Dennis Gabor Chair, Imperial College

Erol Gelenbe is the Dennis Gabor Chair Professor at Imperial College after having occupied senior academic positions in Belgium, France and the USA. He is a graduate of METU, the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. His current research explores the interface between information technology and the physical, economical and biological systems that ICT observes, operates and manages. This work is funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board, EPSRC and the EU FP7 Programme. He is also the Editor in Chief of The Computer Journal. Erol has recently served as a consultant for MBDA, BAE Systems, Microsoft Research and General Dynamics UK Ltd. He has received scientific and technical awards in each country where he has worked, for pioneering research and applications of computer system performance evaluation and smart adaptive networks. The UK's Institution for Engineering and Technology awarded him the Oliver Lodge Medal in 2010, while ACM gave him the SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award in 2008. Other prizes include the Grand Prix France Telecom from the French Academy of Sciences in 1996, the Parlar Science Award from Turkey in 1994, and honoris causa doctorates from Belgium, Italy and Turkey. He was elected to the Science Academy of Turkey, the French National Academy of Engineering, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea.