Prof Erol Gelenbe is a Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Visiting Professor at King's College London. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from New York University and a DSc in Mathematical Sciences from Sorbonne University. He is fellow of IEEE, ACM, IFIP, RSS, and IET, the Parlar Foundation Research Award (1994), the Grand Prix France Télécom (1996), the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award (2008), the Imperial College Rector's Research Award (2008), the IET Innovation Award (2010), and the Mustafa prize (2017). He is elected Fellow of Academia Europaea, French National Academy of Technologies, and Science Academy of Turkey. He is Foreign Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium, Indian National Science Academy, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Hon. Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic World. He has Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Rome II (Italy 1996), Bogaziçi  (Turkey 2004), and Liège (Belgium 2006). He led the EU projects NEMESYS and SerIoT and was Co-PI of EPSRC Aladdin, EU PANACEA, GHOST, KONFIDO, IoTAC, and the EU Projects DOSS and SAILING. He has published 222 papers in leading journals and Chairs the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea. His teaching includes Machine Learning and System Performance. His research includes Computer Systems, Networks, Queueing Theory, and AI and he has graduated some 95 PhDs.