Imre Szeberényi

During his university studies, he developed a close professional relationship with the Computer Science Group (VSZCS) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK) of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). The group's colleagues – including Gáspár Csík and István Kőrösi – played a decisive role in the development of his professional interests. He learned the basics of programming from István Kőrösi, with whom he was the first to install the UNIX operating system on the Faculty's SZM-4, then TPA 11-440 computer in 1981.

From 1983, as a staff member of the VSZCS, he participated in the teaching of basic programming subjects, in the creation of the related educational infrastructure (a UNIX-based laboratory for programming education), and then in its development. From 1985, he became a lecturer at the Department of Process Control (FSZ – later Control Engineering and Informatics), where, in addition to developing the IT infrastructure supporting education, he participated in the continuous development of IT education and the development of teaching materials. He was one of the developers of the subject topics of the IT major starting in 1986. He played a decisive role in the continuous modernization of programming education and the dissemination of UNIX culture.

His research and development (R&D) topics are related to the application of microprocessors, later to distributed systems, grid and cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC: High-performance Computing) systems. He was the leader or participant of several domestic and international research and development projects. He participated in the development of BME's first e-mail system (1989), in the operation of its first web server (1993), in the design and implementation of the KÖFE/FET software system of the Budapest-Hegyeshalom railway line (1995-98). He is the dreamer of BME's first supercomputer, which was realized under his leadership within the framework of a TÁMOP project (2011-13).

In 2014, with the help of a large team of students, he created the cloud management system called CIRCLE, which initially became the basis of the department's and later the faculty's educational cloud.

From 1998, he performed part of his research and development tasks as an employee of the then-established BME Informatics Center (later the Center for Public Administration Informatics), and then as deputy director. He was a participant or subproject leader in several prominent EU and domestic projects, such as EGEE (2002-2010), which made grid technology suitable for e-science, led by CERN, as well as the Government Cloud and the Government Data Center.

Since 2004, he has been one of the Hungarian representatives of the European organization e-Infrastructure Reflection Group.

Award: Commemorative Plaque for Hungarian Higher Education (Minister of Education, 2002).