Sami Erol Gelenbe (born 22 August 1945, Istanbul), a Turkish and French
computer scientist,
electronic engineer and
applied mathematician, pioneered the field of Computer System and Network Performance.[3][4] Currently Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2017- ),[5] he is also an Associate Researcher in the I3S Laboratory (CNRS, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice) and Abraham de Moivre Laboratory (CNRS, Imperial College).[6] Fellow of several National Academies, he Chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea since 2023.[7] His previous Professorial Chairs include the University of Liège (1974-1979), University Paris-Saclay (1979-1986), University Paris Descartes (1986-2005), NJIT (1991–93), ECE Chair at Duke University (1993-1998), University Chair Professor and Director of EECS, University of Central Florida (1998-2003), and Dennis Gabor Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks, Imperial College (2003-2019).[8]
Biography
Erol Gelenbe is the son of Maria Sachet Gelenbe, and of Yusuf Âli 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
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
PhD thesis degree at the
Polytechnic University on "Stochastic automata with structural restrictions" under Prof. Edward J. Smith.[10]
Career
He then joined the
University of Michigan as an assistant professor, and 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, but was appointed in 1974, joining Professor Danny Ribbens while remaining a research director at INRIA. He was awarded a
Doctorat d'État ès Sciences Mathématiques (1973) from
Sorbonne 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, but moved to the
Paris-Sud 11 University in 1979, where he co-founded the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique and its PhD 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 to the Nello L. Teer Chair Professorship, and as Chairperson of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In 1998 he moved to the
University of Central Florida, and founded the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,[11] creating the Harris Corporation Engineering Centre[12] In 2003 he was offered the
Dennis Gabor Chair at
Imperial College London[13][14] as Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks. After Brexit, he was appointed Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics (IITIS)[15] of the
Polish Academy of Sciences in 2017, where he was an Academy Fellow since 2013.[16] He retired from Imperial in 2019, and continues as Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as Coordinator or Principal Investigator of EU H2020 Research and Innovation Project SerIoT (2017-2021)[17] on the security of the Internet of Things, the EU H2020 Research and Innovation Programmes SDK4ED (2018-2020) and of IoTAC (2020-2023). Active in several National Academies, he Chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea since 2023,[7] 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),[18] 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)[19] of the Association of European Academies of Applied Sciences and Engineering.[20]
Awards and honours
Honours
Cross of Officer of the
Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Zasługi Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej), by decree of the President of Poland dated 12 March 2024.
Knight of the
Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 2003, which is France's oldest civilian honor dating to the Napoleonic period, awarded to those who have made distinguished contributions to education.
ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award, 2008, 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"[44]
E. Gelenbe "On the optimum checkpoint interval", Journal of the ACM, 26(2):259–270, April 1979.
E. Gelenbe "Random neural networks with negative and positive signals and product form solution", Neural Computation 1: 502–510, 1989, MIT Press.[51]
E. Gelenbe "Learning in the Recurrent Random Neural Network," Neural Computation, 5(1): 154–164, Jan. 1993, doi: 10.1162/neco.1993.5.1.154[52]
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,
ISBN0-7695-2114-2, 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.
doi:
10.1007/s10287-003-0008-z
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. d'Arienzo "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.,
doi:
10.1093/comjnl/bxq092, 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 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)
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
doi:
10.1109/GIOTS49054.2020.9119542
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) doi.org/10.3390/app11031169
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) link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42979-020-00404-8
K. Filus, P. Boryszko, J. Domańska, M. Siavvas and E. Gelenbe. "Efficient Feature Selection for Static Analysis Vulnerability Prediction." Sensors, 21 (4): 1133 (2021) doi.org/10.3390/s21041133
P. Fröhlich, E. Gelenbe, J. Fiołka, J. Chęciński, M. Nowak and Z. Filus. "Smart SDN Management of Fog Services to Optimize QoS and Energy". Sensors, 21(9): 3105 (2021) doi.org/10.3390/s21093105
G. S. Kuaban, E. Gelenbe, T. Czachórski, P. Czekalski, and J. K. Tangka. "Modelling of the Energy Depletion Process and Battery Depletion Attacks for Battery-Powered Internet of Things (IoT) Devices," Sensors 23 (13): 6183. doi.org/10.3390/s23136183
Erol Gelenbe. "Electricity Consumption by ICT: Facts, trends, and measurements," ACM Ubiquity, 2023, August, 1-15.
doi:
10.1145/3613207} 10.1145/3613207
Y. Ma, E. Gelenbe, K. Liu. "Impact of IoT System Imperfections and Passenger Errors on Cruise Ship Evacuation Delay," Sensors 24 (6): 1850, 2024.
doi:
10.3390/s24061850
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