Miklós Pál Hajnal

From 1967 he was a lecturer and practice leader at the Department of Process Control of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). He participated, among others, in the teaching of the basics of Computer Science, developed and presented the subjects Data Collection and Processing and Robotics. He led a scientific student group entitled Learning Systems.

During his research activities, he dealt with process identification, then with learning systems, shape recognition, image processing, and robotics. For his thesis entitled Computer Image Processing in the Clinic, submitted with collaborators, he was awarded an academic award by the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He worked as a supervisor in several industrially commissioned research and development projects.
He received his university doctorate in 1980. From 1983, he edited and wrote a series of books on behalf of LSI-ATSz entitled Robot Technology. In 1984, his book entitled Programmable Control Systems was published.

From 1986 he continued his activities as a project manager at the Robotics Department of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI). Between 1988 and 1991 he led a project on the development of a continuous visual quality control system mainly applicable in the textile industry. In 1990 he participated in the development of the ISO international robot standard.

In 1991, when the computer science education was launched, he joined the Department of Automation of the University of Veszprém (later Pannon). He developed and presented the subjects Robot Control, Automated Manufacturing and Technical Communication; within the framework of the latter, he established the English-language student conference COIN (Conference on Information Technology). He was involved in the implementation of mechatronics engineering education; he was one of the organizers of the 1994 Joint Hungarian-British International Mechatronics Conference.

In 1995, he earned a distance education specialist diploma from the Central Hungary Regional Distance Education Center.

Since 1994, he has continuously participated in the projects of general convergence and IT research and development programs (PHARE Tempus and ESPRIT) initiated and supported by the European Union. In this regard, he has been on several 3-month scholarship study trips to foreign universities.

In 1997, he founded AdWare Development and Consulting Ltd. Within this framework, he implemented several hundred quality improvement and organizational development projects with collaborators.

Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as a supervisor in the Intelligent Energy Europe PROMETHEUS project. He also participated in the central development of the management of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPTE).

He worked on the modernization of higher education in the Central Education Committee of the Association of Technical and Natural Sciences Associations (MTESZ). Between 1997 and 2000, he worked as a reviewer of research and development applications on behalf of the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB), then MAG Zrt. He participated in the organization and conduct of domestic conferences.

He was a regular speaker at foreign and domestic professional conferences and author and co-author of more than two hundred publications.