Gabor Peceli

After graduating from university, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Instrumentation and Measurement Technology at BME. After working his way up the teaching ladder (adjunct professor, associate professor), he was appointed university professor in 1989. In 1988, he was also appointed head of the successor, the Department of Measurement Technology and Information Systems (MIT).

Between 2003 and 2006, he was the head of the Embedded Systems Research Group, which was established through the cooperation of BME and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In 2005, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) of BME. He was the Rector of BME between 2008 and 2015.
He conducted research with a Széchenyi Professorship between 1997 and 2000 and a Charles Simonyi Fellowship in 2005. In 1986, he went on a study trip to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA).

His research areas are measurement technology, signal processing, within the latter adaptive signal processing systems and cooperative signal processing, as well as embedded information systems in the field of modeling and design.

He defended his university doctoral dissertation in 1979, then his candidate of technical sciences dissertation in 1986, and his academic doctoral dissertation in 1989. He is a member of the Automation and Computer Engineering Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and its chairman between 2000 and 2005. He was a representative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' general assembly between 1997 and 2004, then in 2007 he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2013 a full member. He is also a member of the Electronic Devices and Technologies Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering since 1997. Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1999; Head of the Hungarian Section in 2001–2002. Member of the Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Discipline Committee of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee between 1994 and 2000. Member of the Ányos Jedlik Board of Trustees of the Ministry of Education between 2000 and 2005, and its chairman in 2006. President of the National Association of Hungarian Universities between 2006 and 2012; then honorary chairman from 2025. Member of the Supervisory Board of Infopark Development Co. Ltd. since 2001.

He is the author or co-author of more than 80 scientific publications and has two patents jointly registered with his colleagues. He publishes in Hungarian and English.

Awards: Pollák – Virág Award (Hungarian Association of Communications and Informatics, 1992, 1993); Dénes Gábor Award (Novofer Foundation, 2009); Neumann Award (NJSZT, 2012), Ágoston Trefort Award (Minister of Human Resources, 2015); Széchenyi Award (Hungarian State, 2018).