Prof. Dr. László T. Kóczy received a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Budapest in 1977 and a D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1998. He spent his career at BME until 2001, and from 2002 to the present, he has been at Szechenyi Istvan University, where he is the Dean of Engineering and the President of University Research and of the University Ph.D. Councils. He was a member of the National Doctoral Council and of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee. He has been a visiting professor in Japan, Australia, Korea, Austria, and Italy. He is a recipient of the IEEE Fuzzy Pioneer Award. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has several life fellowships, and received a Dr.h.c. from the Timisoara University of Technology. His research interests include applications of CI for telecommunication, transportation and logistics, vehicles and mobile robots, control, built environment evaluation and maintenance problems, information retrieval, employee attitude evaluation with fuzzy and evolutionary-memetic algorithms and model construction, and management system investigation.