László Keviczky

Introduction

László Keviczky graduated with a Higher Education Honors Degree (Red Degree) from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1968.

Positions held

• research professor, MTA SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control) from 1999
• Vice-President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), 1999-2005
• Secretary General, HAS 1993-1999
• Director, MTA SZTAKI, 1986-1993
• Head of the Process Control Department, MTA SZTAKI, 1981-1985
• Research Fellow 1968-1981, Honorary Professor 1981-1993, Full Professor 1994-2015, Professor Emeritus from 2015, Dept of Automation and Applied Informatics, BUTE
• Professor, Dept. of Informatics 2002-2015; Professor Emeritus from 2015, Head of the Multidisciplinary Doctor School of the Technical Sciences Faculty 2002-2015, Head of the Faculty of Informatics 2002-2011, Széchenyi István University, Győr

Studies and degrees

• Doctor degree of TUB, System Identification, 1970
• Candidate of the Technical Sciences HAS, Design of Regression Experiments, 1974
• Doctor of Technical Sciences HAS, Adaptive Control, 1980
• Corresponding Member of HAS, 1985
• Member of the Hungarian Engineering Academy, 1991
• Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 1991
• Full Member of HAS, 1993
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1993
• Foreign member, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005

Languages

English and Russian.

Research fields

• system identification and parameter estimation
• robust and adaptive optimal control systems of industrial processes
• simulation and modeling
• nonlinear, intelligent and expert control systems 

Patents

• Procedure for optimal control of closed-loop grinding processes, 172457/1978
• Block-scheme for the self-adaptive control of the raw material blending, 175835/1980

Scholarships and foreign invitations

• UNO-UNESCO scholarship, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, 4 months, 1979
• Visiting Professor, Head of NSF project, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1979-80
• Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3 months, 1986

Awards

• Medal of Merit of Higher Education, 1968
• Frigyes Csáki Medal, 1989
• László Kalmár Medal, 1989
• Outstanding Service Award, Int. Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 1990
• MTESZ Medal, 1992
• Ottó Benedikt Medal, 1995
• Dénes Gabor Award, 2000
• Honorary Citizen of Ráckeve Town, 2000
• Széchenyi State Prize, 2004
• Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, 2010
• Polak Distuinguished Lecturer, Technion, 2015

Memberships

In international and foreign scientific bodies

• IFAC Application Committee, 1981-1990 (Vice-Chairman: 1981-1984;  Chairman: 1984-1990)
• IFAC Technical Board, 1984-1990 (Vice-Chairman: 1990-1993)
• IFAC Council Member, 1993-1999
• IFAC Application Paper Prize Committee (Chairman: 1990-1993)
• IFAC Awards Committee (Chairman: 1996-1999)
• IFAC Election Committee (Chairman: 1996-1999)
• IFAC Policy Committee (Vice-Chairman: 1999-2002; Chairman: 2002-2005)
• Associate Editor of IFAC Journal AUTOMATICA, 1987-1993
• Member of the TC on Control in IMACS
• Editorial Board of Journal on Modeling and Simulation
• Editorial Board of Journal on Control Systems Archives
• Editorial Board of Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering
• Editorial Board on Journal on Scientific Inquiry
• Senior Member of IEEE
• Grand Jury Member of European Achievements in Informatics and Innovations (EUROCASE), 1997-2008
• Executive Council Member, European Science Foundation (ESF), 1998-99
• Board of Governors, Joint Research Center JRC, EU, 1999-2011
• Grand Jury of Marie Curie Excellence Awards, 2003-2004
• Dénes Gábor International Award Committee, (chairman: 2003-2008)
• EUCA (European Control Association), (Chairman: 2009-2011)

In Hungarian Scientific Bodies and Organizations

• Hungarian Society of Measurement and Automation (MATE)  (Co-Chairman: 1992-1996, Chairman: 1996-2000, Honorary Chairman: 2000-2012.)
• Advisory Committee for the minister of Science and Technology (OMFB), 1993-1994
• Scientific Council, Bay Zoltán Research Institute, 1994-2002
• Presidium, HAS, 1993-2008
• Council of Research Institutes, HAS (Chairman: 1993-1999)
• Committee of International Relations, HAS (Co-Chairman: 1993-1999; Chairman: 2003-2005)
• Committee of Ethics HAS from 2014
• Election Committee of HAS, from 2016
• Committee of the European Science Foundation ESF (Co-Chairman: 1993-1999)
• Computer Science and Automation Committee, HAS
• Committee of Informatics, HAS
• Board of the Hungarian National Science Foundation (OTKA) (1993-2002; Vice-Chairman: 1996-1999)
• Board of the State Committee of Technological Development OMFB, 1994-2000
• Board of the Széchenyi and Kossuth State Prize Committee, 1996-2000, 2006-2008
• Sub-Committee in Technical Sciences and Engineering, Széchenyi and Kossuth State Prize Committee, 2008-2011
• National Committee of Atomic Energy, 1993-1999
• Advisory Committee for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy of the Prime Minister (TTTT), 2003-2006
• Research and Innovation Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, 2007-2010
• Monitoring Board of the National Development Plan, 2003-2005
• Hungarian Accreditation Board of Higher Education (MAB), 2005-2010
• MAB Committee on Doctoral Schools and Professorial Degrees, 2005-2010
• MAB Committee on Informatics and EE, (Chairman, 2005-2010)
• IFAC National Member Organization
• Hungarian Section of IEEE
• Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Atomic Energy Research Institute of HAS, from 2010
• Hungarian Engineering Academy from 1991
• IEEE Hungarian Section from 1991

Educational activities

Undergraduate and graduate courses at the Dept. of Automation and Applied Informatics, BUTE

• Process modeling and identification
• Hypermedia systems and applications
• Control systems

Undergraduate, graduate and PhD courses at the Dept of Informatics, Széchenyi Istvan University, Győr

• Multimedia
• Computer graphics
• Control systems
• Adaptive systems

Supervisions in Engineering Informatics at BSc and MSc levels

• Head of the Multidisciplinary Doctor School, Faculty of Technical Sciences, SZE, Győr
• Consulting and supervising graduate, postgraduate students and PhD schoolars

Main projects

• Scientific and Industrial Cooperation with Krupp-Polysius
• Hungarian Investigator of the First Joint Research Project between Hungary and NSF, USA (1977-1981), (1982-1985)
• Head of the First Project between Hungary and ARO (US Army Research Office) (1992-1994)

Publication

• 480 scientific papers
• Citations: 1108
• H-index: 15

Publication databases

Publications and citations can be found in the  Hungarian Scientific Bibliography Database.