István Maros

Between 1964 and 1968, he worked as a mathematician at the General Directorate of Road Transport of the Ministry of Transport and Postal Services (KPM). Between 1968 and 1975, he was the head of the Mathematics Department of the Institute of Industrial Economics and Plant Management (NIM IGÜSZI) of the Ministry of Heavy Industry. Between 1975 and 1985, he was the head of the Operations Research Departments of Infelor, the Computer Research Institute (Számki), and the Computer Application Company (Számalk). Between 1985 and 1990, he was the head of the Applied Mathematics Department of the Institute of Computer Science and Automation (SZTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Between 1991 and 2006, he was a professor at foreign universities: 2 years at Rutgers University (New Jersey, US – RUTCOR), 3 years at Brunel University (London), 10 years at Imperial College (London).
Between 2006 and 2012, he was a university professor at the University of Pannonia (PE), then professor emeritus.

His research areas include operations research and its applications, decision modeling, linear and nonlinear programming, computational methods of optimization, optimization software implementation technology, parallel optimization, optimization methodology to aid medical image processing. He has enriched simplex-based linear optimization with significant new results, primarily with regard to the fundamental dual simplex method. His research monograph “Computational Techniques of the Simplex Method” is a recognized work (all modern optimization software today is based on the methods described here).

He has more than 120 publications in Hungarian and foreign languages. He has presented at 56 international conferences, and was an invited speaker 25 times. He was a member of the program committee of 25 international conferences. He is a founding co-editor of the journal “Computational Management Science” published by Springer.

He had a wide range of scientific and public activities. Between 1987 and 1994 he was a member of the Mathematics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Scientific Qualification Committee (TMB). He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Operations Research Committee and the Doctoral Committee (ODT) of the Department of Mathematics. Between 2014 and 2017 he was the president of the Hungarian Operations Research Society (MOT). He represented Hungary in the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group No. 7 (TC7). He was the president of numerous international and domestic conferences and a member of professional organizations.

His awards: Gyula Farkas Memorial Prize (Bolyai János Mathematical Society, 1976); Kalmár Prize (NJSZT, 1991); Jenő Egerváry Memorial Plaque (MOT, 2011); László Tóth Fejes Prize (PE, 2018).