Gelenbe appointed to Hungarian Academy of Sciences, May 2010#
Professor Erol Gelenbe, member of the Informatics Section of the Academia Europaea has just been appointed member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
We have just been informed of Erol Gelenbe's election as foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Their elections take place every three years, and they elect one to three foreign members in each section.
In Mathematics this year they elected as foreign members Gromov (Abel Prize winner), Varadhan (large deviations, Courant Institute) and Zoltan Szabo from Princeton who is actually Hungarian.
Erol Gelenbe have been elected in the Engineering Sciences section where the two other new members are Michael Thompson (Cambridge Theoretical Physics and Applied Math, nonlinear dynamics & chaos) and Marian Kazmierkowski (Warsaw, power electronics).
For anyone, this is indeed a great honour because of the pioneering breakthroughs of Hungarians such as von Neumann, Erdos (graph theory and combinatorics), Gabor, Renyi (probability), Kalman (of the filter ... and system theory), Gabor (filter theory, holograms, Nobel laureate), Bollobas (graphs), Barabasi (statistical mechanics and random graphs), and engineers such as Simonyi (who designed the much maligned Word text processing system that we all use), Takacs (queueing theory), Belady (implementation of virtual memory that we all unknowingly use on a daily basis), and several others. Kalman, Barabasi, Bollobas, Simonyi and Belady are still members of this academy; Karl Astrom and Rudy Kalman serve on its “quality committee”.
AE and the Informatics Section congratulate Erol Gelenbe to this outstanding appointment.
Hermann Maurer, May 4, 2010, Chair of Informatics Section
Brief report on some current projects#
Prof Erol Gelenbe’s research lab at Imperial College includes the following researchers: Dr Ricardo Lent, Dr Toktam Mahmoodi, Dr Georgia Sakellari, Omer Abdelrahman, Usman Adil, Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis, Gokçe Gorbil, Haseong Kim, Timothy Leung, Christina Morfoupoulo, Stelios Timothou, Kumaara Velan. For our publications see http://san.ee.ic.ac.uk
and http://sa.ee.ic.ac.uk .
Currently Funded Research Projects Are:#
1. The EU FP7 Fit4Green Project (2010-2012), which investigates methods that will reduce very significantly the energy expenditures of Cloud Computing. Erol’s team in particular examines methods based on active adaptation and on-line control through self-awareness and measurement, to actively dispatch so as to reduce overall energy consumption without compromising Quality of Service. http://www.fit4green.eu2. The UK Technology Strategy Board’s SATURN Project (2009-2012) on Self-organising Adaptive Technology underlying Resilient Networks, is a partnership between British Telecommunications plc, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Europe, Imperial College, Warwick University, Said Business School Oxford. In this programme, Erol’s team develops methods to enhance the security of computer-communications and of the Internet in general through active self-aware observation of network state and adaptive response to threats. http://www.innovateuk.org/_assets/pdf/press-releases/press%20release%20nsip%20-%20iip%2025nov09%20final.pdf
3. The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and BAE Systems Ltd funded Aladdin Project (2006-2010) develops methods for fast and near optimal distributed decisions in critical environments such as emergency management. Erol’s team has developed fast and distributed decision methods based on the Random Neural Network, they have invented a new approach to modelling auction based decision mechanisms, and they have developed a Distributed Building Evacuation Simulator to enhance the security of built environments. http://www.aladdinproject.org
4. The EU FP7 DIESIS Project (2008-2010) has just ended and it addressed the utmost importance of critical infrastructures like electricity and telecommunication for all European society. The study of these complex infrastructure systems demands joint interdisciplinary efforts of researchers, industrial stakeholders and governmental organisations. DIESIS has proposed a European modelling and simulation e-Infrastructure based upon open standards to foster and support research of critical infrastructures with specific focus on their protection. Erol’s team in particular designed and developed an adaptive middleware to allow the distributed “at a distance” co-simulation of heterogenous interdependent infrastructures. http://www.diesis-project.eu
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