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Patrick Thiran is a full professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He earned his electrical engineering degree from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Thiran completed his PhD at EPFL in 1996. He has a rich academic and professional history, serving as an adjunct professor starting in 1998, later becoming an assistant professor in 2002 and an associate professor in 2006 before achieving full professorship in 2011. His breadth of research encompasses communication networks, performance analysis, and stochastic models, focusing on wireless networks and data-driven network science. Thiran has contributed significantly to the understanding of network calculus theory and has actively participated as an associate editor and committee member for conferences such as IEEE Transactions and ACM Sigcomm. Among his accolades, he received the EPFL Doctoral Prize in 1996 and the Crédit Suisse Teaching Award in 2008. His work currently revolves around wireless PLC networks, random gossip algorithms, and data mining techniques, marking him as a leading figure in network and systems theory.
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