Tibor Csendes

He began his career as a staff member at the József Attila University (JATE) and then the University of Szeged (SZTE). After 1985, he was a scientific associate at the Cybernetics Laboratory founded by László Kalmár, and from 1993, he was a lecturer at the Department of Computer Optimization. From 1994, he was an associate professor, and from 1994-97, he was deputy head of the department group. He was also head of the department at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Computer Optimization of the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College.

He has been a university professor since 2008, and was the deputy dean of the University of SZTE, the head of the Doctoral School of Informatics and the head of the Institute of Informatics. He also taught at the Doctoral Schools of the University of Pannonia (PE) and the University of Óbuda (ÓE).

He received the Széchenyi Professorship in 1998 and the Széchenyi Scholarship in 2002. He has also conducted research at several foreign universities. He received the Szentágothai János Research Scholarship in 2013.

His three and a half decades of teaching experience have been extremely extensive, from numerical mathematics to global optimization. He has been the supervisor of numerous scientific student group projects, several of which have won awards at the National Scientific Student Group Conference (OTDK).

His research interests include the development of reliable numerical methods and theoretical and computational issues in global optimization.

Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the Hungarian Operations Research Society, former president.

Awards: Kalmár Prize for Young Researchers (JATE, 1985); Gyula Farkas Memorial Prize (János Bolyai Mathematical Society, BJMT, 2005); Golden Chalk Prize (SZTE, 2005); Special Prize for Informatics Instructor of the Year (Association of Leading Informatics Professionals, VISZ, 2007); Master Teacher Gold Medal (OTDK, 2009), Moore Prize (editorial board of the scientific journal Reliable Computing, 2016), Kalmár Prize (NJSZT, 2017).