Patrick Thiran

Expertise Stochastic models, Random networks, Data-driven network science, Wireless networks, Network measurements, Dynamical systems Patrick Thiran is a full professor in network and systems theory at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. He holds an electrical engineering degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and he received the PhD degree from EPFL, in 1996. He became an adjunct professor in 1998, an assistant professor in 2002, an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in 2011. He was with Sprint Advanced Technology Labs in Burlingame, California, in 2000-01. His research interests are in communication and social networks, performance analysis and stochastic models. He is currently active in the analysis and design of wireless and PLC networks (scaling laws, medium access control), in network monitoring (network tomography, multi-layer networks), and data-driven network science. He also contributed to network calculus and to the theory of locally coupled neural networks and self-organizing maps. He served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems in 1997-99 and for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in 2006-10. He is currently on the editorial board of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication. He is/was on the program committee of different conferences in networking, including ACM Sigcomm, Sigmetrics, IMC, CoNext and IEEE Infocom. He was TPC chair of AMC IMC 2011 and CoNext 2012. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation and of the IEEE. He received the 1996 EPFL Doctoral Prize and the 2008 Crédit Suisse Teaching Award.Current and recent work Wireless and PLC networks: scaling laws, MAC performance. Network loss tomography. Random gossip algorithms. Source location of epidemics. Mobility data mining and population sampling. Patrick Thiran Teaching & PhD PhD Students Daichi Kuroda, Raphaël Andrew Fua, Sepehr Elahi, Mohammadsaeed Masiha, Paula Mürmann Past EPFL PhD Students Carmen Mas, Olivier Dousse, Mathilde Durvy, Xuan Hung Nguyen, Maciej Kurant, Adel Aziz, Denisa Gabriela Ghita, Farid Movahedi Naini, Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Christina Vlachou, Brunella Marta Spinelli, Sébastien Henri, Farnood Salehi, Victor Kristof, Gergely Odor, Mahsa Forouzesh Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Frédéric Worm, Florence Bénézit, Mohamed Kafsi, Vincent Etter, Runwei Zhang, William Trouleau, Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaee Courses Networks out of control COM-512 The goal of this class is to acquire mathematical tools and engineering insight about networks whose structure is random, as well as learning and control techniques applicable to such network data. Stochastic models in communication COM-300 The goal of this class is to acquire a working knowledge of the tools of random processes used by an engineer in communication, data science and computer science. Awards EPFL Doctoral Prize 0