László Kóczy T.

Since 1976, he has been a lecturer at the Institute of Communication Electronics, BME, and then its legal successor, the Department of Telecommunications and Telematics, and since 1998, he has been a professor. Since 2002, he has been a professor at Széchenyi István University (SZE) in Győr. Between 1992 and 2001, he was the deputy director of the BME International Education Center. Between 2002 and 2011, he was the dean and institute director of the Faculty of Engineering, SZE; since 2012, he has been the president of the University Doctoral Council and a member of the National Doctoral Council.

He was a visiting professor in Korea, Japan (as head of department), Australia (at 4 universities), Austria, Italy, and Indonesia (“World Class Professor”).

He obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technology in 1977, and his Candidate of Technical Sciences degree in 1989. In 1998, he habilitated and became a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and since 2017, he has been an external member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Between 2003 and 2008, he was the President of the Hungarian Higher Education Rectors' College (MFRFK), then the Co-President and later the President of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference (MRK) Scientific Committee on Informatics. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Technical Committee of the Hungarian Higher Education Accreditation Committee (MAB), its President since 2012, and a member of the MAB. Since 2018, he has been the Co-President and Executive President of the MAB University Teachers' and Doctoral College - a higher education quality assurance specialist.

NJSZT, the Hungarian Association of Telecommunications and Informatics (HTE), the Hungarian Association of Measurement and Automation (MATE), since 1975 a member and functionary of the Bolyai János Mathematical Society (BJMT). In 1990, he was the founding president of the Hungarian Fuzzy Society, then its perpetual honorary president. Between 1995-2005, he was the vice president and then president of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), since 2005 a voting council member, since 2017 a member of the Fellow Committee. Between 2005-2009, he was a member of the presidium of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS AdCom), between 2010-2012 a member of the presidium of the IEEE System Theory Council (IEEE SSC AdCom).

He is a lifelong honorary member of IFSA, ISME (International Society for Engineering Management), and RSFSSC (Russian Society for Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing).

Research areas: computational intelligence, primarily fuzzy systems, evolutionary and memetic algorithms, neural and hybrid systems, applications. Author of 740 publications

His awards include: Dénes Gábor Award (Novofer Foundation, 2002); László Kozma Memorial Medal (BME, 2004); Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2011); Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (Minister of Human Resources, 2017); Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award (IEEE CIS, 2020). He is also the recipient of several "best study awards" (IEEE, IFSA, Systems Science, etc.).