Imre Csiszár

Imre Csiszár ( born February 7, 1938 in Miskolc ) is a Hungarian mathematician.

Csiszar studied at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest with the diploma 1961. 1967 he became his doctorate under Alfred Renyi and 1977 Habilitation ( Ph.D. under Russian system ). Since 1961 he was at the Mathematics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (later Alfred Renyi Institute ), where he headed the department of information theory and later the Department of Stochastics in 1968. He is also a professor at the Eotvos Lorand University and taught at the Technical University of Budapest. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Bielefeld, the University of Maryland (College Park), the University of Tokyo, Stanford University and the University of Virginia ( Charlottesville ).

Csiszár deals with information theory and probability theory, where he was particularly influenced by Alfréd Rényi.

In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award. He was awarded the 1989 Prize for Interdisciplinary Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the 1988 Paper Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Csiszár is a Fellow of the IEEE and in 1990 and 1995 corresponding full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was 1996-2006 President of the Hungarian Mathematical Society ( Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat ). In 2013 he received the Dobrushin Prize.

He is married and has four children.

Writings

• János Körner Information theory: Coding theorems for discrete memoryless systems, Academic Press / Akademiai Kiao 1981
• With P. Elias (Editor) Topics in information theory, North Holland 1977
• With Paul C. Shields Information theory and statistics: a tutorial, Hanover (Massachusetts), Now Publishers, 2005
• With G. Michaletzky (Editor) Stochastic differential and difference equations, Birkhäuser 1997
• Gyula OH Katona, Gábor Tardos (Editor) Entropy, search, complexity, Springer Verlag 2007