- Frank Kelly (professor)
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name = Frank Kelly
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caption = Professor Frank Kelly at theEPFL ,15 October 2007
birth_date = bda|1950|12|28
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residence =Cambridge
citizenship = British
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field = OptimisationQueueing theory
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alma_mater =Durham University (B.Sc. )University of Cambridge (Ph.D. )
doctoral_advisor =Peter Whittle
doctoral_students = Alan Bain (2004)
Nigel Bean (1993)
Richard Gibbens (1988)
Stephen Hanly (1994)
Christopher Laws (1991)
Graham Louth (1991)
Iain MacPhee (1990)
Aman Maulloo (2000)
Philip Pollett (1983)
Gaurav Raina (2006)
David Tan (1999)
Stephen Turner (1997)
Darren Upton (2003)
Thomas Voice (2006)
Damon Wischik (2000)
Ilze Ziedins (1987)
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prizes =Davidson Prize (1979)
Guy Medal in Silver (1989)Fellow of the Royal Society (1989)Lanchester Prize (1992)Naylor Prize (1997)
HonoraryD.Sc. fromHeriot-Watt University (2001)IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2005)Companionship of OR by theOperational Research Society (2006)
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footnotes =Francis Patrick "Frank" Kelly, FRS (born
28 December 1950 ) isprofessor of the Mathematics of Systems in the Statistical Laboratory of theUniversity of Cambridge , and Master ofChrist's College, Cambridge .His
research interests are inrandom process es, networks and optimisation, especially in very large-scale systems such as telecommunication or transportation networks. In the 1980s, he worked with colleagues in Cambridge and at British Telecom's Research Labs on Dynamic Alternative Routing in telephone networks, which was implemented in BT's main digital telephone network. He has also worked on the economic theory of pricing to congestion control and fair resource allocation in theinternet . From 2003 to 2006 he served asChief Scientific Advisor to theUnited Kingdom Department for Transport .He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. In December 2006 he was elected 37th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.Awards
* 1979:
Davidson Prize of theUniversity of Cambridge
* 1989: Guy Medal in Silver of theRoyal Statistical Society
* 1989:Fellow of the Royal Society
* 1992:Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
* 1997:Naylor Prize of theLondon Mathematical Society
* 2001: HonoraryD.Sc. fromHeriot-Watt University
* 2005:IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
* 2006:Companionship of OR by theOperational Research Society References
* [http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-life/people/master/ Biography from Christ's College] , retrieved
18 December 2006
* [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/ Frank Kelly's homepage] , retrieved8 December 2006
* [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/CV/biog.html Biography from Frank Kelly's website] , retrieved8 December 2006
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