András Recski is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he served as the head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics for 21 years. He is also part time professor of computer science at the L. Eötvös University of Budapest. As a visiting professor he taught at Yale, Cornell, and at several universities in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and Turkey. He was the John von Neumann-Professor of the Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft at the University of Bonn in 1999. He serves in the editorial board of several mathematics journals. His major research area is matroid theory and combinatorial optimization, with applications in electric engineering and in statics. He has about 160 publications, including a monograph published by Springer and several university textbooks. He has edited/coedited several conference proceedings.