2005 Business Network Fellow

Dr. Fabrice Saffre, BT

The Santa Fe Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Fabrice Saffre, Principal Researcher, BT's Pervasive ICT Research Centre, has been selected as the recipient of the 2005-2006 SFI Business Network Fellowship.

Fabrice Saffre is also a member of the Institute of Physics and a member of the British Computer Society. He holds a BA and MA in Philosophy of Science and a post-graduate degree in Computer Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), a post-graduate degree in Neuroscience from the Université de Nancy I (France), and a Science Ph.D. (Theoretical Biology) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His primary areas of expertise are the study of emergent collective phenomena and the modeling and analysis of complex systems, especially using numerical techniques (Monte Carlo simulations and cellular automata).

His work in BT involves devising and evaluating nature-inspired solutions to a variety of problems encountered in distributed computing. These include routing, adaptive network security, robustness assessment, and decentralized resource management (e.g. in P2P communities). He has authored many publications in the biology of behavior and complex adaptive systems (natural and artificial) in a variety of international journals and conferences. Since he joined the BT in 2000, his work has generated over 10 patent applications.

He is involved in several on-going academic collaborations with British and other European universities. He is an industrial collaborator on the EPSRC-funded research project on random graphs and amorphous computing and a work-package leader in the EC-funded CASCADAS integrated project.

Contact Information

Dr. Fabrice Saffre
Adastral Park, Orion 1st floor pp 12
Martlesham Heat, IP5 3RE
+44 (0)1473 605 451,
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