András Benczúr (1944)

From 1967 to 1978, he was a research associate at the Institute of Computer Science and Automation (SZTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and then the head of the Probability and Statistics Department. Between 1978 and 1981, he was the head of the research department at the Computer Science Research Institute (Számki).

From 1982 to 1983, he was head of the Development Department of the State Population Registration Office, then from 1983 to 1992, he was head of department and deputy director of the Computer Center. From 1993 to 1998, he was the executive chairman of the European Higher Education Fund (FEFA).

He earned a PhD in Mathematics in 1978; he became a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1989.

From 1996 to 2010, he was a university professor and head of the Department of Information Systems at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE; he received the Széchenyi Professor Scholarship between 1998 and 2002. Between 1996 and 1997, he was the head of the Department of Informatics at the Faculty of Science of ELTE, and between 1997 and 2001, he was the dean of the Faculty of Science (FFS) of ELTE.
Between 2003 and 2009, he taught as a university professor at the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics (NIK) at Óbuda University (ÓE).

University positions: Member of the Habilitation and Doctoral Committee of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of BME since 1999, member of the BME University Habilitation Committee and Doctoral Council since 2015. He was a member of the Informatics and University Habilitation Committee of SZTE for several periods, and a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Debrecen (DE). From 2011 to 2014, he was the head of the Doctoral School of Informatics of ELTE; from 2014, he is the president of the Doctoral Council of Informatics, a member of the Doctoral Council of ELTE.
Since 2014, he has been professor emeritus at ELTE.

He has been actively involved in the development and dissemination of Grid computing technologies since 2000 as the leader of the DemoGrid project and then as the representative of the Hungarian Grid Competence Center at ELTE. As the scientific chairman of the ELTE eScience RET, he has been actively organizing for the sake of scientific computing and involvement in cyberinfrastructure. Between 2013-2014, he was the representative of ELTE in the FuturIct project consortium.

His main research areas in chronological order: probability and statistics, statistical analysis of stochastic processes, computer efficiency analysis, development of computer information systems, research into the theory and applications of database systems, application of algorithmic information theory in the modeling of information systems.

His most important professional public positions: Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Informatics and Computer Science Committee; he was chairman for six terms. He was Vice Chairman of the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences between 1994 and 2000. As a member of the board of trustees of the MATFUND Foundation, which supports the publication of KÖMAL, he is also actively involved in talent development.

His awards: Gyula Farkas Memorial Award (Bolyai János Mathematical Society, BJMT, 1976); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 1979); Academic Award (MTA, 1989); Memorial Plaque for Hungarian Higher Education (ELTE, 1996); Pollák – Virág Award (HTE, 2007); Faculty of Informatics Memorial Medal (DE, 2010); Pro Universitate Gold Medal (ELTE, 2011); Lifetime Achievement Award (NJSZT, 2019).