John Kocsis

After graduating from university, he started working as a research associate at the Automation Research Laboratory (MTA AKI), a predecessor of the Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked on sampling control systems.

He went to Moscow in 1965 to pursue his PhD, where he worked at the Institute of Control Systems (IPU) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (ASSU) under the world-renowned scientist YZ Tsipkin. He defended his dissertation at the Moscow Power Engineering University (MEI); his topic was adaptive computer control of the binary distillation process.

He also obtained a doctorate from the Budapest University of Technology (BME) in 1969. From then on, he worked at the Department of Automation (AUT) of BME – as a senior research fellow in the early 1970s, and later as a scientific advisor. Here, too, he worked on computer control systems under the leadership of Academician Frigyes Csáki.
Meanwhile, between 1974 and 1975, he worked at the IPU department led by Yemeljanov (Institute for System Analysis – ISA) - as the first Hungarian delegate.

Between 1977 and 1987, he was the first director of the BME Computer Applications Center (SZAK).

Co-author of professional books (e.g. Computerized Production Management, co-authored with Lajos Jánoki); translated several professional books from Russian and edited their Hungarian editions.

He is the scientific editor of the international journal Problems of Control and Information Theory, a member of several bodies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Scientific Qualification Committee, Broadcasting, Computing, Instrumentation and Automation Committee, Computer Engineering and Automation Committee, System Engineering Committee). He was also elected to the national presidency of the Hungarian Society of Control and Information Technology, the Automation Committee of the Technical Publishing House, and the National Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).