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Membership Number: FCA3522

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: koczy@tmit.bme.hu

Homepage(s): https://www.tmit.bme.hu/koczy.laszlo?language=en 

Present and Previous Positions

Professor (Dean of Engineering 2002-2011) Department of Information Technology, Széchenyi István University

President of the University Doctoral Council and University Research Council (2012 - current), Széchenyi István University

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Computer and Information Sciences

• Introduction of the concept of fuzzy rule interpolation and the development of a family of fuzzy rule interpolation algorithms

• Introduction of the possibility of rule interpolation in hierarchically structured fuzzy rule bases

• Automatic identification of hierarchical interpolative models from input-output data by clustering and evolutionary algorithms

• Investigation of various fuzzy models and the establishment of their mutual equivalence relations

• Concept reduction algorithm for Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

• Analysis of the behavior of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps when non-zero interaction values are uncertain or changing, conditions of fixed point behavior

• Extended Uncertain Cognitive Maps and fixed point behavior

• Introduction of the concept of fuzzy signatures, fuzzy situational maps based on spatial fuzzy signatures, and fuzzy signature state machines

• Fuzzy communication and collaboration of intelligent robots

• Explicit expressions for fuzzy models

• Approximation and stability properties of fuzzy models and algorithms

• Discrete Bacterial Memetic Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving NP-Hard and Uncertain

• abstract problems

• Interpolative fuzzy control of Automatic Guided Vehicles and mobile robots

• Basic results in fuzzy control and dispatching of energetic systems

• Applications in various logistics related problems (routing, packing and packaging, scheduling, marketing and customer satisfaction), introduction of various fuzzy routing models

• Various applications of fuzzy reasoning shell (job exchange, traffic control system, etc.)

• Optimization of fuzzy graphs and unreliable networks

• Information retrieval from verbal documents by fuzzy relational map

• Introduction of the Fuzzy Hough transform

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Higher Education Accreditation Activities

• Member of the Subcommittee on Engineering Sciences, Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC) (2010–2012)

• Member of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC), appointed by the Prime Minister (2012–current)

• Chair of the Subcommittee on Engineering Sciences, HAC (2012–current)

• Member of the Standing Committee for Doctoral Education and Professorships, HAC (2012–2019)

• Co-Chair: 2018–2019

• Chair, Working Group for Professorship Criteria, HAC (2019)

• Member, Standing Committee for Professorships, HAC (2019–current)

• Editor-in-Chief, Accreditation Review, HAC (2019–current)

• Continuous accreditation work in the above bodies

International Accreditation

• Accreditation committee member invited by SKVC (Lithuanian Accreditation Institution) (2010, 2011)

• Accreditation committee leader invited by SKVC (2013–2017)

• Accredited programs: Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Automation Control, Information Technology, Aeronautical Engineering (BA and MA)

• Accreditor by invitation, Australian National University (2014)

• Accredited subject: Algorithms and Data Structures

Professional Organizations and Societies

• Past President, International Fuzzy Systems Association (2003–2005)

• President, International Fuzzy Systems Association (2001–2003)

• President Elect, IFSA (1999–2001)

• Vice President, IFSA (1995–1999)

• Founding Member, EURO Working Group on Fuzzy Sets (1975, now EUSFLAT)

• Founding President, Hungarian Fuzzy Association (1990–1999)

• LIFE Honorary President, Hungarian Fuzzy Association (2005–)

• Senior Member, IEEE (1999–)

• President, IEEE NNS Regional Chapters Board (2001–2002)

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Administrative Committee, Board Member (2005–2010)

• IEEE Systems Council Administrative Committee, Board Member (2011–2012)

• IEEE-CIS Subcommittee for Outstanding Organization Award (2017–2018)

• President, Hungarian Rectors and Deans of Engineering College (2003–2004)

• President, Board for Computer Science and Information Technology, Hungarian Rectors' Conference (2009–2010)

• Member, Supervisory Committee, National PhD Council (Hungary) (2012–2013)

• Member, Committee, National PhD Council (Hungary) (2013–current)

• Member, Advisory Committee on Industrial Safety, Hungarian HQ for Disaster Prevention (2012–current)

• Database of Hungarian Scholarly Works, Member of the Scientific Council (2017–current)

Editorial Roles
Associate Editor / Editorial Board Member of:

• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

• Fuzzy Sets and Systems

• Soft Computing

• International Journal of Fuzzy Systems

• Journal of Advanced Computation and Intelligence

• Mathware and Soft Computing

• Fuzzy Systems & AI

• International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Information Processing

• International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Systems

• Journal of Advanced Computing

• International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems

• Lead Guest Editor at Complexity

Professional Awards

• Certificate of Appreciation – ISMSI (2021)

• Fuzzy Pioneer Award (2019, presentation ceremony 2020)

• Certificate of Appreciation (Institute of Technology Surabaya), EUSFLAT (2019)

• Outstanding Paper Award, IFSA-NAFIPS (2019)

• World Class Professor Award, Indonesian Government (2019)

• Certificate of Appreciation, The 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence (2018)

• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computer Engineering Network and Intelligent Multimedia (2018)

• Best Paper Award, 11th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Computer and Information Engineering (2018)

• Life Fellow, Russian Society for Fuzzy Systems and Computational Intelligence (2018)

• Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Science (2017, inauguration: 2018)

• Best Paper Award, 3rd Conference on Information Technology, Systems Research and Computational Physics (2018)

• Best Paper Award, World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA-SCIS) (2017)

• Order of the Hungarian Republic Commander’s Cross (2017)

• Member, St. Stephan Academy of Science (2016, inauguration: 2017)

• Certificate of Appreciation, Banaras Hindu University (2017)

• Certificate of Appreciation, Invited Speaker, CIIS (2016)

• Certificate of Appreciation, ITMS’16 (2016)

• Appointed Foreign Member, Council of Provosts, Division of Engineering Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (2015–)

• Certificate of Appreciation, Institut Teknologi Brunei (2014)

• Certificate of Appreciation, Plenary Speaker, HNICEM (2014)

• Best Paper Award, Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology, Federated Conf. on Computer Science and Information Systems (2013)

• For Dedication and Service, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2012)

• For Leadership and Service, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (2012)

• Order of the Hungarian Republic Officer’s Cross (2011)

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (2011)

• For Dedicated Service, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2010)

• Life Fellow, International Society of Management Engineers (2009)

• Distinguished Contribution Award, International Symposium on Management Engineering (2009)

• Fellow, International Fuzzy Systems Association (2007)

• Distinguished Contribution Award, World Automation Congress (2006)

• For Notable Services and Contributions, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006)

• Honor for Outstanding Contribution, International Fuzzy Systems Association (2005)

• For Distinguished Contribution, Berkeley Initiative for Soft Computing, University of California (2005)

• László Kozma Medallion (2004)

• Denis Gabor Award (2002)

• Best Paper Award, Systems Science (1985)

• Appreciation by the Minister of Education (1984)

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zeiZA1EAAAAJ&hl=en 

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