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BARANYI, Péter

Positions

  • Research Professor, Head of Cognitive Informatics research group involved in the System and Control Laboratory, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)
  • Professor, Dept. Telecommunication and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)

Affiliation

Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2003)

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (since  1999)

Address

Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17, Hungary
Phone: (+36) 1 279-6111
Mobile: (+36) 20 455-4796
Fax: (+36) 1 466-7503
E-mail: baranyi@sztaki.hu

Studies

Technical University of Budapest, Electrical Engineering and  Informatics, M.Sc. 1994 // Natural and Human Sciences, M.Sc. 1995

Degrees

Ph.D., Technical University of Budapest, 1999
D.Sc., Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2006
Habil., Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2007

Research fields

Robust and multi-objective control design based on Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) models, Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) and TP model transformation based modeling and convex hull manipulation. Complexity and approximation trade-off in system modeling. Cognitive info-communications. 3D Internet based Communications and Control.

Awards and Honors

International

  • Canadian /International Constituency Group Young Investigator Award, 2006.
    Sigma Xi the Scientific Research Society.
  • International Dennis Gábor Medal, 2000.
    Awarded by the NOVOFER Foundation for Technical and Intellectual Creation.
  • STA Award, 2000.
    Awarded by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Dept. International Affairs.
  • SAMSUNG Young Scientist (1st prize),
    Awarded by the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Budapest, 2003.
National
  • Bolyai Memorial Award, MTA, 2010.
  • Institutional Award, MTA SZTAKI, 2005, 2007
  • János Kemény Prize of the John von Neumann Computer Society, 2005
  • Outstanding Young Technological Innovator of the Year 2002, II. Prize.
  • Dénes Huszty Memorial Award, 2002.
  • Youth Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2000.
Postdoctoral scholarships
  • János Bolyai, 2006.
  • György Békésy, 2003.
  • Zoltán Magyary, 2001 and 2002.

Education

  • 2007: Memorial Award for supervising student research activity, „TDK munkáért emlékplakett”, BME Rector
  • 2005: Pro Sciencia Award for supervising student research activity, Council of National Scientific Students’ Associations
  • 1999: Rector Prize for supervising students, Technical University of Budapest.

Publications

Number of publications:   ~300   (67 journal papers)
Cumulative Impact Factor: ~26
H-index: 15

Number of independent citations:   ~1000   (330 in journal papers, 58 in books)

He was invited more than 50 times to give seminars at various universities and research institutes.

Robot applications developed in his research groups were introduced at different industrial exhibitions and scientific forums.

 

Invited visits abroad

He was project leader (1 year) and had researcher positions at different universities and research institutes in total about 4 years.
University of Hull, England, 2002 // Gifu Research Institute, 2000 // Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996 and 1998 // University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1997 // Tokyo University, Harashima Hashimoto Lab, Tokyo, 1999 // Technical University of Duisburg, Germany, 1997 // CRNS LAAS Science Center, Toulouse, France, 1996.

Membership and service

  • Member of Hungarian Academy of Engineering, 2006-
  • Member of the Committee on Automation and Computer Science and the Committee on Information Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (2006-)
  • Elected secretary general of the Hungarian Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (2002-)
  • Secretary general of the International Dennis Gábor Award Committee (2002-)
  • Elected vice president (2003-), elected secretary general (1999-2003), international secretary (1996-1999)of the Hungarian Fuzzy Systems Association
  • Elected deputy president of Zoltán Magyary Scientific Association (two times,  2005,2006). 

He took part about 30 times in different organizing committees of international conferences and organized special sections several times.

Initiator and organizer of International research laboratories

  • Integrated Intelligent Systems Japanese-Hungarian Laboratory (IISL) founded in Vancouver in 2001. (www.iisl-lab.org)
  • Emerging Information Technology in Manufacturing Hungarian-Norwegian Laboratory (ITM) founded in MTA SZTAKI in 2004. (www.itm-lab.org, www.itm-lab.eu)
  • iSpace Laboratory Network founded in Hong Kong in 2009 (www.ispace-labnet.org)
Project Coordinator
  • JISTEC-STA (Japan Int. Sci.&Tech. Exchange Center), ID 299165, „Intelligent robot guiding”, 2000-2001, Gifu Pref. Research Inst. Japan.
  • FKFP 0128/2001 Intelligent Information Retrieval, 2001-2003.
  • OTKA F030056, Robot hand controlled by inteligent algroithms 1999-2002. // OTKA F049838, Soft-computing methods for controlling nonlinear systems, 2005-2008.
  • GVOP, supervisor at BME, Rehabilitation of pipes, 2005-2006.
  • NKTH NAP Program: „Cooperational Centre in the field of data analysis of communication networks /  Kooperatív Centrum a kommunikációs hálózatok adatanalízise területén” (KCKHA005), supervisor at the consortium partner MTA SZTAKI, 2008-2011. 180MFt. (and supervisor of the whole robot control part of the project (270MFt, 1 MEUR)
  • EGT/Norwegian Financial Mechanism, EEA Grants: „Hungarian-Norwegian research based innovation for development of a new, environmental friendly, competitive robot technology for selected target groups (HUNOROB)” project leader, 2008-2011, (0045/NA/2006-2/ÖP-9), 657 MFt, 2,4 MEUR.
  • NKTH-ERC IDEAS: „Canonical and various convex manipulations of LPV models based on TP models/LPV modellek TP modell alapú kanonikus és különböző konvex manipulációi” 2009-2014, (azonosító: MTASZTAK) 93MFt.
  • TÁMOP: „New, ethological model based generation of the relation between human and information systems / Ember és informatikai rendszerek kapcsolatának új, etológiai modell alapú generációja (ETOCOM)”, (TÁMOP-4.2.2/08/1/KMR-2008-0007) 2009-2011. 377MFt (1,37 MEUR)