László Keviczky

He began his professional career at the Department of Automation of the BME, where he led the advanced control theory group. In 1981, he joined the Computer Science and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (SZTAKI), where he first led the Process Control Department. Between 1986 and 1993, he was the director of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (SZTAKI).

He was awarded an honorary professorship in 1981 and a full professorship in 1994 at the Budapest University of Technology. He was a Széchenyi Professorship Fellow between 2000 and 2003. Since 2002, he has been a professor at the Széchenyi István University (SZE) of Győr, where he first founded and headed the Department of Technical Informatics, and then the new Multidisciplinary Technical Doctoral School.

He obtained his doctorate in 1970, his candidate's degree in 1974, and his doctorate in science in 1980. In 1985, he was elected as the second youngest member as a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1993 as a full member. He has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering (MMA) since 1991. He was the Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1993 and 1999. He was the Vice President of Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1999 and 2005; he was a member and chairman of several committees. He has been an external member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering since 1991, and an honorary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2015.

His research areas include systems and control theory and their applications, system identification and parameter estimation – including robust and adaptive optimal control systems, simulation and modeling, nonlinear and intelligent controls. He has published more than 450 scientific papers with nearly a thousand citations.

He was the Hungarian leader of the first US National Science Foundation (NSF) scientific project, and then the leader of the first US ARMY Research Office Hungarian research project. In 1979, he was a UNESCO fellow at Lund University, and in 1986, he was an Eisenhower fellow in the USA.

Between 1981-1984 he was Vice-President and then President of the Applications Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and then held several positions in the world organization. Between 1987-93 he was a member of the editorial board of the IFAC Journal Automatica. He was a member of the program committees of more than 50 IFAC congresses, symposia, and workshops, of which he was the President in three cases. Between 2010-2012 he was the President of the European Control Association (EUCA), and in 2009 he was the President of the European Control Conference (ECC'2009).

Honors: Polak Distinguished Lecturer Prize (2015); Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2010); Széchenyi Prize (2004); Dénes Gábor Prize (Novofer Foundation, 2000); Ottó Benedikt Prize (SZTAKI, 1995); MTESZ Prize (Association of Technical and Natural Sciences Associations, MTESZ, 1992); IFAC Outstanding Service Award (1990); Frigyes Csáki Prize (Hungarian Electrotechnical Association, 1989); Kalmár Prize (NJSZT, 1988); Academic Award (MTA, 2020).