Frank Kelly (mathematician)

Francis Patrick " Frank" Kelly CBE ( born December 28, 1950) is a British Stochastiker.

Kelly in 1976 received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge with Peter Whittle (The Equilibrium Behaviour of Stochastic Models of Interaction and Flow ). In 1976 he became a Fellow of Christ's College, where he was tutor. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the systems in Cambridge. In 2006 he became Master of Christ's College.

2001/ 02 he was a visiting professor at Stanford University.

It deals with stochastic processes, optimization, business mathematics and large networks in communication and transportation, among other Dynamic routing and resource allocation in communication networks such as the Internet. In the 1980s he developed with colleagues from Cambridge and the research laboratories of British Telecom, the UK implemented in digital telephone networks, dynamic routing system. 2003 to 2006 he was a senior scientific advisor to the UK Department of Transport.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. He is one of the Trustees of RAND Europe.

In 1997 he was awarded the Naylor Prize, the 1991 Frederick W. Lanchester - Prize and the 2008 John von Neumann Theory Prize. In 1979 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize and 1989, the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society. He became an honorary doctorate from Heriot -Watt University in 2001. In 2012, he became a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering.