András LŐRINCZ
professor, senior researcher has been teaching at
the Faculty of Informatics at Eötvös
University, Budapest since 1998. His research focuses on distributed
intelligent systems and their applications in neurobiological and cognitive modeling,
as well as medicine. He has founded the Neural Information Processing Group of Eötvös University
and he directs a multidisciplinary team of mathematicians, programmers,
computer scientists and physicists. He has acted as the PI of several successful
international projects in collaboration with Panasonic, Honda Future Technology
Research and the Information Directorate of the US Air Force in the fields of
hardware-software co-synthesis, image processing and human-computer
collaboration. He took part in the New Ties and the Percept projects of EU Framework
Programmes.
He graduated in physics at the Eötvös Loránd
University in 1975 where
he received his PhD in 1978 and his CSc in 1986 in experimental and theoretical
solid-state physics and chemical physics, respectively. In the field of laser physics,
he is a habilitated professor of the University of Szeged (1998), whereas he
habilitated in the field of Informatics at the Eötvös Loránd University in
2008. He conducted research and taught quantum control, photoacoustics and
artificial intelligence at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of
Chicago, Brown University, Princeton University, the Illinois Institute of
Technology and ETH Zurich. He authored about 200 peer reviewed scientific
publications. In 1997-1998 he was the scientific director of the Hungarian
subsidiary of US-based Associative Computing Ltd.
He has received the Széchenyi
Professor Award, Master Professor Award and the Széchenyi István Award in 2000,
2001, and 2004, respectively. Four of his students won the prestigious Pro
Scientia Gold Medal in the field of information science over the last 6 years. In
2004, he was awarded the Kalmár Prize of the John von Neumann Computer Society
of Hungary. He has become an elected Fellow of the European Coordinating
Committee for Artificial Intelligence for his pioneering work in the field of
artificial intelligence in 2006.