The Second Step of The Mustafa Prize (PBUH) And Communication and Information Technology Scientists’ Pioneering Role

The second edition of Mustafa Prize (PBUH) was held in Tehran in 2017 and two scientists from Iran and Turkey were introduced and awarded in the field of communication and information technology.

700 scientists and 361 scientific institutions were invited in four fields of information and communication technology, biological and medical science and technology, science and nanotechnology, and all fields of science and technology.

Sami Erol Gelenbe from Turkey, the former professor of University of Liège and Paris-Saclay University and full professor of Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences together with Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi from Iran was one of the laureates of the second round of Mustafa Prize (PBUH).

A student of computer science, electronics and applied mathematics from the University of Turkey, Middle East Technical University and New York University, visiting professor at Imperial College London, University of Paris 13, University of Lage Belgium and a member of the Turkish Scientific Association received this award for the design of the Queue Network Analysis Package.

He also designed a new product of queue networks with customers and negative triggers known as G-networks or Gelenbe networks.

This invention shows that the performance of information and communication technology systems that integrate important control functions can be evaluated through mathematics. In addition, he proposed a new model of mutated probabilistic neural network, which is known as random neural network.

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi born in 1964 and professor of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne was another laureate of Mustafa Prize (PBUH).

He is a student of mathematics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology at the master's level and a doctorate in mathematical sciences from the University of Bonn with a doctoral thesis "Improving Coding and Complexity Theory through Algebraic Function Fields", holds a professorship in the field of Algorithms in the Faculty of Informatics and Communication Sciences, as well as a professorship in the field of algorithmic mathematics is in the Faculty of Basic Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Lausanne, Switzerland (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)).

The closing ceremony of Mustafa Prize (PBUH) was also held at Vahdat Hall, with the presence of Sourena Sattari, the former Vice President of Science and Technology, Abdelsalam al-Majali, the head of the Academy of the Islamic World Sciences, and more than 90 scientists from the Islamic world, and the laureates have received their awards.

The event was held alongside with the third round of Science and Technology Exchange Program (STEP).

STEP meetings in the fields of information and communication science and technology, biological and medical science and technology, science and nanotechnology, economy and Islamic banking was held in the universities of Tehran, Sharif, Shahid Beheshti Medical Sciences, Tehran Medical Sciences, Imam Sadiq (AS), Tarbiat Modares University and Iran University of Science and Technology.