Patrick Thiran is an associate professor in network and systems theory at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences of EPFL. He received the electrical engineering degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1989, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, in 1990, and the PhD degree from EPFL, in 1996. He became an adjunct professor in 1998, an assistant professor in 2002 and an associate professor in 2006. He was with Sprint Advanced Technology Labs in Burlingame, California, in 2000-01.
His research interests are in communication networks, performance analysis, dynamical systems and stochastic models. He is currently active in the analysis and design of wireless multi-hop networks (scaling laws, medium access control, self-organization) and in network monitoring (network tomography, overlay and multi-layer networks). He also contributed to network calculus and to the theory of locally coupled neural networks and self-organizing maps.
He served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems in 1997-99, and he is currently an associate editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He is/was on the program committee of different conferences in networking, including Sigcomm and Infocom. He is a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and he received the 1996 EPFL Doctoral Prize.