János Sztipanovits

Between 1970 and 1983, he worked at the Department of Instrumentation and Measurement Technology (MMT) of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). He obtained his PhD in 1980. In 1982, he was awarded the Ring of the People's Republic by the President. His professional activities in Hungary focused on the development of signal and system measurement technology and modular microprocessor technology. In recognition of the widespread industrial spread of this technology, he and his colleagues received the State Prize in 1985.

He joined the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 1993. In 1998, he was the founding director of the university's Software Integrated Systems Institute. His research interests focus on model-based development of software systems, Model Integrated Computing (MIC), and the theoretical foundations and applications of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). He has published more than 350 papers in these fields.

From 1999 to 2002, he was a program manager and deputy director of the Information Technology Division at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the U.S. government. During this time, he initiated two national research programs in the areas of model-based design of embedded systems and networked embedded systems technology. He continued to manage and develop these programs after returning to his university in Nashville.
He was a member of the U.S. Air Force's Scientific Advisory Board from 2006 to 2010.

In 2010, he was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary, and in 2001, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the USA. He considers the development of Hungarian-American scientific relations to be a matter of the heart.

He has received several awards both in Hungary and in the United States, including: Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 1982); State Award (Hungarian State, 1985); E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor award (2001); the highest civilian award of the United States Department of War (2002); the second highest civilian award of the US Air Force (2010); Neumann Plaque (NJSZT, 2011); Joe B. Wyatt University Distinguished Professor (2012, 2013); János Neumann Professorship (BME + NJSZT, 2018).