István Molnar

He graduated from the predecessor of the Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE) in 1976. After graduating from the university, he participated as a researcher at the Central Service Development Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry in the development of the first sectoral computer systems. From 1974, he taught and researched at the Department of Computer Science at BCE (full-time between 1988 and 1998).

Between 1978 and 1987, he worked at the Database and Mathematical Modeling Department of the State Administration Computer Service (ÁSZSZ) and then at the Computer Science and Economics Department of the Central Statistical Office (KSH), where he dealt with the development, use and education of computer simulation.

In 1982-83 he conducted research and taught at the universities of Darmstadt, and in 1989-91 at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Passau.
In the early 1980s, he became familiar with the methodology of microsimulation, initiated its domestic use, and then participated in the creation of the first Hungarian microsimulator. In the second half of the 1980s, he worked on the development and software integration of evolutionary algorithms for solving global optimization problems arising during combined simulation.
Between 1994 and 1996, he was a visiting professor at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, where he collaborated with the Hagen Distance Education University in the field of educational applications of informatics.

Between 1996 and 1998, as the head of the Informatics Subject Group of the General College of Entrepreneurship, he supervised the development of a four-semester Informatics curriculum.
In 1997, he founded the BKE Technology Transfer Center as part of an international project to standardize and renew simulation education, and became its first director.
Between 1997 and 1998, he was the director of the Institute of Informatics at the College of Tourism and Commerce.

He was a visiting professor at the Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, School of Business, George Washington University (Washington DC, USA) from 1998 to 2000 and from 2012 to 2013, and at Sultan Qaboos University (Muscat, Oman) from 2000 to 2002. From 2002, he was a tenured associate professor at the Department of Computer and Information Systems, School of Business, University of Pennsylvania System, Bloomsburg (PASSHE BU, USA) for ten years.

He received his doctorate in computer science in 1979; he became a candidate of economic sciences in 1996. Since 2012 he has been a habilitated doctor of computer science (BCE).

His research topics include simulation, computer-aided learning, and the use of new information technologies in business and economics. He has published approximately 90 papers in refereed national and international journals and conference proceedings.

He was a member of several international professional organizations, organizing and program committees of international conferences, and editorial boards of journals and book publishers.