Imre J. Rudas

Biography

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 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. Honorary Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and had been the President of IEEE systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Currently he is  Senior Past President, Chair of Awards and Fellow Evaluation Committees of the Society. He is a Fellow of International Fuzzy Systems Association and had been its Vice-President and Treasurer. His present areas of research activities are Computational Cybernetics, Cyber Physical Control, Robotics, Systems of Systems. He has edited and/or published 22 books, published more than 920 papers in international scientific journal, conference proceedings and book chapters, and received more than 9600 citations.