Erol

Recherche en Modélisation, Cybersécurité et Consommation d'Energie des Systèmes Informatiques

Erol was the Gabor Chair Professor at Imperial College in the ISN Group, EEE Dept. He currently participates in three H2020 research projects GHOST, KONFIDO, and SD4KED, leads as Coordinator the 5M Euro H2020 Project SerIoT on the Security of the Internet of Things, and works with a group of post-docs and PhD students. Fom 2004 to end 2016 he headed the Intelligent Systems and Networks (ISN) Group which grew to included three Professors, two Readers, two Senior Lecturers, one Lecturer, and 50 researchers working on research funded by the EU H2020, ERC, EPSRC, DSTL and Industry. He recruited four academics into the group in Information Theory, Computer Vision, Social Networks, Machine Learning and Neural Computation.

The UK's evaluation of universities held every seven years, known as REF 2014, placed the ISN group as the TOP in world leading outputs in the EEE Dept, which in turn was ranked First in the UK in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

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Heading several research projects, supervising PhD students and post-docs.

During five years, I first created the School of EECS by merging the School of Computer Science with the Department of Computer Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering. Then I strengthened all the PhD programs and secured an annual funding of $3,000,000 to support the new School as a whole.

I attracted funding of $12,000,000 for the new Harris Engineering Building and lead the team that designed the building that exists today and houses the School of EECS and other parts of the College of Engineering.

During those five years, I recruited some 30 full-time faculty members and managed an institute that expanded by roughly 60% to teach 1900 undergraduate students, some 200 PhD students, with 100 faculty members, covering three departments (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering) with three BS, MS and PhD Programs. We went through two successful accreditation programmes with ABET and for Computer Science.

We tripled the size of the PhD programme, and created a new undergraduate interdisciplinary BS program on Information Technology. Developed a community outreach program, and doubled the funded research program. As PI, I attracted over $5M in federal and industry grants.

I was elected Fellow of ACM and made an Officier de l'Ordre du Merite and the Chevalier des Palmes Academiques from France.

Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and holder of the Nello L. Teer Endowed Chair. I also held secondary professorships in Computer Science and in Experimental Psychology. During my tenure as department hed, the ECE department moved up into the top twenty five departments in the USA in the US News and World Report rankings.

I created the School and created a selective graduate degree program called the Magistere d'Informatique Appliquee d'Ile de France, jointly with several Grandes Ecoles including the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees and ENST. I attracted the funding to build the space for the school and successfully conducted the building program offering 2000 additional sq metres of laboratory space. I attracted and recruited 12 new faculty. With respect to my own research, I trained and graduated some 12 PhD students and attracted three EU grants with Siemens and other partners, and several grants from IBM and other companies.
Many papers were published in prestigious IEEE and ACM journals and other venues.

Created the new degree programme "Magistere d'Informatique Appliquee d'Ile de France" and founded the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Informatique. Founded a PhD Programme and graduated numerous PhD students who have now achieved prominence. Developed the FLEXSIM simulation paradigm for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (which is a currently used industry product). Invented G-Networks and the brain-inspired Random Neural Network model. Worked on several EU ESPRIT Projects (QMIPS, LYDIA), contributed to the second generation QNAP simulation tool, and served as a consultant to ONERA. Was elected Fellow of IEEE, and appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite.

Developed Performance Modelling research in France, at INRIA, CNRS and the Universities, and in several other European countries (Italy, Poland, Greece). Created a PhD Programme, graduated numerous PhDs who became world leaders in their field. Co-Founded the LRI research laboratory, and founded the ISEM Laboratory. Invented the SYCOMORE multi-processor packet switch for the company LMT, and the XANTHOS random-access fiber optics Local Area Network. Served as a consutlant to CNET (Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications) and taught at Ecole Polytechnique (1979-1987). Was awarded the Silver Core Award by IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing Societies).