Peter Hanak

From 1969 to 2011, he was a lecturer, researcher, and developer at three departments of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).
At BME, he initially taught electrical measurement technology and electronics, later digital technology, then software technology and programming in various “exotic” languages (ELAN, CDL, SML, Haskell, Hume, Erlang, etc.). He was the initiator and for two decades the subject responsible for the course Programming Paradigms, later Declarative Programming (together with Péter Szeredi ); within this, he taught functional programming. Since 2009, he has been the faculty responsible for the computer science-informatics subject group in the healthcare organization undergraduate program of Semmelweis University (SE) run by BME.

In the meantime, between 1997 and 2006, he worked at the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB) and its successors as the subject manager for applications and projects on the topic of Information and Communication Technology Applications (IKTA); he was a member of the inter-ministerial committees on IT. He represented Hungary in certain professional bodies of the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

He utilized his domestic and international public service experience when he returned to BME and became the initiator, participant, and leader of several domestic and international projects from 2006. Between 2007 and 2015, he was the founding director and then president of the BME Health Industry (at the time of its establishment, Health) Engineering Knowledge Center (BME EMT).

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Technology (NJSZT) from the mid-1970s, then a member of the youth committee, the PDP users' circle, the competition committee, the Embedded and Ambient Systems Innovation Workshop (BeAm-IM department), and then a leader. He was the vice-president of the National Academy of Sciences and Technology (NJSZT) for a total of three terms (from 1990, 1995 and 2007). Since 2010, he has been involved in the work of the Biomedical Department of the National Academy of Sciences and Technology (NJSZT).
From 1985 for twenty years, he was one of the main organizers of domestic and international high school computer science competitions, including the 8th International Student Olympiad in Informatics in 1996.

In 2007, he was the editor of the so-called eVITA study on lifestyle-enhancing infocommunication technologies and applications, prepared within the framework of the GKM (Ministry of Economy and Transport). In 2008, he was the main organizer of the eVITA Conference and Exhibition in Budapest. Between 2008 and 2015, he was one of the leaders of the eVITA National Technology Platform, which supports developments that improve the quality of life. Between 2010 and 2012, he was a member of the Association for Therapeutic Cooperation in Healthcare and the Hungarian Health Communication Associations.

Awards: Minister of Culture Commendation (1988); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 1986); BME Rector's Commendation (1993); Small Cross of the Hungarian Republic (1997); Fényes Elek Award (Prime Minister, 1998); Lifetime Achievement Award (NJSZT, 2020).