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with co-authors several university lecture notes and textbooks. She has more than 130 publications written mainly in English. In 2011 a book on predictive control has been published by Wiley with coauthors R. Haber and U. Schmitz: Predictive Control in Process Engineering: From the Basics to the Applications.
In 1999, 2003 and 2006 she was a visiting lecturer at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and in 2002 at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA giving short PhD courses in predictive control. In 2008 she participated in a Marie Curie project at the University of Sevilla related to predictive control.

Between 1996 and 2002 she was the head of the IFAC TC on Optimal Control. From 2002 to 2008 she served IFAC as the head of the Coordinating Committee on Design Methods. In 2008 she has gained the IFAC outstanding service award.

She has gained the Frigyes Csáki medal of the Hungarian Scientific Society for Automation, Measurement Technics and Informatics. In 2016 she obtained the Knight's Cross medal of the Republic of Hungary.

Jeno Hetthéssy was born in Budapest, Hungary, on April 23, 1948. He graduated at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1971. To start with he worked for the Research Institute for Electric Power, then joined the staff of the the Department of Automation of TUB. As a visiting professor he spent a number of semesters at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Minnesota, USA. Meanwhile he was invited to lead the Process Control Division of the Computer and Automation Research Institute (CARI), Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1994 till 2013 he was the vice-head of the Department of Automation and Applies Informatics, TUB. Presently he is a senior R&D advisor at the Department.

His special fields of interest are adaptive control of industrial processes and computer controlled systems. In 2013 he obtained the Knight's Cross medal of the Republic of Hungary.

András Barta was born in Makó, Hungary, on November 16, 1961. He graduated at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1986. In 1999 he joined the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. From 1999-2002 he worked as a research fellow, then from 2002 as assistant professor and senior lecturer.

His research field is control theory, pattern recognition. He supervised a number of student projects in these fields. He is member of IEEE Computer Society and member of the Hungarian Society of Automation, Measurement and Informatics.

Csilla BÁNYÁSZ was born in Újpest, Hungary, on February 10, 1946. She graduated at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) in 1969. She was invited to the Computer and Automation Research Institute (CARI), HAS, by Tibor Vámos, former president of IFAC and she has been working there since 1969.

She is a senior research fellow of the institute and serves the IFAC NMO as chairperson (formerly secretary). She was the editor of several IFAC conferences, symposia and workshops organized in Hungary.

Her special fields of interest are system identification and parameter estimation, adaptive optimal control of industrial processes, computer controlled systems, simulation and modeling, intelligent and expert controls, C3I (Control, Communication, Computation, Intelligence).

In 2013 she obtained the Knight's Cross medal from the president of Hungary.