Erol Gelenbe

Erol Gelenbe
Erol Gelenbe
Born	22 August 1945; Istanbul
Education	TED Ankara College
Alma mater	Middle East Technical University (B.Sc.); New York University Tandon School of Engineering (M.Sc., Ph.D.); Sorbonne University (Ph.D.)
Known for	G-networks; Random neural network
Awards	Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur; Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite; Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic; Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy; Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium; Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland; METU Parlar Science Award; Mustafa Prize; IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science; Electrical engineering; Applied mathematics
Institutions	University of Liège; Paris-Sud 11 University; New Jersey Institute of Technology; Duke University; University of Central Florida; Imperial College; Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Thesis	Stochastic automata with structural restrictions (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Edward J. Smith; Jacques-Louis Lions
Doctoral students	Jacques Lenfant; Andrzej Duda; François Baccelli; Brigitte Plateau; Guy Pujolle; Catherine Rosenberg; Khaled Hussain;
Website	www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe/; www.iitis.pl/en/person/segelenbe

Sami Erol Gelenbe (born 22 August 1945, Istanbul) is a Turkish and French computer scientist, electronic engineer and applied mathematician, known for pioneering work in computer system and network performance. His academic career spans several prestigious institutions and roles, including currently as Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2017, and visitor positions at King's College London, the I3S Laboratory (CNRS, University of Côte d'Azur) and the Abraham de Moivre Laboratory (CNRS, Imperial College London).

A Fellow of several national academies, Gelenbe chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea since 2023. Previous professorial tenures include the University of Liège (1974–79), University Paris-Saclay (1979–1986), University Paris Descartes (1986–1993), NJIT (1991–93), Duke University (1993–1998), the University of Central Florida (1998–2003), and Imperial College (2003–2020), where he served as the Dennis Gabor Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks.