Frank Kelly (mathematician)

For other people with the same name, see Francis Kelly.
Frank Kelly

Kelly at the EPFL, 15 October 2007
Born (1950-12-28) December 28, 1950
Residence Cambridge
Citizenship British
Fields Optimisation
Queueing theory
Network theory
Alma mater Durham University (B.Sc.)
University of Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Thesis The Equilibrium Behaviour of Stochastic Models of Interaction and Flow[1] (1976)
Doctoral advisor Peter Whittle
Known for Quasireversibility
Dynamic Alternative Routing
Congestion control
Loss networks
Notable awards Davidson Prize (1979)
Guy Medal in Silver (1989)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1989)
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1991)
John von Neumann Theory Prize (2008)

Francis Patrick "Frank" Kelly, CBE, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems at the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He served as Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2006 to 2016.

Kelly's research interests are in random processes, 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 the internet. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Chief Scientific Advisor to the United Kingdom Department for Transport.

Kelly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. In December 2006 he was elected 37th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to mathematical science.[2]

Awards

Works

References

External links

Academic offices
Preceded by
Malcolm Bowie
Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
2006 - 2016
Succeeded by
Jane Stapleton
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.