Prof. Dr. János Fodor

Prof. Dr. János Fodor
full professor
vice rector for science

Date and Place of Birth:
November 17, 1956., Szikszó

Education, scientific degrees
2004. Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (D.Sc.) Thesis: Preference Structures and Aggregation Procedures.
2000. Dr. Habil., Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest
1991. Took academic degree "Candidate in Science" (C.Sc., Ph.D.) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Thesis: Fuzzy Preference Modelling.
1984. Took first post-graduate degree (Univ. Dr.) at ELTE. Thesis: Extreme Value Distributions with Application to Mathematical Programming.
1981. M.Sc. in Mathematics - Operations Research at ELTE, Budapest.

Knowledge of languages
English - written, spoken
Russian - written, spoken

Position held
2005 - Vice Rector for Science (Budapest Tech)
2005 - Full Professor (Institute of Intelligent Engineering Systems, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Budapest Tech)
2004 - Head, Full Professor (Department of Biomathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University)
1999 - 2004 Head, Associate Professor (Department of Biomathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University)
1995 - 1999 Associate Professor (Department of Mathematics, GATE)
1992 - 1995 Associate Research Professor (Department of Computer Science, ELTE)
1983 - 1992 Research Fellow (Department of Operations Research, Computer Center, ELTE)
1981 - 1983 Holder on a scholarship (Department of Probability Theory, ELTE)

Fields of interest
Valued preference modelling. Fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory. Multicriteria decision making. Modelling of uncertainty in geology. Stochastic problems of OR.

Teaching experience
1981 - Graduate, postgraduate and PhD courses, in Hungarian and in English, at diverse Hungarian universities (ELTE, GATE, BME, ÁOTE, SzIE) in different topics (Biomathematics; Informatics, Operations research; Mathematical statistics; Algebra; Mathematical foundation of computer science).
Supervisor of degree theses (17 times), PhD theses (3 times), and a thesis for the "dr. univ" title.

Professional experience and activity
2005 - Editor of the International Journal Computing and Informatics.
2003 - Elected Member of the Operational Research Committee at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
1998 - Area Editor of the International Journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems.
1998 - Co-chair of the EURO Working Group on Fuzzy Sets (EUROFUSE).
1998 - Co-president of the Hungarian Fuzzy Association.
1987 - Doing research work in the field of valued preference modelling and multicriteria decision making, and of fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory; in particular on basic mathematical problems, and applications to geology. Results: D.Sc. thesis, C.Sc. thesis, 2 monographs (published by Kluwer, Springer); 2 edited volumes (published by Physica-Verlag, Academia Press); 18 chapters in books; 47 papers in international scientific journals; 100 lectures at international conferences (4 plenary, 2 semiplenary, 1 tutorial, 30 invited); 26 other publications; 576 references to my work in papers of other scientists (Web of Science, October 27, 2004). Cumulative impact factor: 15.176.
1981 - 1986. Doing research work in the theory of generalized concavity and limit distributions of extreme order statistics. Results: Univ. doctoral thesis, 5 papers, 10 lectures.
1989 - Referee for scientific journals (Fuzzy Sets and Systems; European Journal of Operational Research; Information Sciences; IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems; International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems; Theory and Decision, Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences; Annals of Operations Research; Annales Univ. Sci. Budapest.; Belgian Journal of Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science; Sochow Journal of Mathematics; etc), for Springer-Verlag and for several international conferences.
1994 - Member of juries for Ph.D. theses in mathematics (many times in Hungary, three times in Belgium, Spain, Finland).
1989 - 1992. Scientific Secretary of the Computer Center, ELTE.

Congress administration
2005 General Chair of the SOFA IEEE Conference (August 27-30, 2005, Szeged and Oradea).
2005 Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computational Cybernetics (April 13-16, 2005, Hotel Le Victoria, Mauritius).
2003 - Program Committee Member of the EURO XX Conference.
2003 - Program Committee Member of the Linz Seminar Series.
2003 - Area Chair (Foundations) for the IFSA World Congress 2003.
1998 - General Chair of the Joint EUROFUSE-SIC '99 International Conference
(May 25-28, 1999, Budapest, Hungary).
1990 - Member of the organizing/program/steering committees, invited speaker, invited session organizer, session chairman for several international conferences.

Visits
2003:  Ghent University, Gent (Belgium): visiting researcher (1 month).
2002:  Ghent University, Gent (Belgium): visiting researcher (3 months).
2001:  Ghent University, Gent (Belgium): visiting researcher (3 months).
1999: University of the Balearic Islands, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Palma de Mallorca (Spain): visiting research professor (1 month).
1998: University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris (France): visiting research professor (6 weeks).
1997: University Paul Sabatier, IRIT, Toulouse (France): visiting research professor (1 month).
1996: University of the Balearic Islands, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Palma de Mallorca (Spain): visiting research professor (1 month).
1996: University of Gent, Department of Applied Mathematics, Gent (Belgium): TEMPUS visit (3 months).
1995: University of Trento, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Trento (Italy): visiting research professor (1 month).
1995: University of Gent, Department of Applied Mathematics, Gent (Belgium): TEMPUS visit (3 months).
1993: University of Liege, Institute of Mathematics, Liege (Belgium): visiting research professor (1 month).

Honors and recent contracts
2004 - 2007 Preference structures in decision models, Contract: National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary (OTKA) T046762. Prime contractor.
2001 - 2003 Principles of fuzzy preference modelling and decision making, Contract: Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Flanders-Hungary BIL00/51 (B-08/2000). Prime contractor.
2001 - 2003 Theory and Applications of Relational Structures as Knowledge Instruments (COST Action 274), Hungarian Representative in the Management Committee.
2000 - 2002 Preference modelling on ordered structures, Contract: Higher Education Research and Development Programme, Hungary (FKFP) 0051/2000. Prime contractor.
1997 - 2000 Szechenyi Professorship
1998 - 2001 Maxitive preferences, Contract: National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary (OTKA) T025163. Prime contractor.

Membership
1998- Hungarian Operations Research Society
1998- Hungarian Fuzzy Association - co-president
1998- EUSFLAT - The European Fuzzy Society - founding member
1990- EURO Working Group on Fuzzy Sets (EUROFUSE) - coordinator
1990- EURO Working Group on Aid for Multicriteria Decisions
1990- ESIGMA - EURO Summer Institute Group on Multicriteria Analysis

Award
1987. "Farkas Gyula Prize" of the Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society (for applications of mathematics).
1997 - 2000 Széchenyi Professorship.