Dr. Tuan Anh Trinh, Head of Group

Short bio

Tuan Anh Trinh received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He then founded and is the Head of the Network Economics Group at BME. His recent research interests include energy efficiency of large scale distributed systems, energy efficient data centre design, economics-inspired system design, and sustainability issues of the Future Internet. He is involved in the COST Action IC0804 as Co-chair of the working group "Characterization of performance-energy saving trade-off", and in the FP7 IP EARTH project which deals with energy efficiency of future wireless networks as well as other national projects in the field of energy efficient networking and smart grids. He is a co-guest editor of the Special Issue on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems in Future Generation Computer System journal and the Special Issue on Socio-Economic Aspects of Next Generation Networks in Telecommunications Systems journal. He is a member of the Program Committee of a number of international conferences, including the ACM SIGCOMM E-Energy Conference, IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Green Networking and Smart Grids. He has been involved in the Program Committee and co-organized the “Economics of Privacy” session in the Future Internet Assembly in Budapest. He has been invited as a visiting scientist at Ericsson Research Budapest (Hungary), British Telecom (UK), Viettel Corporation (Vietnam), Eurecom Institute (France), University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), among others. He is a professional member of the ACM and an affiliate of the IEEE Computer Society.

His Erdős number is 3 (Paul Erdős -> Imre Ruzsa -> Sándor Molnár -> Tuan Anh Trinh; Paul Erdős -> István Joó -> László Györfi -> Tuan Anh Trinh).

Guest Editorship

T. A. Trinh, H. Hlavacs, D. Talia, Guest Editorial, Future Generation Computer Systems journal (Elsevier), Special Issue on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems and Networking, Volume 28, Issue 5, May 2012, Pages 743–744.

B. Stiller, B. Tuffin, P. Reichl, T. A. Trinh, Guest Editorial, Telecommunication Systems journal (Springer), Special Issue on Socio-Economic Issues of Next Generation Networks, 2011.

Past PhD students

1. Dr. Gergely Biczók

Dissertation: On Pricing, Incentives and Congestion Control in Heterogeneous Networks

Defended: 2010

Reviewers:

Dr. Dirk Trossen, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Levente Buttyán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

2. Dr. László Gyarmati

Dissertation: Socio-economics of the Future Internet: Profit-aware Solutions in Networking

Defended: 2011

Reviewers:

Prof. Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Levente Buttyán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Recent publications

Teaching

Applied Optimization and Game Theory (PhD course)

Trend Analysis and Visualization (MSc course)