Károly Kondorosi

From 1969, he was a member of the Department of Process Control at the Budapest University of Technology (BME), and then its successor, the Department of Control Engineering and Informatics.
He defended his doctoral thesis in 1979 and received his PhD degree in Informatics in 1997. From 1988 to 2011, he led the Department's Software Group - from 2007 to 2011, as Deputy Head of Department.
He has been the chairman of the engineering and information technology training committee since 2008. He has been a volunteer worker since 2013. He has been an honorary university professor since 2014.

In the first period of his career, he dealt with the development of systems requiring both hardware and software development. The most important stages of this period were: the development and application of a computerized measurement system for hardware units to test peripherals connected to the ESZR channel (1970-1973); management of the software development of one of the first domestic computerized control systems (Brotherhood gas pipeline) (1973-1978); the world-first computerized matrix board control system prepared for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and then the professional management of the development of the next-generation digital video processor controlling the color matrix boards of Elektroimpex Rt. (1975-1989).

In 1996-1997, as a ministerial commissioner at the Ministry of the Interior, he managed the development of the unified personal document system and the IT strategy of the Ministry of the Interior.

Between 2000-2003 he received the Széchenyi Professorial Scholarship and in 2004 the HP Professorial Scholarship. Between 2005-2010 he was one of the developers of the research program of the BME Information Technology Innovation and Knowledge Center and the deputy scientific director of the center. Between 2008-2011 he was one of the founders and board member of NESSI Hungary (NESSI: Networked European Software and Services Initiative), head of the Interoperability working group, and manager of the development of the strategic research plan.

He was a significant player in the launch and continuous development of the independent technical informatics (later engineering informatics) training program at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) of BME.

Honors: Bronze Medal of the Order of Merit for Labor (1980); Pro Facultate Award (BME VIK 2014), Neumann Award (NJSZT, 2017).