Benedek Nagy

He earned several degrees from Kossuth Lajos University of Science (KLTE) and the University of Debrecen (DE). During his studies, he spent a few months as a scholarship holder in Umeå and Košice, Sweden, and taught as a departmental assistant at the Debrecen University of Agricultural Sciences (DATE) in the 1997-98 academic year. From 2001 to 2016, he taught continuously at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of DE, and then at the Faculty of Informatics (IK).
In 2002, he spent a semester as a visiting scholar at Indiana University in the USA, where he mainly researched on logic. From 2003, he was a researcher at the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at the Rovira-i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, for a few years. In the meantime, he defended his PhD dissertation on digital geometry at the DE in 2004. He spent several months as a postdoctoral researcher in Bremen and Uppsala. He habilitated in 2007 and has been an associate professor since 2009.

Between 2010 and 2012, he also held the position of Deputy Dean of the DE IK. He participated in several bilateral research projects, as a member (e.g. Kyoto, Japan) and as a leader (Kassel, Germany). He also participated in several Social Renewal Operative Program (TÁMOP) and Economic Development Operative Program (GOP) applications as a professional leader, researcher, and curriculum developer.

His research interests include computer science and discrete mathematics, including digital geometry and its applications (e.g. image processing, non-traditional lattices), formal languages and automata, various computational paradigms (e.g. DNA computers), and combinatorics. He is the author of the first Hungarian book on DNA computers.

PC member and reviewer at several international conferences and professional journals (e.g. IWCIA, ICPR, ISPA, CiE 2014, DGCI 2016, MCU 2015 co-chair, NCMA 2016 co-chair). Member of the operating committee of the Machines, Computations, and Universality (MCU) international conference series.

He has published approximately 200 scientific publications and given approximately 100 professional lectures. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Department of Mathematics at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus. He is a member of international scientific organizations such as ACM, CiE, IAPR and IEEE.

Awards: László Patai Foundation Prize (János Bolyai Mathematical Society, BJMT, 2004); János Kemény Prize (NJSZT, 2006).