Short biography of Rob van der Mei
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Full Professor in Applied Mathematics VU University Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics Room R4.51 De Boelelaan 1081a 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-20-444 7628 (Thursday), E-mail: mei@few.vu.nl
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) |
Rob van der Mei received his M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and in Econometrics, both from the Free University Amsterdam. In 1995 he received his Ph.D. degree from University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, for his thesis "Polling Systems and the Power-Series Algorithm", focusing on the performance analysis of single-server multi-queue models. In 1994 he joined KPN Research as a technical staff member, where he worked on both practical and theoretical aspects of the performance of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) broadband networks. In 1996 he became a post-doctoral researcher at Rutgers' Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, and at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at Columbia University, New York City. Late 1996 he became a senior technical staff member at AT&T Labs, Department of Performance Analysis and Network Planning, Holmdel, NJ, USA, as a consultant and researcher on performance modeling and analysis of a variety of AT&T networks and services. In 1999 he moved back to his home country to rejoin KPN Research, where he was promoted to Senior Innovator at the Center of Excellence Quality of Service in 2000; by January 1, 2003, KPN Research has become part of TNO Telecom.
In 2004, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), where he is currently heading the research cluster Probability, Networks and Algorithms. At the same time he is also the leader of the research theme Societal Logistics, one of the four research themes within CWI. He also has a part-time asssignment as a full professor at the VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Division of Mathematics, as a member of the Optimization and Business Processes group, where he is responsible for the research and education in the field of communication networks, with a particular focus on performance aspects. The VU-related research and educational activities are part of the educational program Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI).
His research interests include performance and capacity planning ICT systems, logistic processes, healthcare logistics and queueing theory, with a specific focus on the applicability of the results. He has served in the Editorial Boards of Performance Evaluation and the international Journal of Electronics and Communications.
He is also the Secretary and member of the Executive Board of the Dutch Royal Mathematical Society, and a member of the Board of the section Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ITW) of the Dutch Royal Mathematical Society; ITW aims to bridge the gap between academic institutions and industry in the field of Applied Mathematics by organizing workshops, each of which is centered around a specific application area of Mathematics.
He is also a co-founder and chairman of the ICT Innovation Platform (IIP) Vital ICT Infrastructures, a national platform aimed at bringing together companies and knowlegde institutes to exchange knowlegde and experience on controlling Quality of Service of ICT infrastructures, and a co-founder of the E-Quality centre of expertise, a joint inititiative of TNO ICT, CWI and the three TU's to strengthen the relation between knowledge these institutes and the ICT industry.
Rob van der Mei / Last update April 2013