Curriculum Vitae

Name: István Kollár
Date of Birth: June 2, 1954.
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian
Marital status: married, wife: Ágnes Michelberger, three children (Zsolt 1983, Dóra 1985, Klára 1990)
Qualifications:

• Graduation: from the Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Branch of Instruments and Control, 1977, "excellent".
• Candidate of Sciences (the second top degree that can be obtained from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by a thesis and examinations; its value approximately corresponds to a Ph.D. degree): 1985. Topic: Measurement Theory of Fourier Analyzers.
• Doctor technicus (from the Technical University of Budapest, on the basis of the degree "Candidate of Sciences").
• Doctor of the Academy Degree: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1998. Title: Quantization Noise.

Languages: English, German fluently spoken; French, Russian good command.

Prizes:

• 1972 XIV. International Olympiad in Mathematics, II. Prize.
• 1973,74,75,76 Mathematical Competition of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Budapest, I. Prize.
• 1977 International Mathematical Competition for students of technical universities, Russe (Bulgaria) I. Prize.
• 1975-76,1976-77 "Scholarship of the Hungarian People's Republic" for excellent school achievements.
• 1975 Scientific Conference of Students, II. Prize, Topic: General Purpose Macroprocessor.
• 1976 Scientific Conference of Students, I. Prize, Topic: Program for Linear Network Analysis.
• 1976 Scientific Conference of Students, Special Prize of the (Hungarian) Scientific Society of Measurement and Automation, Topic: design and construction of a graphic display.
• Andrew R. Chi Best paper Award of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, as co-author of the paper "J. G. Németh, I. Kollár, and J. Schoukens, Identification of Volterra kernels using interpolation, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 770-775, 2002 Aug."

Affiliation: 1977- Technical University of Budapest, Department of Measurement and Instrument Engineering (from 1997: Department of Measurement and Information Systems)
Post: professor
Educational Activities:

• Lectures:
• Digital Signal Processing, Measurement Theory, Stochastic Processes, System Identification, Modelling and Identification of Dynamic Systems, taught in Hungarian
• "Digital Signal Processing", "Fundamentals of Measurement Theory", "Digital and Kalman Filtering" (taught at the Technical University of Budapest), System Identification" (taught at Stanford University, in English)
• Laboratory Classes: Measurement Technology, Design and Construction of Instruments
• Supervising: graduate and postgraduate students.

Research Fields:

• Digital signal processing, quantization and roundoff
• System identification, parameter estimation
• Measurement theory
• Construction of microprocessor controlled instruments.

Research Contracts:

• Performance Analysis of Intelligent Signal Processing Methods and Instruments, 1986-1991, grant of the Hungarian National Fund for Scientific Research (OTKA)
• Analysis, Refinement and Application of Deconvolution Procedures, 1991-1994, grant of the Hungarian National Fund for Scientific Research (OTKA)
• Modeling and Analysis of Uniform Quantization and Its Applications in Measurement and Control, 1993-96, grant of the US-Hungarian Science and Technology Joint Fund
• Development of programs in education and reseach for intelligent signal processing, 1997-99, grant of the Ministry of Education.
• Further Development of the Statistical Theory of Quantization, Modelling and Decreasing of Roundoff Errors, 2000-2003, grant of the Hungarian National Fund for Scientific Research (OTKA)
• Symbolic data processing, 2005-2007, grant of the Hungarian National Fund for Scientific Research (OTKA)

Publications: about 115 scientific papers in English, 15 in Hungarian.
Participation in Industrial Development Projects:

• Development of a Microprocessor Controlled Signal Analyzer,
• Development of a Microprocessor Application System,
• Development of an Industrial Scales System Controller,
• Development of a Frequency Domain System Identification Toolbox (software package) for Matlab.

Scholarships, scientific activity abroad:

• 1982 One month, visiting scholar at the University of Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany
• 1987 One month, visiting scholar at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
• 1989-90 11 months, visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• 1992 Three weeks, visiting scholar at Stanford University, California, USA
• 1993-95 two years, Fulbright scholar and visiting associate professor at Stanford University, California, USA
• 1997-2000 four years, Széchenyi scholarship for Hungarian professors
• 2005 4 months, visiting researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Memberships, Functions:

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Member since 1987, Senior Member since 1993, Fellow since 1997
• Scientific Secretary of TC7 (Technical Committee No. 7 on Measurement Theory) of IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) between 1983 and 1995.
• Secretary of the Hungarian National Organization of IMEKO in 1985-89.
• Editor of "Mérés és Automatika" (Measurement and Automation, scientific journal of the Hungarian Scientific Society of Measurement and Automation), from 1981 to 1987.
• Chief editor of Periodica Polytechnica Ser. Electrical Engineering, the international quarterly of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Budapest, from 1988 to 1991.
• General editor of Periodica Polytechnica, the international quarterly of the Technical University of Budapest, from 1991 to 1998.
• Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1991-93.
• Vice Dean for the Development of Education at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, from 1997.
• Member of the Editorial Review Committee of IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, since 1994.
• Elected Member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, between 1997-2000, and 2003-2006.

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