Frank Kelly (professor)

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Frank Kelly
Professor Frank Kelly at the EPFL, 15 October 2007
Professor Frank Kelly at the EPFL, 15 October 2007
Born 28 December 1950
Residence Cambridge
Citizenship British
Fields optimisation
Notable awards Davidson Prize (1979)

Guy Medal in Silver (1989)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1989)
Lanchester Prize (1992)
Naylor Prize (1997)
Honorary D.Sc. from Heriot-Watt University (2001)
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2005)

Companionship of OR by the Operational Research Society (2006)

Professor Frank Kelly, FRS (born 28 December 1950) is professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

His 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.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. In December 2006 he was elected 37th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge in succession to Malcolm Bowie.

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