István Vajk

He has been a full-time lecturer at the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics (AUT) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK) of the Hungarian University of Technology (BME) since 1976. During this time, he has participated in the teaching of almost all subject groups of the department. He played a decisive role in the development of numerous subjects, curricula, and training structures.

From 1994 to 2016 (following Professors Frigyes Csáki and Róbert Tuschák ), he was the head of the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics at BME. During this period, while preserving the traditional subject areas, the department became one of the dominant IT centers of the university and - we can safely say - the country. Under his leadership, the department operated excellent teaching/research departments by international standards in the areas of applied informatics, control theory/technology, power electronics and embedded control systems.
Between 1998 and 2001, he received a Széchenyi Professorship Scholarship.

He received his MTA PhD in 2007; since then he has been a university professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the BME. Between 2012 and 2016, he was the chairman of the Automation and Computer Science Committee of the MTA Department of Engineering Sciences. He led the MTA Control Engineering Academic Research Group affiliated with his department. He actively participated in scientific further education. Under his leadership, many students obtained their PhD degrees.

He is the author or co-author of hundreds of scientific publications. His main research areas are applied informatics, control theory, and system identification. His most important industrial applications are in the fields of electric power, the silicate industry, and intelligent secondary systems in energy distribution networks.

In 1989 he was awarded the gold degree of the Excellent Inventor Award and in 2012 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering.