Rector, Obuda University
Levente Kovacs received his electrical engineering degree in 2000 (“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania) and biomedical engineering in 2011 (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary). He received his PhD from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2008. He is full professor of Obuda University from 2016. In 2024 he received his DSc from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
His fields of interest are modern control theory and physiological controls – within these subjects, he has published more than 600 articles in international journals and refereed international conference papers, accumulating an impact factor over 300 and h-index 34, citations number 5000+. He is Stanford top 2% cited researcher.
Currently, he is the rector / president of Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary from 2019.
He founded the Physiological Controls Research Center at Obuda University in 2013 being the head of it. He was János Bolyai Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 2012-2015. He is recipient of the Dennis Gabor award (2022), and is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Timisoara, Romania (2022), Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia (2022), Partium Christian University of Oradea, Romania (2023), Slovak Technical University (2024), and honorary professor of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania (2022), and Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology, Uzbekistan (2023).
In 2015 he was the recipient of the highly prestigious ERC StG grant of the European Union.
From 2025 he is the president of the John von Neumann Computer Society. From 2024 he is vice president of the Hungarian Rectors Conference.
Internationally Dr. Kovacs is the initiator of the cybermedical terminology, founding in 2016 under the Cybernetics Technical Committee of the IEEE SMC Society the Cyber-Medical Technical Committee. He is IEEE member since 2009, and from 2018 IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Kovács is Board of Governors member of the IEEE SMC Society from 2024. He is member of the Hungarian Diabetes Association (HDA) from 2010 as well where he founded and running the Hungarian Artificial Pancreas Working Group. He was awarded as lifetime achievement award by the HDA as first engineer of the association with Geza Hetenyi award.
