Chapter 2: Erol Gelenbe: Computer System and Network Performance Analysis

Erol Gelenbe, Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair of the Electrical at Imperial College London http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe, is an alumnus of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He received a PhD from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn Poly) and the Docteurés Sciences degree from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). Professor Gelenbe, one of the founders of the field of computer system and network performance analysis, is well known for his work on Random Neural Networks (RNNs) and G-networks. He created the team that built the Queuing Network Analysis Package (QNAP) and pioneered an object oriented flexible manufacturing simulation system known as Flexible Manufacturing System Simulator (FLXESIM ), and both became successful commercial products. Two of his four books were published in English, French, Korean and Japanese. Elected to the Hungarian, Polish and Turkish Academies of Science, the French National Academy of Engineering (Académie des Technologies) and the Academia Europaea, he is a Fellow of IEEE (1986), Fellow ACM (2001), and has received “honoris causa” doctorates from the Universities of Liége, Boǵaziçi (Istanbul) and Rome II. He has graduated more than 65 PhDs including many women computer scientists and engineers, and was awarded the Parlar Foundation Science Award (1994), the Grand-Prix France Telecom (1996) of the French Science Academy, the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award (2008), the UK IET Oliver Lodge Medal (2010) and the “In Memoriam Dennis Gabor Award” of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2013). He has been decorated with the honours of Grande Ufficiale in the Order of the Start of Italy, of Commander (Commedatore) in the Order of Merit of Italy, of Officer in the Order of Merit of France, and of Chevalier des Palmes Académiques by France…