Imrich Chlamtac

Imrich Chlamtac (born 1949, Zlaté Moravce, Slovakia), is the President of CREATE-NET, a European research consortium, primarily in the areas of computer and telecommunication networks. He is also the president of the European Alliance For Innovation.

Imrich Chlamtac holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (1979). He received his B.Sci. and M.Sci. degrees in mathematics with Highest Distinction from Tel Aviv University (1977).

In 1993 Chlamtac was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his work on ad hoc access protocols and in 1997 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for introducing the concept of lightpaths, the foundation for today's optical WDM networks. In 1994 he received the Fulbright Scholarship.

Chlamtac holds several honorary appointments including the Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor, University of Trento, Italy, the Sackler Professorship at Tel Aviv University, Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the "University Professorship" at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Hungary, a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary Membership of the BUTE Senate.

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