Professor of the Mathematics of Systems, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Tel: +44 (1) 223 37963
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Research Interests: Random processes, networks and optimization; applications to the design and control of networks, and self-regulation in large-scale systems
Biography: Frank Kelly is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the University of Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, and a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. In 2013 he was awarded a CBE for services to mathematical sciences. Frank Kelly has received several prizes for his work. In 1979 he won the Davidson Prize of the University of Cambridge. In 1989 he was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society. He was awarded the 1991 Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and in 1997 the Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society. In 2005 he received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, in 2008 the John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS, in 2009 the SIGMETRICS Achievement Award and the Gold Medal of the Association of European Operational Research Societies, in 2011 the Beale Medal of the Operational Research Society, in 2013 the INFORMS Saul Gass Expository Writing Award and in 2015 the Alexander Graham Bell Medal of the IEEE and the David Crighton Medal of the LMS and the IMA. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Heriot-Watt University, Eindhoven University of Technology and Imperial College, London.
He served as Director of the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 1993. He has served on the Scientific Board of HP’s Basic Research Institute in Mathematical Sciences, the Scientific Council of EURANDOM, the Conseil Scientifique of France Telecom, and the Council of the Royal Society. He has chaired the Advisory Board of the Royal Institution/University of Cambridge Mathematics Enrichment Project, and the Management Committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
He spent the academic year 2001-2 as a visiting professor at Stanford University. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport. He was chair of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences from 2010 to 2013, a member of the RAND Europe Council of Advisors from 2008 to 2015, and Master of Christ’s College from 2006 to 2016.
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