Zoltán Micskei

He is an associate professor at the Department of Measurement Engineering and Information Systems (MIT) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), where he obtained his PhD degree in 2013. Since 2019, he has led the Critical Systems Research Group.

His main research area is software testing, including model- and code-based test generation. His goal is to develop innovative tools and methods that can be used in practice. Together with his students, he has developed several tools to support testing.

He was a visiting researcher at the LAAS-CNRS research institute in Toulouse for a total of six months between 2006 and 2007.

He is the project leader of the Horizon 2020 ADVANCE and ITEA3 EMBrACE international R&D projects (see below).

In 2019, he was the co-chair of the DISC'19 conference (International Symposium on Distributed Computing). He is a regular member of the program committee of conferences (e.g. ER, ICTSS, HASE), and an external reviewer for journals.

He has published his results in leading international journals in software testing and model-based design. One of his publications won the 10-Year Most Influential Regular Paper award from the Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) journal in 2021. He is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Honors: Outstanding Young Lecturer of the Faculty (BME VIK, 2016); Dean's Commendation for Excellent Teaching Work (BME VIK, 2014), Outstanding Young Lecturer of the Department (BME VIK MIT, 2011, 2012); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 2021).