Award of the honour of Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Merite to Erol Gelenbe#
Professor Erol Gelenbe, Member of Academia Europaea and of AE’s Informatics Section Committee, was awarded the honour of Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Merite (Commander of the National Order of Merit of France) by decree of President Emanuel Macron, dated 29th May 2019, for services to higher education and research. The Order of Merit of France, is distinct from the Legion d’Honneur. Erol Gelenbe was also awarded Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2014.
Erol’s research area is the performance of computer systems and networks and his recent work has addressed issues of cyber-security (also contributing actively to the European Advisory mechanism SAPEA), energy consumption by ICT, and the dynamic control of large scale self-aware networked systems using Machine Learning algorithms and Random Neural Networks.
