Plenary Speakers
Prof. Dr. Imre J. Rudas, DSc, Dr.h.c. mult.
IEEE Life Fellow, IFSA Fellow
Junior Past President of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Rector Emeritus, Professor Emeritus Óbuda University, Bécsi út 96/B, H-1034, Budapest, Hungary
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Bio: Imre J. Rudas graduated from Banki Donat Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971, received the Master Degree in Mathematics from the Eotvos Lorand 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 received his first Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia and the second one from “Polytechnica” University of Timisoara, Romania.
He is active as a full university professor. He served as the Rector of Budapest Tech from August 1, 2003 for a period of four years, and was reelected for three years in 2007. From 2010 Budapest Tech was changed to Obuda University and he was elected as the rector for five years.
He is a Fellow of IEEE, Senior Administrative Committee member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, member of Board of Governors of IEEE SMC Society, Chair of IEEE Hungary Section and Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering.
He is the treasurer of IFSA (International Fuzzy System Association), he has been the President of Hungarian Fuzzy Association for ten years.
He serves as an associate editor of some scientific journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, member of editorial board of Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, member of various national and international scientific committees. He is the founder of the IEEE International Conference Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES) and IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics (ICCC), and some international symposia. He has served as General Chairman and Program Chairman of numerous scientific international conferences.
At the Board of Governors meeting during the flagship conference of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society on October 7, 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan, Imre J. Rudas is elected for the position of Society President at the period of 2020-2021. Imre J. Rudas has been extremely active in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has been IEEE Fellow since 2002, IEEE Hungary Section chair (2007-11), and founder of IES/RAS Joint Chapter, Computational Intelligent Chapter, and SMC Chapter in Hungary. He has attended numerous IEEE conferences as speaker, special session organizer or plenary/invited speaker. He’s been playing a very active role in SMC Society since 2002, as R8 Chapter Coordinator, member of the Board of Governors, Distingues Lecturer, VP for Membership and Student Activities. He was the General Chair of the flagship conference of SMC Society, organized in Budapest, 2016.
Board of Governors members of SMC Society elect for the next president every second year, and this year they did it during the SMC 2018 international conference (October 7-10, 2018, Miyazaki, Japan), where they voted for Imre J. Rudas, the founding Rector of Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary, active IEEE member, and highly appreciated professor of Hungarian and international scientific life. According to the voting Imre J. Rudas is the President-Elect of IEEE SMC Society.
His present areas of research activity are Computational Cybernetics, Robotics with special emphasis on Robot Control, Soft Computing, Computed-aided Process Planning, Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Sets. He has published books, more than 500 papers in books, various scientific journals and international conference proceedings. He received more than 8000 citations for his publications.
Dec 21, 2023