Biography of Bálint Molnár – Department of Information Systems

Dr. habil. Bálint Molnár

Associate Professor, Dr. habil., Ph.D.
Institute of Informatics Sciences/ Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.

Qualifications, scientific degrees

Higher education qualifications

1976 – 1981 University of Eötvös Loránd, Mathematician, Msc.

Scientific degrees and awards

1997, Ph.D. University of Technology in Budapest

2014, Dr.habil. Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest

1994, Kalmár László Award, John von Neumann Association for Computer Science

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Workplaces

1981 – 1992, Central Research Institute for Physics, Senior Researcher

1992 – 2019, Information Technology Foundation of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Senior Consultant

1992 – 1998, University of Economic Sciences, Assistant Professor

1998 – 2021 Corvinus University in Budapest, Associate Professor

2009 – Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Associate professor, Dr. habil.

Research, professional activity

Major taught courses or fields of education:

Analysis, design, and modeling of Information Systems by object-oriented and structured methods; Formal approach and methods for modeling of Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence, expert systems, ontologies; Information Systems for e-government; Controlling and Auditing Information

Current fields of research

Formal, mathematical-based models for designing, modeling, and validating information systems; Application of data science methods to solve data, function, and process integration issues of enterprise management and health information systems. Enterprise, organizational, business, information systems architecture, and application of formal models.

Previous fields of research:

Knowledge-based systems design methods, methodology; Information System Analysis, Organizational and Design Methodologies – Structured and Object-Oriented Approaches; Database design methodologies.

Major research projects

1994 – 1996, Development of an Analysis and Design system for the CommonKADS methodologyForm of participation: a member of the research team. Funding Organization: European UnionFurther info about research: PEKADS – Project, COPERNICUS program CP 93: 7599

1984 – 1989, Development of a Framework Systems for Knowledge Bases Systems Form of participation: a member of the research team Funding Organization: Central Research Institute for Physics

1981 – 1984, Development of the compiler for Ada programming language. Form of participation: a member of the research team Funding Organization: Central Research Institute for Physics

1999 – 2001, Advisor: A recommender system for issues of Cafeteria. Form of participation: a member of the research team. Funding Organization: Corvinus University in Budapest

2010 – 2013, The trends of the Enterprise Resource Systems and the selection criteria for introducing into companies. Form of participation: a member of the research team. Funding Organization: Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

2012 – 2014, Investigation of properties of the social networks. Form of participation: a member of the research team. Funding Organization: Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, TÁMOP programme.

2017 -2021, Architecture of Information Systems. Form of participation: leader of a research team of the subproject. Funding Organization: Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, EFOP program.

2019 – 2022, ED_18-1-2019-0030 (Application-specific highly reliable IT solutions) has been implemented with the support provided by the National Research, Development, and Innovation. Fund of Hungary, financed under the Thematic Excellence Programme funding scheme. Form of participation: a member of the research team of a subproject. Funding Organization: National Research, Development, and Innovation Fund of Hungary.

Membership in scientific or professional bodies/organizations

1981 – , János Bolyai Mathematical Society, member,
1984 – , member, Neumann Janos Computer Science Association1999 –
2011- , Member of the Hungarian Chapter of ISACA,
2000 – 2014, Member of ISACA Academic Relations Committee, member, ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), Academic Advocate
2015- ACM member,
2017 – , Treasurer of Hungarian Chapter, Association for Computing Machinery

Journals, Board memberships, and positions

Journal	Start date	End date
Information Technology & Politics	1998	–
The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM)	1995	2017
Singidunum Journal of Applied Sciences	2010	2016
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation	2017	–
European Journal of Applied Economics	2016	–
IEEE Access	2018	–