Dr. Rudas Tamás
Director-General
Academic qualifications
1978: M. Sc. with honors in mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University
1985: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) in mathematics (probability and statistics) Eötvös Loránd University
1994: Candidate of Mathematical Science (CSc), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2000: Habilitation (Dr Habil) in sociology, Eötvös Loránd University
2003: Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Positions held
Department of Data Analysis, Mass Communication Research Centre, Budapest
1978-1980: Junior Research Fellow
Department of Methodology, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1980-1985: Research Fellow
1985-1990: Senior Lecturer
Statistics Group, Department of Methodology, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1990-1995: Senior Lecturer and Head
1995-1996: Reader and Head
1991-1996: Program Director in Survey Statistics
Center for Applied Statistics, Central European University, Budapest
1996-1998: Associate Professor and Head
1998-1999: Professor of Statistics and Head
Department of Statistics , School of Sociology and Social Policy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1999-2002: Reader and Head
2002-2003: Professor of Statistics and Head
1999-2003 : Director of the School
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
2003-2012 : Professor of Statistics and Head Faculty of Social Sciences
2003-2009: Founding Dean of the Department of Statistics, Institute of Empirical Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
2012-2015 : Head of the Department, Director of the Institute
2012- Professor of Statistics
Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2016 - Director-General
Visiting positions
Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA
August 1989 -May 1990: Visiting Professor
Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo, USA
September 1992 - August 1993: Visiting Professor
Statistics and Pscyhometry Research Division, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA
August 1994 - September 1994: Visiting Scholar
Center for Surveys, Methods and Analyses (ZUMA), Mannheim, Germany
September1995 - October 1995: Guest Professor
Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo, USA
March 1997 - June 1997: Visiting Professor
Institute of Statistics, Technical University of Graz, Austria
October 1999 - January 2000: Visiting Professor
Center for Social Studies, Central European University, Warsaw, Poland
May 2000: Visiting Professor
Center for Social Studies, Central European University, Warsaw, Poland
May 2001 – June 2001: Visiting Professor
Center for Social Studies, Central European University, Warsaw, Poland
May 2002 – June 2002: Visiting Professor
Program in Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany
January, 2003: Visiting Professor
Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
November 2003: Visiting Professor
Center for Social Studies, Warsaw, Poland
June 2004:Visiting Professor
Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana,Slovenia
August 2004: Visiting Professor
Department of Statistics and Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, USA
September 2004-June 2005: Visiting Professor
Center for Social Studies, Warsaw, Poland
July 2005:Visiting Professor
Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
November 2005: Visiting Professor
Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
November 2006: Visiting Professor
Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
December 2007: Visiting Professor
Department of Statistics and Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, USA
March – June 2008: Visiting Professor
Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
December 2008: Visiting Professor
Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
December 2009: Visiting Professor
Doctoral Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 2011: Visiting Professor
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
March 2017: Visiting Professor
International Centre for Mathematial Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland
May 2017: Invited Speaker
Fellowships and short courses taught
Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
May 1986 - July 1986: DAAD-fellow
Department of Theoretical Statistics, Institute of Mathematics, University of Aarhus, Denmark
April 1987 - June 1987: Hungarian-Danish Exchange Programme Fellow
Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
September 1999 - October 1999: Visiting Member
Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforshung, Universitat Koeln, Germany
March 2003: Short course
University of Torino, Italy
January 2004: Short course
University Roma Tre, Italy
January 2009: Short course
Doctoral Program in Statistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 2012, 2013: Short course
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
September 2016: Short course
ECPR, European Consortium for Political Research
August 2017: Seasoned scholar workshop
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
November 2017: short course
Honours
Erdei Prize of the Hungarian Sociological Association for the application of statistical methods in sociology, 1988
Szechenyi Professorship, 2000-2003
Chairman of the Board, TARKI Foundation, 2003-
Vice President, European Association of Methodology, 2008-2012
Affiliate Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of Washington, 2008-
Golden Memorial Medal of the Eötvös Loránd University, 2009
Chairman of the Advisory Board, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2010-2012
Faculty Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, 2010
Elected Fellow, European Academy of Sociology, 2010
Academy Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2011
President, European Association of Methodology, 2012-2014
Angelusz Prize of the Hungarian Sociological Association, 2013
Honorary membership, Slovenian Association of Statistics, 2017
Part time (adjunct) positions
Dept. of Human Genetics, National Institute of Health, Budapest
1985-85: Research Associate
TARKI Social Research Centre, Budapest
1986-88 Research Associate and Head of the Research Group 'Statistical analysis of categorical data'
1989-96 Senior Research Fellow and Head, Dept. of Mathematical Statistics
1996-98 Senior Research Fellow
1998-2011 Academic Director
Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest
1994-96: Recurrent Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science and Statistics
Statistics Group, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1996-99: Reader and Program Director
Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest
1999 - Recurrent Visiting Professor of Statistics
Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
2016- Professor
Selected professional activities
General Secretary, European Association of Methodology (2004-2008)
Directed the research group which developed the DISTAN package for the analysis of discrete data (1986 - 1992)
Directed a research group which developed a microsimulation data base and microsimulation software (1995 -2003 )
Consultant to the law firm Shook, Hardy and Bacon (1999-2004)
Consultant to the Joint Industry Body of the Hungarian tv-channels on audience measurement (1999)
Editorial activities
Member of the Editorial Board: Advances in Methodology and Statistics
Member of the Editorial Board: Methodology - European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Member of the Scientific Committee: Methods of Psychological Research - Online
Member of the Scientific Committee: Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
Member of the Advisory Board: Szociológia
Member of the Advisory Board: Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics
Reviewer
Annals of Statistics
Austrian Science Foundation
Biometrika
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology
Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods),
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
CRC Press
Electronic Journal of Statistics
European Commission, 6th and 7th Framework
Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
Hungarian National Science Foundation
Italian Ministry for Research
Journal of Applied Statistics
Journal of Classification
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods)
Közgazdasági Szemle
Külgazdaság
Magyar Statisztikai Szemle
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability
Methods of Psychological Research
Metodoloski Zvezki
Metrika
NATO Science Programme
Sociological Methodology
Sociological Methods and Research
Springer Publishers
SpringerPlus
Statistical Methodology
Statistics and Computing
Statisztikai Szemle
Szociológia
Test
Transactions of the IEEE
US National Science Foundation
Austrian Science Foundation
European Commission, 6th and 7th Framework
Hungarian National Science Foundation
Italian Ministry for Research
US National Science Foundation
NATO Science Programme
European Commission, 6th and 7th Framework
Springer Publishers
Conference organizations
Co-Director, Budapest Summer School on the Theory and Application of Statistical Models (1991-94)
Co-Organizer or organizer, Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statisticians, (every year from 1998)
Member of the Organizing Committee, Conference on Information Theory, Cryptography and Statistics, Budapest (2001)
Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee and local organizer: 25th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, jointly with the 2nd Conference of the European Association of Methodology, Budapest (2006)
Workshop co-organizer, Data Mining in Official Statistics, SIAM Data Mining Conference, Anaheim (2012)
Invited session organizer:
5th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Köln (2000), Sunbelt Conference, Budapest (2001), 23rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg (2004), 6th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Amsterdam (2004), COMPSTAT, Rome (2006), 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples (2008), CFE-ERCIM, London (2013), CFE-ERCIM, Pisa (2014)
Member of the program committee:
International Conference on Methodology and Statistics, Preddvor (1996), International Conference on Applied Statistics, Preddvor (1997), 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences,Leuwen (1998), Conference on Applied Statistics, Preddvor (1998), Austrian-Slovene-Hungarian Meeting of Young Statisticians, Piran (1998), International Conference on Applied Statistics, Preddvor (1999), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian Meeting of Young Statistician, Pecs (1999), 22nd Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, London (2000), International Conference on Applied Statistics, Preddvor (2000), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian Meeting of Young Statistician, Udine (2000), 5th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Köln, (2000)International Conference on Applied Statistics, Ljubljana (2001), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian Meeting of Young Statistician, Klagenfurt (2001), 23rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg (2002), International Conference on Methodology and Statistics, Ljubljana (2002), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian Meeting of Young Statistician, Piran (2002), International Conference on Methodology and Statistics, Ljubljana (2003), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Balatonföldvár (2003), 24th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, Jena (2004), International Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing in Economics and Finance, St Petersburg (2004), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Rimini (2004), Applied Statistics, Ljubljana (2004), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Segau (2005), Applied Statistics, Ribno (2005), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Opatija (2006), Applied Statistics, Bled (2006), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Piran (2007), Applied Statistics, Ribno (2007), Applied Statistics, Ribno (2008), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Balatonfüred (2008), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Basovizza (2009), 4th European Conference of Methodology, Potsdam (2010), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Vorau (2010), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Rijeka (2011), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Piran (2012), Slovene-Austrian-Hungarian-Italian-Croatian Meeting of Young Statistician, Balatonfured (2013), 7th Conference of the ERCIM, Pisa (2014), COMPSTAT 2016, Oviedo (2016)
Invited and plenary conference presentations
1986, 1990, 1992: Workshop on Graphical Association Models, Wiesbaden.1988: Workshop on Graphical Association Models, Aalborg. 1995: Workshop on the Analysis of Large Data Sets, Oxford; International Conference on Statistics and Methodology, Preddvor. 1996: Workshop on Latent Variable Models, Wiesbaden; Conference on Statistics and Social Science, State College. 1997: Symposion on the Analysis of Categorical Data, Tilburg. 1998: Conference on Statistical Issues in the Social Sciences, Stockholm. 1999: Workshop on Conditional Independence Structures and Graphical Models, Toronto, Seminar on Relating Causal Structure to Conditional Independence Structure, Toronto. 2000: 5th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Köln (two talks), Research Kitchen on Learning Graphical Models, Trest, 2001: Microsimulation Methodology, Budapest, 2002: International Conference on Methodology and Statistics, Ljubljana, 2004: 24th Biannual Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences Jena, : 6th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Amsterdam, 2006: COMPSTAT, Rome, 2007: HUNNET IV, Budapest, 2012: Algebraic Statistics in Europe, Vienna, Conference on the 10th Anniversary of the Statistics Graduate Program, University of Ljubljana, 2014: 6th European Congress of Methodology, Utrecht, 2015: 8th International Workshop on Simulation, Vienna, 14th Congress on the Methodology of the Social Sciences, Palma de Mallorca, World Statistics Day Workshop, Budapest (2015), 2016: Graduate Workshop, University of Ljubljana, Cost Action Workshop, Paris, COMPSTAT, Oviedo, CESS Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders, Budapest, 2017: Cost Action Workshop, Amsterdam, 3rd SaW Collaborative Workshop, Lisbon, Földi sokaságok, égi tünemények – A statisztika a tudományok világában konferencia, KSH, Budapest, 10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on CMStatistics, London
Contributed conference presentations
1984: Colloquium on Goodness-of-fit, Debrecen; COMPSTAT 84, Prague. 1985:Session of the International Statistical Institute, 1986: COMPSTAT 86,Rome; World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, Tashkent. 1987: European Meeting of Statisticians, Thessaloniki; Satellite Meeting of the EMS,Thessaloniki.1988: International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Dubrovnik; European Meeting of Statisticians, Berlin. 1989: International Workshop on Social Science Methodology, Ruegen. 1989: SoftStat 89, Heidelberg; CASOR, Dresden*. 1990: COMPSTAT 90, Dubrovnik; International Conference of the Biometric Societey, Budapest. 1991: Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Utrecht; International Conference of the Psychometric Society, Trier. 1992 International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Trento. 1993: Conference on the Analysis of Categorical Longitudinal Data, State College. 1994: World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Bielefeld. 1995: International Conference on the Visualisation of Categorical Data, Köln; Workshop on Mixture Models, Aussois; H. A. David Conference, Ames. 1996 European Conference on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, Rebild. 1997: International Conference on Statistical Analysis Based on the L1 Norm, Neuchatel; International Conference on Applied Statistics, Preddvor. 1998: Conference on Network Analysis, Barcelona*; 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, Leuven; 13th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling, New Orleans; Workshop on Microsimulation Methodology, Cambridge*; Prague Stochastics 98, Prague; Workshop on Structural Learning in Graphical Models, Tirano; Conference of the Society for Economic Modelling, Matrafured*. 1999: Large Scale Data Analysis, Köln, International Conference on Applied Statistics, Preddvor*, HUSITA*, Budapest. 2000: ; 22nd Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, London; 8th Zittau Fuzzy Colloquium, Zittau*, 4th Conference on Distributions with Given Marginals and Statistical Modeling, Barcelolna*; 5th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Köln* (two talks), Conference Foundations and Aplications of Statistics, Jerusalem*. 2001: 16th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling, Odense*, Conference of the Psychometric Society, Osaka*, International Symposium on Information Theory, Washington* International Conference on Applied Statistics, Ljubljana, 2002: 23rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg, 2003:Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, International Conference on Robust Statistics, Antwerp*, 2004: 6th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Amsterdam, International Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing in Economics and Finance, St Petersburg* , 2006: Statistical Latent Variable Models in the Health Sciences, Perugia , 25th Biannual Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences , Budapest, 2008: 26th Biannual Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences , Oviedo, 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples, 2009: Conference of the European Survey Association, Warsaw, 2010: 4th European Conference of Methodology, Potsdam, Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver*, 180th Session of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2011: Spring Methodology Conference, American Sociological Association, Tilburg, 4th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics, London, 2012: Workshop on Data Mining in Official Statistics, SIAM Data Mining Cinference, Anaheim, Algebraic Statistics int he Alleghenies, State College*, 6th European Conference on Methodology, Santiago de Compostela, 2013: New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, UK Meeting on Causal Inference, Manchester, Journees de Statistique, Toulouse, 29th European Meeting of Statisticians, Budapest (3 presentations*), 6th International Conference of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, London (2 presentations*), 2014: Workshop on Algebraic Statistics, Chicago*, Workshop on Algebraic Statistics, Prague, 7th Conference of the ERCIM, Pisa (3 presentations*), 2015: 8th Conference of the ERCIM, London, 2016: 7th Conference of the European Association of Methodology, Palma
(*: talk presented by co-author)
Colloquia presentations
1987: University of Wiesbaden. 1988: University of California at Los Angeles, Iowa State University, University of Madison, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania State University, Educational Testing Service. 1993:University of Michigan, Iowa State University, University of Iowa. 1994: University of Toledo, Pennsylvania State University, Educational Testing Service, Hershey Medical Center, University of Delaware. 1995: Center for Surveys and Methods (ZUMA), University of Toledo, University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, University of Iowa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1996: Center for Surveys and Methods (ZUMA), University of Tilburg, University of Essex. 1997: University of Ljubljana, Gallup Research Center and University of Nebraska. 2000: University of Graz, London School of Economics. 2001: University of Perugia (two talks), University of Roma Tre, 2004: Technical University of Turin, University of Eindhoven, University of Washington, 2005: University of Washington (two talks), 2007: University of Ljubljana. 2008: University of Washington. 2010: University of Maryland, University of Nebraska, University of Washington, New York University, 2011: University of Szeged, University of Utrecht. 2012: University of Washington, University of Ottawa, New York University. 2014: University of Washington. 2016: New York University. 2016: Columbia University. 2016: University of Washington
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