Arne Jensen Lifetime Award
The Arne Jensen Lifetime Award has been created in memory of Arne
Jensen, Founder of the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) and
Chair of the International Advisory Council (IAC) from its inception in
1955 until 1991. The Award is presented at ITCs to an individual who has
provided exceptional contribution to traffic modeling, control and
performance, and dedication to the teletraffic community.
The International Advisory Council (IAC) of the International
Teletraffic Congress (ITC) is pleased to announce that the recipient of
the 2016 Arne Jensen Lifetime Award is Prof. Dr.-Ing. Phuoc Tran-Gia for
his huge contribution to teletraffic research and exceptional dedication
to the ITC organization and community.
Phuoc
Tran-Gia was born in Da Nang, Vietnam, in 1953. He studied Electrical
Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. After receiving the engineering diploma
in 1977, he worked at the University of Siegen as Research Assistant and finished
his PhD in 1982. Subsequently, he worked as Head of a Research Group at the
University of Stuttgart and Research Staff Member at IBM Research Division in Rüschlikon,
Zurich. Since 1985, Phuoc Tran-Gia has been giving lectures on computer networks
at the University of Würzburg. He earned
the professorial qualification at the University of Stuttgart in 1988 with the
thesis: “Discrete-Time Analysis of Performance Models in Computer and
Communication Systems”. In the same year, he was offered a professorship at the
University of Würzburg and, since then, he holds the Chair of Communication
Networks (Informatik III) at the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. In
2006, he was additionally appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury
in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since 2015, Phuoc Tran-Gia serves as Vice
President of the University of Würzburg being responsible for internationalization,
alumni, information technology, and public relations.
Phuoc
Tran-Gia is active in several national and international research
projects. He
was Member of the Networks of Excellence for the Future Internet
EuroNGI,
EuroFGI, EuroNF, and acted as Coordinator of the G-Lab project, a German
experimental
platform on Future Internet research. Furthermore, he has worked and
still
works at noticeable projects like the CELTIC-Projects 100-GET (100
Gbit/s
Carrier-Grade Ethernet Transport Technologies), SASER (Safe and Secure
European
Routing), and SENDATE (Secure Networking for a Data Center Cloud in
Europe);
the EU-funded projects SmoothIT (Simple Economic Management Approaches
of
Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies), SmartenIT
(Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic combined
with
Energy Efficiency in the Internet), and INPUT (In-Network
Programmability for
Next-Generation Personal Cloud Service Support); or COST Actions like
ACROSS (Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services).
Besides, Phuoc Tran-Gia is active in many industry projects and works as
a
consultant. He is Founder and Member of the Advisory Board of Infosim
(Germany),
specialized in IP network management products, and services and also
Co-Founder
and Board Member of Weblabcenter Inc. (Dallas, Texas), which is
specialized in crowdsourcing
technologies. Furthermore, Phuoc Tran-Gia hosted the ITC
Specialist Seminars in 2002 and 2008, and the ITC 28 in Würzburg.
His
research activities focus on performance analysis of the following major
topics: Future Internet & Smartphone Applications; QoE Modeling
&
Resource Management; Software Defined Networking & Cloud Networks;
Network Dynamics & Control;
Crowdsourcing. He has published more than 100 research papers in major
conferences and journals, and received the Fred W. Ellersick Prize in
2013,
which is given annually to the best article published in a IEEE
Communications
Society magazine in the past year.
