István Borgulya

After his university studies, he was a scholarship intern at the Department of Mathematical Logic and Computer Science of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the József Attla University of Szeged (JATE TTK). In 1972, he applied to the University of Pécs (PTE) and was one of the founders of the computer science education at the Faculty of Economics. He worked at the Department of Economic Informatics and retired from the faculty in 2011.

In 1975, he earned his doctorate in computer science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with a thesis entitled "An ALGOL 60 compiler program". In the 1980s, he conducted research on the economic and legal applications of computer science. Between 1989 and 2000, he studied the application of artificial intelligence methods in the fields of economics and law on several occasions, mainly at German universities, with a 1-3 month scholarship. As a result, from 1992 onwards, the application of artificial intelligence methods was the focus of his research. In 1995, he defended his PhD thesis on legal informatics at the University of Pécs. After that, his interest turned to neural networks, fuzzy systems, and then evolutionary algorithms. He developed several new algorithms, which he reported on in international journals and conferences.
From 1996 and 2002, he was the head of the Department of Economic Informatics for three years each. In 2002, he habilitated at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs. Between 2002 and 2005, he received the István Széchenyi scholarship. In 2004, as an expert responsible lecturer, he developed the application for the "Economic Informatics" BSc program, which was accredited by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

He participated in several OTKA (National Scientific Research Fund) research projects; and wrote professional books: "Expert Systems, Techniques and Applications" (1995); "Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems" (1998); "Evolutionary Algorithms" (2004); "Optimization with Evolutionary Algorithms" (2012); "Optimization with Evolutionary Computation" (2014). In the previous period, he prepared numerous university computer science teaching materials and notes, including, with co-author Péter Dobay, "Computer Science Example Library" (1987).

Between 1996 and 2000, he was the secretary of the "Physics and Mathematics Committee" of the Pécs Academy Committee; from 1996, he was the chairman of the "Informatics Working Committee". He is a member of the Hungarian Operations Research Society, the Legal Informatics Society and the National Association of Legal Informatics.
Upon his retirement, he received an award for his training as an economist and the title of university private tutor (2011).