Professor Erol Gelenbe and Professor Ataç İmamoğlu are listed among the 25 Most Influential Scientists and Technologists in the Muslim World#
2 members of Academia Europaea, Prof. Erol Gelenbe, Chair of the Informatics section and Prof. Ataç İmamoğlu, member of the Physics and Engineering Sciences section, are listed this year among the 25 Most Influential Scientists and Technologists in the Muslim World
in the annual issue of The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims.
The 25 women and men in the list come from, and/or work in, the Middle East, North Africa, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Iran, India, Pakistan etc. They include the founder of Biontech, Şahin, Uğur, and the chemistry Nobel laureate Aziz Sankar among others.
About Erol Gelenbe#
"The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims" writes about Prof. Gelenbe:
"Erol Gelenbe studied in Türkiye and the USA, and held Professorships at the University of Liege (Belgium), the University of Paris-Saclay and Paris-Descartes, and named Chairs at NJIT, Duke, the University of Central Florida in the USA and Imperial College London. A pioneer in the field of modelling and performance evaluation of computer networks, the inventor of the random neural network, the G-networks, and the Cognitive Packet Network, he is currently Professor in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Chair of the Academia Europaea Informatics Section. Also affiliated with the University of Cote d’Azur, CNRS I3S (Nice), Research Professor at Yasar University, Izmir, Türkiye, and Honorary Professor University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, he has graduated 95 PhDs and received multiple fellowships, awards and honours for his work."
Ataç İmamoğlu#
"The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims" writes about Prof. İmamoğlu:
"İmamoğlu is an award-winning physicist whose alma maters include the Middle East Technical University in Istanbul and Stanford. He was Professor at the University of California and then the University of Stuttgart before becoming the head of the research group on Quantum Photonics, at ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland. His academic interests are quantum optics, semiconductor physics, and nonlinear optics."
