| Prof. Lorne Mason | |
Lorne Mason is a Visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a Professor Honouraire at INRS-Telecommunications (a research institute affiliated with the Université du Québec). His current research interests focus on modeling, control and management of next generation networks.
Dr. Mason obtained the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1963 and 1972, respectively. He was with Bristol Aerojet in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from 1963 to 1965 involved in the design of the Black Brant rockets. He joined the British Columbia Telephone Co. as a traffic engineer in 1966 and again in 1972 as a consultant for planning digital networks. In 1973 he served as a consultant to Yale University, where he, in collaboration with Professor K.S. Narendra, pioneered the use of learning automata for adaptive routing in telecommunication networks. Between 1974 and 1977, he was with Bell-Northern Research where he developed planning tools and methods for digital network evolution and state-dependent routing. Since 1977 he has been with INRS-Telecommunications where he successively held the titles of Invited, Associate, Full professor and most recently Professeur Honouraire. During this period he conducted research and taught post-graduate students in telecommunications. He is Professeur Associée at ENST (Telecom Paris) and was a Visiting Professor in the College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from August 2000 to August 2002. His primary research interests are the application of control theory and operations research methods to telecommunication network design, control, and management. He has held numerous industrial research contracts and strategic grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, in the area of broadband network design and analysis and has over 60 publications on the subject in leading conferences and journals. Professor Mason was a participant in the Network of Centers of Excellence program sponsored by the Canadian government, where he was project leader in the area of broadband network control. He was co-recipient of the 1993 STENTOR Award for collaborative research in telecommunications for his contributions to state-dependent routing. He organized and chaired the joint IFIP/IEEE conference, Broadband Communications '96, and was editor of the proceedings published in book form by Chapman & Hall. He was technical co-chairman for the IEEE ATM'98 workshop, and technical program committee member for several international conferences in the broadband area. He is a CIPS (Canadian Institute for Information Processing) member and Canadian representative to IFIP TC6 committee (Telecommunications Committee of the International Federation for Information Processing), and a senior member of IEEE.
SEMINAR ON CONTROL, NETWORKS AND GAME THEORY, Winter 2003, Summer 2003
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