Levente Kovacs received his MSc degrees in electrical engineering 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 defended his habilitation with merit in 2013 at Obuda University. 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 500 articles in international journals and refereed international conference papers, accumulating an impact factor over 200 and h-index 33, citations number 4500+. He is Stanford top 2% cited researcher.
Currently, he is the rector / president of Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary. He is full professor from 2016 of the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics at Obuda University, Biomatics and Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute. He is board member of the Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at Obuda University and the Habilitation and Doctoral Committee of Obuda University.
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 IEEE member since 2009, and from 2018 IEEE Senior Member. From 2012 he is IEEE EMBS and IEEE SMC Society member, and IEEE CSS Society member from 2013. At IEEE Hungary Section level Dr. Kovács was the chair of it from 2017 to 2020, while in 2022 he was reelected. Since 2015 he acts as chair of the IEEE SMC Hungary Chapter, while in 2018 he founded and is chair of the IEEE Control Society Hungary Chapter. Dr. Kovacs is Board of Governors member of the IEEE SMC Society from 2024. He is member of the IFAC TC 8.2 “Biological and Medical Systems” form 2010, member of the IFAC TC 9.4 “Control Education” from 2017, and member of the Hungarian Diabetes Association from 2010 as well where he founded and running the Hungarian Artificial Pancreas Working Group.
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 (2022), and Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology (2023).
In 2016 he has founded under the Cybernetics Technical Committee of the IEEE SMC Society the Cyber-Medical Technical Committee promoting the theory and practice of personalized healthcare.
In 2015 he was the recipient of the highly prestigious ERC StG grant of the European Union in tumor control that aimed to research the context of personalized tumor control by control engineering methods as a double optimization min-max problem: reducing the therapy cost and maximizing the quality of life.