Patrick ThiranPatrick 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.
Kristin Becker van Slooten------------------------------------- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Since 2017: - Member of ETH Board (delegate of School Assemblies of ETH Zurich and EPFL) - Project leader, Equal Opportunities Office, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 2006-2016: Advisor to the President and the General Secretary, EPFL 2004-2006: Member of ETH Board (delegate of School Assemblies of ETH Zurich and EPFL) 2006: Senior Scientist & Lecturer, Head of Research Group in Ecotoxicology EPFL, Ecological Engineering Laboratory, directed by Prof. Andrew Barry 2002-2005: Researcher & Lecturer, Head of Research Group in Experimental Ecotoxicology EPFL, Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, directed by Prof. J. Tarradellas 8/2001: Invited Professor University of Metz, France, Research unit "Ecotoxicité, Biodiversité, Santé environnementale" 1995-2002: Researcher EPFL, Institute of Environmental Technology (IGE), Research Group in Ecotoxicology, directed by Prof. J. Tarradellas -> Publication of 19 ISI papers and 56 proceedings -> Supervision of 4 PhD students, 23 master and 12 postgraduate students ------------------------------------- EDUCATION 1990-94: PhD Thesis, Institute for Environmental Technology, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1992: Advanced Ecotoxicology Course, European Environmental Research Organisation, Texel, Netherlands (scholarship) 1988-89: Advanced Master in Environmental Sciences, EPFL 1982-88: Diploma in Biology, University of Geneva (thesis realised at the Federal Research Institute Liebefeld, Bern) 1977-81: International Baccalaureate, International School of Geneva 1968-77: Undergraduate studies in Hanover, Germany ------------------------------------- MEMBER OF COMMISSONS AND ORGANISATIONS - Foundation Council "La Science appelle les jeunes" (since 2018); - Foundation Council "Les Bois Chamblard" (since 2018); - ETH Board (2004-2006 and since 2017); - Direction Board of Ecotox Center Eawag/EPFL (2010); - Scientific Commission for Chronic Risks, INERIS, France (2003-2006); - Foundation Council, Institut Universitaire Romand de Santé au Travail, Lausanne (2003-2006); - Steering group for Antifouling Emission Scenarios, OECD, Paris (2003); - Organising Committee of the "Certificat d'études complémentaires en toxicologie", University of Lausanne (2000-2005); - Directing Committee of COETOX ecotoxicology courses, EAWAG, CEMAGREF Lyon & EPFL (1999-2006); - Commission of Environmental Toxicology, Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape, Berne (1997-2006); - Working Group on Endocrine Disruption, Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape, Berne (1996-2003); - School Assembly, EPFL (2000-2003); - Teaching Commission of the section SIE, EPFL (2002-2004); - Research Commission of the faculty ENAC, EPFL (1997-2006). - Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, SETAC (1997-2006); - Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, SECOTOX (1996-2006); - Lemanic Network of Toxicology (2000-2006). ------------------------------------- LANGUAGES Bilingual German - French English: complete fluency Spanish: basic
