András Pataricza

In 1994, he founded the Fault Tolerant Systems Research Group of the Department of Measurement Engineering and Information Systems (MIT) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK) of the Budapest University of Technology (BME); after name changes, it is now the Critical Systems Research Group of the Department of Artificial Intelligence and System Design. He is an emeritus professor of the department.
Between 1997 and 2001, he received the Széchenyi Professorship, in 2001 he received the Compaq Hungary Compaq Professorship, and in 2003 he received the HP Hungary HP Professorship.
He is an emeritus member of the Doctoral School of Informatics at BME. He is a full external member of the habilitation committees of the Doctoral Schools of Informatics at the University of Szeged (SZTE) and Multidisciplinary Engineering at Széchenyi University (SzE).

He taught as a visiting professor twice at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, once at the University of Darmstadt, and twice at the University of Florence.

He obtained his habilitation doctoral degree at the Budapest University of Technology (BME); he obtained his candidate degree in 1989, while he defended his MTA doctoral dissertation in 2008.

In 2006, he was co-founder and associate professor of the IBM Budapest CAS (Center of Advanced Studies) research coordination unit. He has participated in numerous international and EU research projects and programs as a supervisor or principal investigator.

He has published approximately 200 papers in prestigious international journals, conferences, and workshops - both in the areas of high-reliability systems and model-driven development.

In 2013, he was elected as the President of the 43rd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2013). In 2014, he was elected as a member of WG10.4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
He was a member of the board of the National Scientific Student Council (OTDT) for 10 years, and also the chairman of the Informatics Professional Committee for 10 years; after that, he was a permanent guest of the former and the honorary chairman of the latter. He is a member of the Computer Engineering and Automation Professional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

His areas of expertise: fault-tolerant/reliable systems, intelligent data analysis, formal methods, modeling, blockchain technologies, IT structures.
With his leadership, his students regularly achieve medal positions at the National Scientific Student Conferences (OTDK).

Awards: Certificate of Recognition "Pro Scientia" for mentoring a Medalist student (OTDK Council, 1998); Master Teacher Gold Medal (OTDT, 1998); VEAB Memorial Medal (MTA Veszprém Regional Committee, 2001); IBM Faculty Award (IBM Research, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2013, 2016); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 2006); Silver Memorial Medal (OTDT, 2009); Excellence Award (MTA Publishing House, 2011); Lifetime Achievement Award for Talent Service (National Talent Support Council, 2012); Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2016); Honoris Causa Pro Scientia Gold Medal (OTDT, 2019); Academic Award (MTA, 2020); Pro Facultate Award (BME VIK, 2022); József Nádor Memorial Award (BME, 2024).