies , 2008 - Foreign Fellow of the Académie Royale de Belgique , 2015 - IFIP Fellow - Member of Academia Europaea , 2005 - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ) , New York City , 2002 - Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) , New York City , 1986 Awards . - IFIP Fellow Awarded by the General Assembly of the International Federation of Information Processing , 2019 - Mustafa Prize ( 2017 ) - In Memoriam Dennis Gabor Award , Hungarian Academy of Sciences , 2013 - Institution of Engineering and Technology Oliver Lodge Medal , 2010 - ACM SIGMETRICS Award describes him 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 - Docteur en Sciences Honoris Causa , University of Liège , Belgium - Dottore Honoris Causa , University of Rome Tor Vergata , Italy , 1996 - Doctor Honoris Causa from Boğaziçi University , Istanbul , and from Université de Liège - France Telecom Prize , one of the Grands Prix of the French Academy of Sciences , 1996 - Parlar Foundation Science Award , Turkey , 1994 - International Federation for Information Processing ( IFIP ) Silver Core Award , 1980 Selected bibliography . - E . Gelenbe On languages defined by linear probabilistic automata , Information and Control , 16 ( 5 ) :487–501 , July 1970 . - E . Gelenbe A realizable model for stochastic sequential machines , IEEE Trans . Comput . 20 , 199–204 ( 1971 ) . - E . Gelenbe On approximate computer system models , Journal of the ACM 22 ( 2 ) :261–269 ( April 1975 ) . - E . Gelenbe and I . Mitrani Analysis and synthesis of computer systems , Academic Press ( June 1980 ) , 239 pp. , , . - E . Gelenbe On the optimum checkpoint interval , Journal of the ACM , 26 ( 2 ) :259–270 , April 1979 . - E . Gelenbe Product-Form queueing networks with negative and positive customers , Journal of Applied Probability , Vol . 28 ( 3 ) : 656–663 ( Sep . 1991 ) . - E . Gelenbe , Mao , Z.H. , Li , Y.D . Function approximation with spiked random networks, , IEEE Trans . on Neural Networks , 10 ( 1 ) : 3–9 , 1999 . - E . Gelenbe and G . Pujolle Introduction to Queueing Networks , John Wiley & Sons , Inc . New York City , 1987 and 2000 . - E . Gelenbe , R . Lent and Z . Xu Design and performance of a cognitive packet network , Performance Evaluation , 46 , ( 2–3 ) : 155–176 , October 2001 . - E . Gelenbe and Hussain K.F . Learning in the multiple class random neural network , IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks , 13 ( 6 ) : 1257–1267 , 2002 . - E . Gelenbe , Gellman , R . M . Lent , P . Liu and Pu Su Autonomous smart routing for network QoS , Proc . International Conference on Autonomic Computing : 232–239 , , 17–18 May 2004 . - J.-M . Fourneau and E . Gelenbe Flow equivalence and stochastic equivalence in G-networks,Computational Management Science , 1 ( 2 ) : 179–192 , 2004. , - E . Gelenbe Steady-state solution of probabilistic gene regulatory networks , Physical Review E , 76 ( 1 ) , 031903 ( 2007 ) . - E . Gelenbe A Diffusion Model for Packet Travel Time in a Random Multi-Hop Medium , ACM Trans . on Sensor Networks , 3 ( 2 ) , Article 10 , June 2007 . - E . Gelenbe Dealing with software viruses : a biological paradigm , Information Security Technical Reports 12 : 242–250 , Elsevier Science , 2007 . - E . Gelenbe , G . Sakellari and M . dArienzo Admission of QoS aware users in a smart network , ACM Trans . on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems , 3 ( 1 ) , TAAS-07-0003 , 2008 . - E . Gelenbe Network of interacting synthetic molecules in equilibrium Proc . Royal Society A 464:2219–2228 , 2008 . - E . Gelenbe and I . Mitrani Analysis and Synthesis of Computer Systems World Scientific , Imperial College Press , Singapore and London , 2009 . - E . Gelenbe Analysis of single and networked auctions , ACM Trans . on Internet Technology , 9 ( 2 ) , 2009 . - E . Gelenbe Steps toward self-aware networks , Communications ACM , 52 ( 7 ) :66–75 , July 2009 . - A . Berl , E . Gelenbe , M . Di Girolamo , G . Giuliani , H . De Meer , M . Quan Dang , and K . Pentikousis Energy-efficient cloud computing , Comp . J . 53 ( 7 ) : 1045–1051 , 2010 . - E . Gelenbe Search in unknown random environments , Phys . Rev . E 82 : 061112 , 2010 . - E . Gelenbe and C . Morfopoulou A framework for energy aware routing in packet networks , Comp . J. , , 2011 . - O . H . Abdelrahman and E . Gelenbe . Time and energy in team-based search , Phys . Rev . E , 87 ( 3 ) :032125 , March 2013 . - Y . M . Kadioglu and E . Gelenbe . Product-form solution for cascade networks with intermittent energy , IEEE Systems Journal 13 ( 1 ) : 918–927 ( 2018 ) - E . Gelenbe , P Campegiani , T Czachórski , SK Katsikas , I Komnios , et . al . Security in Computer and Information Sciences : First International ISCIS Security Workshop 2018 , Euro-CYBERSEC 2018 , London , UK , February 26–27 , 2018 , Revised Selected Papers , Lecture Notes , Vol . CCIS 821 , Springer , Berlin ( 2018 ) - E . Gelenbe and O . H . Abdelrahman . An Energy Packet Network model for mobile networks with energy harvesting , Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications , IEICE ( 2018 ) - E . Gelenbe and Y . M . Kadioglu . Energy life-time of wireless nodes with network attacks and mitigation , 2018 ICC : IEEE International Conf . on Comms . Workshops ( ICC ) , IEEEXpress , ( 2018 ) - W . Serrano and E . Gelenbe . The Random Neural Network in a neurocomputing application for Web search , Neurocomputing 280 : 123–132 ( 2018 ) - M . G . Siavvas and E . Gelenbe . Optimum checkpoints for programs with loops , Simul . Model . Pract . Theory 97 : 101951 ( 2019 ) - Y . M . Kadioglu and Gelenbe . Product-Form Solution for Cascade Networks With Intermittent Energy , IEEE Systems Journal 13 ( 1 ) : 918-927 ( 2019 ) - E . Gelenbe and Y . Zhang . Performance Optimization With Energy Packets , IEEE Systems Journal 13 ( 4 ) : 3770-3780 ( 2019 ) - J . Du , E . Gelenbe , C . Jiang , H . Zhang , Y . Ren and H . V . Poor . Peer Prediction-Based Trustworthiness Evaluation and Trustworthy Service Rating in Social Networks , IEEE Trans . Information Forensics and Security 14 ( 6 ) : 1582-1594 ( 2019 ) - E . Gelenbe , J . Domanska , P . Frohlich , M . Nowak and S . Nowak . Self-Aware Networks That Optimize Security , QoS , and Energy , Proceedings of the IEEE 108 ( 7 ) : 1150-1167 ( 2020 ) - E . Gelenbe . Introduction to the Special Issue on the French–Polish Collaboration in Mathematical Models of Computer Systems , Networks and Bioinformatics , SN Computer Science 1 ( 1 ) ( 2020 ) - P . Frohlich , E . Gelenbe and M . P . Nowak . Smart SDN Management of Fog Services , In GIOTS 2020 : Global IoT Summit 2020 , IEEE Communications Society , 1–5 June 2020 , Dublin , Ireland , 1-6 - W . Serrano , E . Gelenbe and Y . Yin . The Random Neural Network with Deep Learning Clusters in Smart Search , Neurocomputing 396 : 394-405 ( 2020 ) - E . Gelenbe and M . Siavvas . Minimizing energy and computation in long running software , Applied Science 11 : 1169 ( 2021 ) - D . Kehagias , M . Jankovic , M . Siavvas and E . Gelenbe . Investigating the Interaction between Energy Consumption , Quality of Service , Reliability , Security , and Maintainability of Computer Systems and Networks , SN Computer Science , 2 ( 1 ) : 1-6 ( 2021 ) - K . Filus , P . Boryszko , J . Domańska , M . Siavvas and E . Gelenbe . Efficient Feature Selection for Static Analysis Vulnerability Prediction . Sensors , accepted ( ISSN 1424-8220 ) ( 2021 ) External links . - Erol Gelenbes Publications as listed in the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and his List of Collaborators ( including his doctoral students ) .