Schipp Ferenc

Between 1962 and 1967, he was an assistant professor and assistant professor at the ELTE Analysis II Department, then an associate professor between 1971 and 1976. Between 1976 and 1983, he was a professor at the ELTE Department of Numerical and Computer Mathematics, and from 1983 to 2004, he was the head of the Department of Numerical Analysis. In the meantime (1977-1982), he was the deputy dean for education at the Faculty of Natural Sciences (TTK) of ELTE, and between 1988 and 1993, he was the head of the ELTE Informatics Department Group.

Meanwhile, from 1987 and then from 1990 to 1990, he was a visiting professor at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, USA). Between 1993 and 2006, he was an adjunct professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, and then at the University of Pennsylvania, and was the head of the department between 1994 and 2004. Between 1995 and 2014, he was an external associate at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI).

He defended his university doctoral degree in 1966, his candidate's degree in 1970, and his MTA doctoral degree in 1976. Since 2009, he has been professor emeritus at the Faculty of Informatics (IK) of ELTE. Since 2012, he has been an honorary doctor of ELTE, and since 2017, of PTE.

Under his leadership, successful and internationally recognized research was conducted in many areas of harmonic analysis and the application of mathematics. Their monograph on dyadic analysis is considered a basic work in the field. They developed new, efficient approximation methods for approximating and compressing ECG signals and successfully applied these in control theory in cooperation with the Control Theory Laboratory of SZTAKI.

He was the secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Mathematics Committee for 15 years; he was a member of the Computer Science Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Habilitation Committee of the Budapest University of Technology (BME), as well as the editorial board of several international journals.

Honors: Mathematics Prize (MTA, 1978); Natural Sciences Prize (ELTE, 1988); Academic Prize (MTA, 1991); Szent-Györgyi Albert Prize (Minister of Education, 1995); Tibor Szele Memorial Medal (Bolyai János Mathematical Society, BJMT, 2000); Pro Facultate Informatica (ELTE IK, 2007); Széchenyi Prize (2008); József Eötvös Wreath (MTA, 2016).