János Csirik

After graduating from university, he worked at the Cybernetics Laboratory (later the Kalmár László Institute of Informatics) of József Attila University (JATE), then at the Department of Computer Science. He was a research associate at JATE between 1969-1978, and a senior fellow until 1990. He received a Széchenyi professorship between 1997-2000.
Since 1991, he has been a professor at the JATE, and since 2000, at its legal successor, the University of Szeged (SZTE).
Between 1991 and 1998 - with a short interruption - he was the head of the Department of Computer Science Applications (later known as the Department of Computer Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence). Meanwhile, between 1991 and 1992, he was the youth vice-rector of JATE, and then from 1992 to 1994, he was the rector of the university.
From 1998 to 2005, he was the head of the Informatics Department of the JATE (later SZTE). Between 2005 and 2008, he also served as the dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (TTK) of the SZTE.
He has been an emeritus professor at the University of Szeged since 2016.

From 1994 to 1995, he served as Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Public Education (MKM).

His research areas include: algorithm analysis, pattern recognition, medical image processing, computer applications, and Hungarian language text processing.
He defended his doctoral dissertation in 1973, received his candidate's degree in 1977, and obtained his Doctor of Mathematical Sciences degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1990. He went on scholarship study trips abroad to Vienna (1974), Erlangen (1980-1981 and 1983); he was a guest lecturer in Bern (1987) and Rotterdam (1989-1990).

Between 1984 and 1995, he was a member of the Mathematics Committee of the Scientific Qualification Committee (TMB). Since 1995, he has been the chairman of the Informatics and Computer Science Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Mathematics Doctoral Committee.
Active member and organizing committee chairman of domestic and foreign computer science societies: American Computer Science Association (ACM); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); American Mathematical Society (AMS); European Council of Computer Science Societies. Member of the organizing committee of the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) conference since 1985. Chairman of the organizing committee of the ICALP'95 (International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming) conference.

His awards: Academic Award (MTA, 1981); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 1983); Bolyai Farkas Award (Association of Hungarian Teachers in Romania, 1999); Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2008); Széchenyi Award (2009).