Prof. Tamás Szirányi, Electrical Engineer and Artificial Intelligence scientist, was received his Ph.D. and D.Sci. degrees in 1991 and 2001, by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. He was appointed to a Full Professor position in 2001 at Pannon University, Veszprém, and, in 2004, at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest. Presently he is a professor emeritus at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

He has been a research scientist at the Institute for Computer Science and Control (MTA/HUN-REN SZTAKI), since 1992, where he leads the Machine Perception Research Laboratory since 2006. With his research laboratory he has been participated in several prestigious international (ESA, EDA, FP6, FP7, HORISON) projects. The main topics with his laboratory are: Earth observation, Machine perception, Sensor fusion, Robot localisation, Geo-information computation, Surveillance camera networks, Human-Computer intefaces.

Dr. Szirányi was the founder and past president (1997 to 2002) of the Hungarian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE T. Image Processing (2003-2009), and he has been an AreaEd of Digital Signal Processing since 2012. He was honoured by the Master Professor award in 2001, by the ProScientia (Veszprem) award in 2011, and by the Officers'Cross by the president of Hungary (2018). He is a Fellow both of the Int. Assoc. Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Assoc,  and the Hungarian Academy of Engineering from 2008. He has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2022.

He has more than 330 publications including 90 in major scientific journals, and several international patents.