Charaf Hassan

He has lived in Hungary since 1986. He obtained his PhD degree from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 1998; he habilitated in 2014. He received a János Bolyai research scholarship between 1998-2001 and a Pannon GSM professorship scholarship between 2000-2002. He defended his MTA doctoral dissertation in 2017.

He works as a university professor at the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics (AUT) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) of BME, where he is the head of the department. He is the developer of several new IT subjects and research topics that provide existential foundations for students. He was the first to implement the introduction of mobile software development into education. He has been gradually building his R&D group for more than 20 years. He was the dean of VIK from 2019. He will be the rector of BME from 2024.

By 2018, he had consulted more than 200 diploma theses, dozens of his students had successfully participated in scientific student conferences (TDK), and 11 PhD students had obtained scientific degrees under his supervision. In 2004 and 2005, he was a preparatory teacher for the first prize winners of the IBM 48-hour programming competition.

He has gained an international reputation in the field of mobile application development; he is also a shaper of meaningful and mutually beneficial cooperation between industry and higher education, and a committed representative of development-oriented and student-centered IT education.

It maintains excellent relations with numerous industrial partners and professional organizations, through which more than 100 successful collaborations and joint projects have been established between BME and the IT industry. In February 2014, its R&D group organized the MOBIL AUT 2014 conference (the number of registered participants exceeded 530, and the number of participating companies exceeded 200). It maintains similarly excellent relations with numerous foreign universities, research institutions (Dresden, Aalborg, Aalto, Tampere, Oulu, USA: MIT) and industrial players. On its initiative, a Dual PhD program was established between Aalborg University and BME VIK; a similar program is being prepared with the Dresden University of Technology. It is a regularly invited speaker or organizer of conferences and events dealing with the future of domestic IT, as well as international professional events.

His research areas: distributed systems, software development, mobile platforms, multiplatform application development methods, artificial intelligence.

His awards: "TDK for work" teaching plaque (BME, 1999); Master Teacher Award (National TDK, 2001); Informatics Instructor of the Year (Hungarian Association of Leading Informatics Professionals, 2003); IBM Faculty Award (2004, 2008, 2012); ICT Opinion Shaper Award (IT-Business, 2009); Pro Juventute Universitas (BME, 2011); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 2012); Outstanding Faculty Instructor (BME VIK, 2012); Silver Badge (Communications and Informatics Scientific Association, 2012); Dénes Gábor Award (Novofer Foundation, 2015).