János Sztrik

After graduating, he was a scientific fellow at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of Kossuth Lajos University (KLTE) for two years, then obtained his university doctorate in 1981. In 1989, he defended his candidate of physical and mathematical sciences title at the Faculty of Cybernetics of the Kiev State Shevchenko University, and was appointed associate professor at KLTE from 1992. Between 1990 and 1994, he was a visiting researcher for several months, then a professor, at universities in England and Germany.

Between 1993 and 1996, as a second-term associate professor at the Hungarian University of Applied Sciences, he was the department head of Szerencsejáték Rt. in Debrecen, and then returned to the university full-time.
He obtained his PhD degree in 1997 and habilitation in 2000 at the successor institution of the Hungarian University of Life Sciences, the University of Debrecen (DE).
Under his leadership, the introduction of engineering computer science training at the Faculty of Informatics (IK) of the University of Budapest was successfully implemented at the BSC and MSc levels; he was the developer of numerous training topics in Hungarian and English.
Between 1997-2001 he received the Széchenyi Professorial Scholarship, then between 2001-2003 he received the Széchenyi István Scholarship. In 2002 he became a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Engineering. In 2013 he received the Szentágothai János Experienced Researcher Scholarship (16 months).
In 2004, he was appointed as a university professor at the DE IK. Between 2003-2018, he was the head of the Department of Informatics Systems and Networks, which he founded, and in the meantime (2009-2010) he was the scientific deputy dean of the DE IK. Since 2017, he has been the head of the DE Doctoral School of Informatics Sciences.
Since 2019, he has been a member of the Habilitation Committee and Doctoral Council of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

His research areas include queuing theory, reliability theory, and stochastic modeling of computer and telecommunication systems. He has participated in and led numerous international and domestic projects on these topics.

He regularly participates in the organization of international conferences. He is a member of the program committees of several international organizations; he is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals. He served on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Telecommunications Scientific Committee for several terms.

Honors: "Pro Universitate" (KLTE TTK, 1978); Minister of Culture Commendation (1989); Pollák–Virág Award (Hírkommunikation and Informatics Scientific Association, HTE, 2014, 2015); DE IK Award (DE, 2018).