Meet the editors

Tamás Bányai received a master's degree in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1999, both from the University of Miskolc, Hungary, where he is currently a full-time professor. He has 30 years of teaching and research experience in the design and control of materials handling systems and supply chain management, with special emphasis on heuristic optimization of large-scale systems. He has published more than 200 research papers, book chapters,

and conference proceedings. He has been a member and manager of more than fifty national and international R&D projects. Away from academia, Prof. Bányai's other interests include playing the piano and taking photographs.

Péter Veres received a master's degree as a Logistics Engineer and a Mining- and Geotechnical Engineer in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Miskolc, Hungary, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a senior lecturer at the same university. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in the optimization of logistic systems in warehousing and layout design using heuristic optimization

and simulation. He has published fifty research papers, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has participated in more than ten mainly industrial R&D works supplemented by a few international R&D projects. Currently, one of his primary research interests is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) systems into logistics. Outside of academic life, Dr. Veres likes to play and create board games and goes mineral collecting in the mountains.
