Professor Imre J. Rudas
Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Imre J. Rudas graduated in Budapest in 1971 in Mechanical Engineering, received the Master Degree in Mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, the Ph.D. in Robotics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987, while the Doctor of Science degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He is Rudolf Kalman Distinguished Professor, Rector Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Óbuda University. He received many awards, among others the Denes Gábor award in 2006, John von Neumann Award in 2006, Hungarian Order of Merit in 2009 and Pro Óbuda award in 2014. He received Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia, from “Polytechnica” University of Timisoara, Romania, from Óbuda University, and from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He was awarded by the Honorary Professor title in 2013 and Ambassador Title by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and the Junior Past President of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a Fellow of International Fuzzy systems Association. His present areas of research activities are Computational Cybernetics, Cyber Physical Control, Robotics, Systems of Systems. He has edited and/or published 22 three books, published more than 850 papers in international scientific journal, conference proceedings and book chapters, and received more than 7000 citations.