Curriculum Vitae

István Harmati
assistant lecturer

Personal date

Degree: M. Sc. in electrical engineering
Telephone: (+36) 28 495 384 (home), 463 2319 (BME),
(+36) 4546573 (cellphone)
Fax: (+36) 463 2319 (BME)
Email: harmati@seeger.iit.bme.hu
Web: www.iit.bme.hu/~harmati
Room: B313
Laboratory: Intelligent robotics

Jobs

2002-
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Department of Control Engineering and Information
Technology (BUTE-DCEIT)
Assitant lecturer

2000-2001
Experimental Robotics Laboratory
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Research Assistant

Education

1998- 2002 BUTE-DCEIT
Research field: Nonlinear control theory
PhD Student
Doctoral Program for Science of Electrical Engineering
Admission with Government scholarship

1993-1998 Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Faculty of Electronics Engineering and Informatics
Main specialzation: Control Engineering and Robot Informatics
Minor specialization: Software Technology
M. Sc. Electrical Engineer
Qualification: Excellent
Diploma No:
PT A 002467 34/1998

1989-1993 Egressy Gábor Industrial Highschool
Control artisan
Document No:
13-4E/1993
Qualification: Excellent

Language skills

1998
Intermediate state examination of type "C"
Doc. No: A 193/98 English

1997 Intermediate state examination of type "C"
Doc. No: N/67/1997 German

Other courses

2001 January
International Teaching Assistant Program (level I) Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

2001 August
International Teaching Assistant Program (level II)

Initial Scientific works and results

2000
Poster presentation
Discussion on the day of science about "Students of today - scientists of tomorrow" ("Ma diákjai – A jövő tudósai” ) organized by the Ministry of Education, Hungary

2000
Best talk of the section award
Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science, Szeged

1999
3rd place
24th National Scientific Conference for Student

1998
Presentation
Conference for graduate students of BUTE

1997
1st place of the award of „Innotech Műegyetemi Innovációs Park”
Scientific Conference for the Students of the Faculty of Electrical Eengineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology

Research work

2000-2001
Project: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, Research Grant 611205
(Status: Research Assistant)
Experimental Robotics Laboratory
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada

1998-2001
Project: Research of Intelligent robot hand/vision and microrobot system,
Research & Development Programs in Higher Education (FKFP) 0417/1997
BUTE-DCEIT

1990-2002
Project: Research of Modern Robot Control Theory and Increasing Intelligence
Hungarian National Research Programs
(OTKA) T 029072
BUTE-DCEIT

2002- Project:
Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR),
European Union, EU GIRT-CT-2002
BUTE-DCEIT,
In cooperation with Universities from European Union, North- America and Japan.

Research area

Nonlinear control theory, legged robots, differential geometry, game theory

Scholarships, appreciations

2002 Gained Siemens scholarship for PhD students
2001 Gained special scholarschip of "Support for Normative research and doctoral education" by the Ministry of Education, Hungary
1997 Gained scholarship of Budapest University of Technology

Functions in Scientific Societies:

2002- Program Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Model and Methods in Automation and Robotics
2002 Invited reviewer for an article in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
1998- IEEE member. Membership No.: 41251257
2002- Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society
2002- Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society