Péter Arató

In 1965, he was appointed assistant professor and then assistant professor at the Department of Process Control at the Budapest University of Technology (BME). In 1977, he was appointed associate professor; in 1986, he was appointed university professor. From 1988, he was also appointed head of the department (later named the Department of Control Engineering and Informatics); he headed it until 2007. In the meantime, between 1986-1988, he was the scientific deputy dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) of the BME; then between 2001-2006, he was its dean. In 1998, he became director of the BME Informatics Center until 2001.
Between 1990 and 1991 he was an invited visiting professor at the University of Karlsruhe.

He successfully utilizes his scientific research results and industrial applications in his subject areas (digital technology, logic synthesis, control unit design, high-level and system-level synthesis) in his university curriculum development and educational work, as well as in the framework of scientific student circles and doctoral training. He is the author or co-author of more than 110 scientific publications.

He defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of technical sciences in 1975; his thesis for the academic doctorate in 1985. In 2001 he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2007 a full member. In addition to his academic positions, he was a founding member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineers. Between 1996 and 1999 he was the chairman of the Hungarian national committee of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He was the vice-chairman of the Hungarian National Committee of the Hungarian Society of Engineers between 2001 and 2005.

His awards: Excellence Award (from the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association, 1988); Outstanding Inventor (1990); Frigyes Csáki Award (2002); Károly Simonyi Award (2008); Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2011); Széchenyi Award (2012).