François Baccelli Adviser to the Technology Transfer and Innovation Department Scientific leader of the TREC project-team INRIA Paris Rocquencourt research centre +33 1 44 32 20 52 (Secretary office : +33 1 44 32 20 45) Francois.Baccelli@inria.fr

François Baccelli has been appointed as Adviser to the Technology Transfer and Innovation Department for national actions and industrial partnerships in the fied of telecommunication, on 1^st june 2007 .
Member of the Academy of Sciences and Research Director at INRIA. He is the French specialist in stochastic network modelling.

A former student of ENST, he published his thesis in 1980 on the subject "Queues with Failures and Applications in Modelling Information Technology Systems" at Orsay, and then his doctorate in 1983, "robabilistic Models of Distributed Systems", while beginning a research career at INRIA. He works with Pierre Brémaud on queue network analysis using stationary point processes, as detailed in the books "Palm probabilities and stationary queues” and “Elements of Queuing Theory” published by Springer Verlag in 1987 and 1994. François Baccelli participated with Guy Cohen, Jean-Pierre Quadrat and Geert Jan Olsder in developing max-plus algebra in the book, Synchronization and Linearity, published by Wiley in 1992.
He is totally convinced that this theory can be applied to large-scale systems and supports creation of a European research community and software development in this field. He has been working for several years on developing mathematical models to control data transfer, in cooperation with Alcatel on satellite networks and then ADSL networks. This research has had a major impact in terms of opening up new fundamental directions and creating innovative technology to control communication networks. The French contributions of François Baccelli and the group that he formed in Sophia-Antipolis are among the rare European contributions that regularly appear in the best reputed conferences in the field. His publications (more than 80 articles in journals, 3 books, a dozen patents) have received broad attention in the media and he is frequently invited to the most widely renown international conferences. In a recent article, he gives a quite new and in-depth interpretation of TCP protocol dynamics, providing insight that is useful in practice, which has motivated the creation of the start-up company N2NSoft. He is currently working alongside B. Blaszczyszyn to develop a new avenue of research on radio-mobile network analysis using random geometric methods.
He taught from 1990 to 2001 in the department of applied mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique.
He holds four prizes, among which the France Telecom Prize, which was attributed to him by the Academy of Sciences in 2002.

Today, François Baccelli is the scientific head of the TREC project-team, run jointly by INRIA (Rocquencourt) and ENS-Ulm, within the Ecole Normale Supérieure, which enjoys scientific recognition at the highest world level and maintains vital privileged industrial relations with ATT Labs, Sprint, Microsoft Research, Intel, Alcatel, France Telecom and Thomson.