Péter Gáspár

He has been working as a researcher at the Systems and Control Theory Laboratory of the Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) since 1990, as a research professor since 2016, and as a research laboratory leader since 2018. Since 2013, he has been a university professor at BME, head of the Department of Transportation and Vehicle Control.
He received his PhD degree in 1997 and his MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) doctorate in 2007. He has been a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2022.

His most important achievements are in the field of automotive research, based on the general principles and methodology of systems and control theory. His main research areas are the development of integrated and coordinated control based on distributed control design principles; and the coordination of model and data-based methods (with linear variable parameter methods and machine learning methodologies). His industrially motivated interests include mechanical systems, vehicle structures and vehicle control.

He has led several domestic and international scientific research projects. He is the professional leader of the National Laboratory for Autonomous Systems, which aims to provide efficient and innovative solutions to mobility-related research tasks. He has played a leading role in joint projects with industrial companies in the development of energy-efficient technologies and partially automated vehicle platforms.

He has summarized his new research results on control design and driver-assisted vehicle control in 5 monographs written with co-authors. He is the co-author of 7 additional university textbooks, which are used by students at various levels of education. He is the head of the Kandó Kálmán Doctoral School of BME. He was the professional leader of the introduction of the Autonomous Vehicle Control Engineering MSc program.

He is involved in several committees. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Automation and Computer Science Scientific Committee; the Transportation and Vehicle Science Committee; and since 2019, the Steering Committee of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network. He is the chairman of the Hungarian National Organizing Committee of the international organization IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control). He also participates in the editorial boards of several international journals. He is a member of the Bolyai Scholarship expert board and an alternate member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Doctoral Council.

For his scientific and educational work, he received the Bólyai Plaque in 2008. In 2014, he won the Academic Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His work was also recognized with the Albert Szent-Györgyi and the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit awards (2020, 2021).