Curriculum Vitae

Bálint Kiss
assistant professor

Born: 27 August 1973 in Budapest, Hungary
Address (work): Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Department of Control Engineering and Informatics
1117, Budapest, Magyar Tudósok körútja 2.
Phone (work) : (+36 1)4634026, Fax : (+36 1)4632204
e-mail: bkiss@iit.bme.hu
web: http://www.iit.bme.hu/~bkiss

ACTUAL POSITION

1 Nov. 2001 Assistant Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology

STUDIES

23 April 2001 thesis defense in Fontainebleau, France. Dissertation title: Motion planning and control of a class of flat and Liouvillian mechanical systems (in English, available on the web http://cas.ensmp.fr/Publications.) Mention: with high honors and congratulations of the jury.
1997-2001 PhD studies under mutual supervision at the Faculty of Electronics and Informatics of BUTE (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Béla Lantos) and at the Centre Automatique et Systemes of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (with the scholarship of the French Government, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jean Lévine).
1996-97 Postgraduate studies (DEA) in Automation and Signal Processing at the University Paris XI.
1996 M.Sc. in electrical engineering at the BUTE, grade: excelent.
1994-95 two trimesters at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (ENSEEIHT), specialization: advanced automation.
1991 Baccalaureate (Móricz Zsigmond high school)

PUBLICATIONS

16 publications, 9 reviewed papers, 4 journal papers (The complete list is available on the web http://www.iit.bme.hu/~bkiss/pub.htm.)
FIELDS OF COMPETENCE AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Control theory: motion planning, control of nonlinear systems; robotics; control of mechanical systems (under-actuated or nonholonomic); industrial informatics: real-time systems

LANGUAGES

English read, written, spoken
French fluent (interpreter certification)
German basic notions

SCHOLARSHIPS, TEACHING EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE HUNGARY

2002 – 05 Bolyai János Research Scholarhip from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2003 visiting lecturer at the Florida Institue of Technology; class: Control Systems
2003 visiting lecturer at the INSA de Lyon (France, Erasmus/Socrates program)