László Keviczky
full member of HAS
the head of the scientific council
Address
1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17.
Room number
K 110
Email
keviczky@sztaki.hun-ren.hu
Phone
+36 1 279 6184
Introduction
László Keviczky graduated with a Higher Education Honors Degree (Red Degree) from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1968.
Positions held
- research professor, MTA SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control) from 1999
- Vice-President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), 1999-2005
- Secretary General, HAS 1993-1999
- Director, MTA SZTAKI, 1986-1993
- Head of the Process Control Department, MTA SZTAKI, 1981-1985
- Research Fellow 1968-1981, Honorary Professor 1981-1993, Full Professor 1994-2015, Professor Emeritus from 2015, Dept of Automation and Applied Informatics, BUTE
- Professor, Dept. of Informatics 2002-2015; Professor Emeritus from 2015, Head of the Multidisciplinary Doctor School of the Technical Sciences Faculty 2002-2015, Head of the Faculty of Informatics 2002-2011, Széchenyi István University, Győr
Studies and degrees
- Doctor degree of TUB, System Identification, 1970
- Candidate of the Technical Sciences HAS, Design of Regression Experiments, 1974
- Doctor of Technical Sciences HAS, Adaptive Control, 1980
- Corresponding Member of HAS, 1985
- Member of the Hungarian Engineering Academy, 1991
- Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 1991
- Full Member of HAS, 1993
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1993
- Foreign member, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005
Languages
English and Russian.
Research fields
- system identification and parameter estimation
- robust and adaptive optimal control systems of industrial processes
- simulation and modeling
- nonlinear, intelligent and expert control systems
Patents
- Procedure for optimal control of closed-loop grinding processes, 172457/1978
- Block-scheme for the self-adaptive control of the raw material blending, 175835/1980
Scholarships and foreign invitations
- UNO-UNESCO scholarship, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, 4 months, 1979
- Visiting Professor, Head of NSF project, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1979-80
- Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3 months, 1986
Awards
- Medal of Merit of Higher Education, 1968
- Frigyes Csáki Medal, 1989
- László Kalmár Medal, 1989
- Outstanding Service Award, Int. Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 1990
- MTESZ Medal, 1992
- Ottó Benedikt Medal, 1995
- Dénes Gabor Award, 2000
- Honorary Citizen of Ráckeve Town, 2000
- Széchenyi State Prize, 2004
- Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, 2010
- Polak Distuinguished Lecturer, Technion, 2015
Memberships
In international and foreign scientific bodies
- IFAC Application Committee, 1981-1990 (Vice-Chairman: 1981-1984; Chairman: 1984-1990)
- IFAC Technical Board, 1984-1990 (Vice-Chairman: 1990-1993)
- IFAC Council Member, 1993-1999
- IFAC Application Paper Prize Committee (Chairman: 1990-1993)
- IFAC Awards Committee (Chairman: 1996-1999)
- IFAC Election Committee (Chairman: 1996-1999)
- IFAC Policy Committee (Vice-Chairman: 1999-2002; Chairman: 2002-2005)
- Associate Editor of IFAC Journal AUTOMATICA, 1987-1993
- Member of the TC on Control in IMACS
- Editorial Board of Journal on Modeling and Simulation
- Editorial Board of Journal on Control Systems Archives
- Editorial Board of Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering
- Editorial Board on Journal on Scientific Inquiry
- Senior Member of IEEE
- Grand Jury Member of European Achievements in Informatics and Innovations (EUROCASE), 1997-2008
- Executive Council Member, European Science Foundation (ESF), 1998-99
- Board of Governors, Joint Research Center JRC, EU, 1999-2011
- Grand Jury of Marie Curie Excellence Awards, 2003-2004
- Dénes Gábor International Award Committee, (chairman: 2003-2008)
- EUCA (European Control Association), (Chairman: 2009-2011)
In Hungarian Scientific Bodies and Organizations
- Hungarian Society of Measurement and Automation (MATE) (Co-Chairman: 1992-1996, Chairman: 1996-2000, Honorary Chairman: 2000-2012.)
- Advisory Committee for the minister of Science and Technology (OMFB), 1993-1994
- Scientific Council, Bay Zoltán Research Institute, 1994-2002
- Presidium, HAS, 1993-2008
- Council of Research Institutes, HAS (Chairman: 1993-1999)
- Committee of International Relations, HAS (Co-Chairman: 1993-1999; Chairman: 2003-2005)
- Committee of Ethics HAS from 2014
- Election Committee of HAS, from 2016
- Committee of the European Science Foundation ESF (Co-Chairman: 1993-1999)
- Computer Science and Automation Committee, HAS
- Committee of Informatics, HAS
- Board of the Hungarian National Science Foundation (OTKA) (1993-2002; Vice-Chairman: 1996-1999)
- Board of the State Committee of Technological Development OMFB, 1994-2000
- Board of the Széchenyi and Kossuth State Prize Committee, 1996-2000, 2006-2008
- Sub-Committee in Technical Sciences and Engineering, Széchenyi and Kossuth State Prize Committee, 2008-2011
- National Committee of Atomic Energy, 1993-1999
- Advisory Committee for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy of the Prime Minister (TTTT), 2003-2006
- Research and Innovation Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, 2007-2010
- Monitoring Board of the National Development Plan, 2003-2005
- Hungarian Accreditation Board of Higher Education (MAB), 2005-2010
- MAB Committee on Doctoral Schools and Professorial Degrees, 2005-2010
- MAB Committee on Informatics and EE, (Chairman, 2005-2010)
- IFAC National Member Organization
- Hungarian Section of IEEE
- Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Atomic Energy Research Institute of HAS, from 2010
- Hungarian Engineering Academy from 1991
- IEEE Hungarian Section from 1991
Educational activities
Undergraduate and graduate courses at the Dept. of Automation and Applied Informatics, BUTE
- Process modeling and identification
- Hypermedia systems and applications
- Control systems
Undergraduate, graduate and PhD courses at the Dept of Informatics, Széchenyi Istvan University, Győr
- Multimedia
- Computer graphics
- Control systems
- Adaptive systems
Supervisions in Engineering Informatics at BSc and MSc levels
- Head of the Multidisciplinary Doctor School, Faculty of Technical Sciences, SZE, Győr
- Consulting and supervising graduate, postgraduate students and PhD schoolars
Main projects
- Scientific and Industrial Cooperation with Krupp-Polysius
- Hungarian Investigator of the First Joint Research Project between Hungary and NSF, USA (1977-1981), (1982-1985)
- Head of the First Project between Hungary and ARO (US Army Research Office) (1992-1994)
Publication
- 480 scientific papers
- Citations: 1108
- H-index: 15
Publication databases
Publications and citations can be found in the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography Database.
Important publications
Adaptive Iterative Method to Improve the Robustness of PID Regulators
Publication date2022Adaptive Iterative Methods for Simultaneous Identification and Control
Publication date2022Evaluation of All Existing Controller Design Methods
Publication date2022On the Comparison and Evaluation of Some Basic Regulator Design Methods
Publication date2021Innovative Methods of Teaching the Basic Control Course
Publication date2021On the Optimal Topology of Time-Delay Control Systems
Publication date2020Model Based Parameterizations of Different Topologies
Publication date2020Uncertainty, Stability and Robustness of Time-Delay Systems
Publication date2018