Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) is Hungary’s most prestigious university with the richest traditions and the highest international and national rankings in the country, where tradition and innovation go hand-in-hand. ELTE consists of 9 various faculties and institutes, offering a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. ELTE offers more than 60 degree programs in foreign languages in the fields of Education and Psychology, Humanities, Informatics, Law, Social Sciences, and Science. ELTE has a large student body of over 28,000 students, including a significant number of international students. The university offers a variety of student support services, including housing, scholarships, and career counseling. Research at ELTE comprises international collaborations, interdisciplinary approaches, modern laboratory infrastructure, and innovation. Our researchers run cutting-edge projects funded by the European Union and national institutions. Along with international partners, our research groups also establish strong connections with the industry. ELTE boasts a diverse and dynamic research environment that covers a wide range of fields including natural sciences, mathematics and informatics, humanities, social sciences, psychology, and educational sciences. With 16 doctoral schools offering 126 doctoral programs, ELTE provides a fertile ground for academic endeavor and intellectual inquiry.
75% of the faculty staff have higher academic degrees, including distinguished scholars such as recipients of prestigious awards such as the Wolf Prize and the Kyoto Prize. Their expertise contributes to an extensive research output with approximately 7,000 publications in the Web of Science database over the past five years, half of which are published in Q1 journals. ELTE’s normalized citation impact has a high category level of 1.5, with 60% of publications having at least one international co-author, facilitating the global exchange of ideas and expertise. The university hosts a number of research groups, including 30 in collaboration with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), 14 Momentum (“Lendület”) research groups, 5 ERC research groups, and 16 Horizon research groups. This extensive network fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and drives innovation, strengthening ELTE’s position as a leading research institution in Hungary and beyond.
With more than 3.000 students, 5 double degree master’s programmes and an EIT Digital Doctoral Training Centre ELTE Faculty of Informatics plays a leading role in research and education of computer science in Hungary. The Faculty’s study programmes focus on Software Technology, Information Systems, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Autonomous Systems, Mathematical Modelling, and Fintech. Major domains of basic and applied research are software technology for reliable systems, static source code analysis, geometric computer vision, software defined networks, large scale data analysis, data science applications in agroinformatics, hyper-parameter tuning, several areas and applications of AI, machine learning and human-machine interactions, software technology for quantum computing, quantum resistant cryptography, I4.0, mathematical modelling for image and signal processing, secret sharing schemes, cryptographically secure protocols, blockchain technology. On the basis of these topics the Faculty has developed in the past two decades a complex innovation ecosystem with partnerships from all over the world. ELTE is also part of the HumanE AI Network, which brings together leading European research centres, universities, and industrial enterprises into a network of centres of excellence to develop trustworthy AI systems that can understand humans.
Key persons:
- Dr. Máté Tejfel, associate professor at the Department of Programming Languages and Compilers in the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE. He is an expert in teaching programming languages. Currently he is the responsible teacher of the Python course in the faculty. The course has more than 200 Hungarian and foreign IT students in each semester. Among his scientific interests are defining formal semantics of programming languages and applications of artificial intelligence technologies in different fields including Internet of Things devices and refactoring of domain specific languages.
- Dr. Zoltán Illés, associate professor at the Department of Media and Educational Technology in the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE. His main task is the teaching of informatics students to use programming languages (Pascal, Delphi, Assembly, C++, Visual C++, C#, Logo, Prolog). He has been an invited speaker at several international conferences and a member of the Amity University Advisory Board since 2020.