Patrick Thiran, named 2014 IEEE Fellow

Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, January 2014: Patrick Thiran, Professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to network performance analysis.
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
Patrick Thiran contributed to network calculus, a set of max-plus system theoretic tools for the deterministic analysis of queuing systems, and to the stochastic analysis of the performance and scaling laws wireless networks using tools from statistical physics.

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