Dr. Péter Biró, Associate Professor of Corvinus, Receives State Award
On Tuesday, August 19, at the Pesti Vigadó, Balázs Hankó, Minister of Culture and Innovation, handed out state awards and artistic honours granted on the occasion of the August 20th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian state, together with the ministry’s secretaries of state, Veronika Varga-Bajusz and Magdolna Závogyán.
At the ceremony, Dr. Péter Biró, mathematician and economist, Associate Professor at the Institute of Operations and Decision Sciences at Corvinus University of Budapest, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of the HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Civil Division, in recognition of his outstanding contributions.
Dr. Péter Biró graduated as a mathematician from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (2003) and received his PhD in mathematics and computer science from the same institute (2007). In the meantime, he studied economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest, where he specialised in EU studies (2007), and where he is teaching operations research at the Department of Operations Research and Actuarial Sciences since 2013.
His research interest lies in the fields of cooperative game theory, algorithmic mechanism design, and matching theory in particular. Before joining the game theory research group of the Institute of Economics in October 2010, he worked as a postdoc researcher at the University of Glasgow for three and a half years from 2007. He was a visiting professor at the Economics Department in Stanford University for a year in 2014, invited by Al Roth. In July 2016, he started a research group on Mechanism Design, sponsored by the Momentum Grant of the Academy. Besides the theoretical research, he has been involved in several applications, such as the UK kidney exchange program, the Scottish resident allocation scheme, and the Hungarian higher education matching scheme.
We congratulate him on this recognition and wish him continued success in his work!