Laszlo Jereb

After graduating from university, he remained at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). His research field initially focused on the reliability modeling and analysis of telecommunications and computer equipment, and then, from 1980, on the multi-layer, technology-independent modeling, design and performance analysis of networks. The reliability results were used, among others, at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant (PAV), the Mechanical Measuring Instruments Factory (MMG), the Videoton Electronics Company and in space telecommunications (in the reliability analysis of the Pille unit), while the network design contributions were continuously used by Magyar Telekom and its legal predecessors in domestic network developments. He was awarded a candidate's degree in 1984 for his achievements in reliability, and a doctorate in 2004 for his achievements in network design.

He received the Széchenyi Professorial Scholarship from 1997 to 2001. In 2002, he launched the economic informatics training program at the University of West Hungary (NYME) with the support of BME. He was the director of the Institute of Informatics and Economics and the dean of the Faculty of Wood Industry Engineering from 2008 to 2013.
Since 2017, he has been a professor emeritus at the University of Sopron (SoE), the legal successor of NYME, and at BME.
At BME, he is the professional coordinator of several domestic and international projects, including EIT Digital, which is affiliated with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

He worked as a visiting researcher in Italy (Politecnico di Torino) for 3 and 6 months in 1988 and 1994, and in the United Kingdom (Bradford University) for 3 months in 1998. As a visiting lecturer, he taught two MSc courses in Dallas in 2001 and one PhD course in Trento in 2002.

Between 1999-2002, he was the chairman of the Telecommunications Engineering Qualification Committee (TMMB), between 2003-2004, the Informatics and Information Technology Expert Committee (IHSZB), between 2005-2007, the Electrical Engineering-Electronics Jury of the National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), and then between 2017-2018, the Infocommunications Expert Committee of the Informatics and Information Technology Scientific Association (HTE).

His awards: Tivadar Puskás Award (HTE, 1995, 2007); László Kozma Award (Minister of Information Technology and Communications, 2005); IBM Faculty Award (2007, 2009); Ipolyi Arnold Award (OTKA, 2008); Dénes Gábor Award (Novofer Foundation, 2011); Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2013); County Prima Award (Győr-Moson-Sopron County, 2013); Lifetime Achievement Award (HTE, 2019).