Curriculum vitae

Name: Istvan ELEK
Birth-date, place: 10th of December, 1956, Budapest, Hungary
Education:Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), from 1976 till 1981, MSc in geophysics

Postgraduate:

• Theory of the robust statistical estimations (1984, University of Miskolc)
• Training in USA for two months concerning to the software development in oil industry (modeling, GIS, statistics) (1986, Occidental, Tulsa, Oklahoma)
• Programming in C language (1988, The Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
• English on Business (European Business School, London, 1989)
• Training in Zurich for two months concerning development, organization and implementation of object-oriented GIS by SYSTEM 9 (1992., PRIME Computervision, Zurich)
• GIS course (INTERGRAPH, Hague, 1991)
• Image processing course on satellite images (ER Mapper Europe, London, Stuttgart, 1996)
• Microsoft.net courses in 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010

Language: English (fluent) and Italian (basic level)

Dissertations:

• Dr. univ. of geophysics, (1988, ELTE, dissertation: "Geophysical Applications of Principal Component Analysis")
• Ph.D.  (2001, ELTE, dissertation: "An application of geographical information systems in oil industry")
• Habilitation (2009, ELTE, dissertation: "Automatic raster-vector conversion in geoinformatics")

Books and chapters:

• Ivanyi at al (including I. Elek): Informatical algorithms, ELTE Eotvos kiado (publisher), 2004 (in Hungarian)
• Istvan Elek: Introduction to GIS, ELTE Eotvos kiado (publisher), 2006 (in Hungarian)
• Istvan Elek: GIS in practice, ELTE Eotvos kiado (publisher), 2007 (in Hungarian)
• Ivanyi et al (including I. Elek): English-Hungarian informatical vocabulary, Tinta kiado, 2008 (in Hungarian)
• Istvan Elek: Databases, maps, information systems; ELTE Eotvos kiado (publisher), 2010
• Istvan Elek: Topological spatial datastructures; Typotex kiado (publisher), 2015
• Istvan Elek: Spontaneous emergence of the intelligence; ELTE Eotvos kiado (publisher), 2015

Other scientific events:

• I won the second prize of a competition of the Hungarian Scientific Academy for my activity and publication in multivariate statistics segmentation and their applications (in this topic I published papers in an American journal, GEOBYTE 1988. and 1990.).
• Regarding my publications about the applications of multivariate statistics in well logging my methods are cited and mentioned many times in several papers and books, such as "Geologic Log Analysis Using Computer Methods" by John H. Doveton, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, Published by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
• The greatest geophysical research project, the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) referenced my publications of multivariate statistics. These methods were applied for acquisition of well logging data

Computer skills:

• Programming languages: FORTRAN 77, TURBO PASCAL, HTML 4, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET)
• RDBMS: MySql, MSSQL Server, Postgres/PostGIS
• GIS developer kitts: MapControlSuites 4, AspMap, SharpMap2.0, GMaps
• Practice in: SYSTEM 9, ER Mapper, ArcGIS, MapInfo, Vertical Mapper, Global Mapper, Quantum GIS
• Operation systems: Solaris, Windows, Linux
• Other: Experienced in Latex2E, MSOffice, LibreOffice

Member of

• HUNGARIAN SOCIETY of SURVEYING, MAPPING and REMOTE SENSING
• John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT)
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
• Internatonal Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition international committe (AIPR-2009, 2010)
• Reviewer of International Journal of Remote Sensing (Taylor & Francis Group)

Employment:

1981 - 1990: SZKFI (Hungarian Hydrocarbon Institute) as a research fellow

Activity

• data processing and interpretation; software and method development regarding to multivariate statistical methods, time-series and trend-analysis, solution of not-well-defined problems and graphical programs
• numeric modelling of electromagnetic vawe propagation in layered materials
• the investigation of expert systems. I and my colleagues developed a geophysical expert system.
• I have been dealing with sale of our own programs. Some of our programs were sold successfully for Eastern-European countries.

1990 - 1991: GEOMETRIA GIS Systems House Ltd. as a project manager

Activity:

• Making plans of geographical information system, and making management, railway information system for MAV, utilities: Electricity works of Budapest, Water works of Budapest, education of GIS.

1991 - 2003: ISIS Ltd. as a president

Activity:

• I prepared the long term strategy plan and the detailed system plan for the National Authority for Nature Conservation for EC PHARE office.
• I was the project manager of a GIS project for the National Authority for Nature Conservation.
• I was a project manager of a GIS project for Ministry of Labour Issues targeted handling of unemployment.
• Based on my system design a decision support system was introduced in the Ministry of Interior
• I was a system planer and project leader for an agricultural GIS project handling soil information.
• I prepared the sytem plan for the geogrphical information system of Torokbalint city focused on land registration and facility management.
• We developed a electromagnetic power field analysing system for mobil phones in Westell 900 GSM.
• I was the project manager and the system designer of the information system for the Hungarian Oil Company (MOL) for foreign concession activity on the oil researche for three years.
• I was the project manager and the system designer of the information system for the Hungarian Oil Company (MOL) in Turkey.
• I have been the project manager and the system designer of the information system for Syrian oil researche for the Hungarian Oil Company (MOL).
• I have been the leader of the ISO 9001 quality management system at ISIS
• I made some Microsoft VisualStudio application with ESRI MapObjects and Mapinfo MapX for local governments and Ministry of Environment
• I was a supervisor of the cadastral information system for Budapest Land and Parcel Offices (ORACLE, INFOCAM systems)
• I made the Nature Conservation Index for Ministry of Environment, that is an integrated Visual Basic application including 2 GB data (photos, maps, descriptions) on every national park and protected area in Hungary.

2003 - : Eotvos Lorand University, Faculty of Computer Science, Department of Geoinformatics, as a habil. associate professor.

Activity: http://mapw.elte.hu

• Giving lectures on spatial information systems and databases, and software development in C#
• Lead PhD students on evolution modelling and big spatial databases
• Big data: a digital map archive has been being developed. Recent size is 0.5TByte
• Machine learning: research and develop digital evolutionary machine's world
• Spatial databases: research spatial topological data structures