László Vajta

He is a fellow, assistant professor, assistant professor, and then associate professor at the Department of Process Control (later the Department of Control Engineering and Informatics) of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). His areas of expertise are image processing, robotics, and control engineering.
Between 2005 and 2008, he was the Deputy Dean of Economics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) of BME, and then the Dean of the Faculty for eight years, until 2016.
He is the first director of the Center for Higher Education and Industry Cooperation that he organized.

He is the leader of several domestic and international research and industrial projects. He led one of the first domestic mass-produced text editing systems (the KODEX 2000: a target computer whose printer is an electronic typewriter), the first raster graphic display produced on an industrial scale, and participated in the development of the department's modular industrial control microcomputer module system and large-scale result announcement systems, and in their installation in several foreign locations.

Between 1982 and 1992, in addition to his work at BME, he also worked at the University of Karlsruhe, and then at the Forschungszentrum Informatik founded there, as a scholarship holder, visiting researcher, and then visiting professor. In 1996, he was called back to head the Robotics Institute, but he chose BME instead.

As part of his teaching work, he has developed numerous courses, written a large number of diploma projects, awarded Scientific Student Association (TDK) papers, and been a consultant to a dozen doctoral students.
As part of his work as a university organizer, he introduced many innovations, primarily to improve the system of cooperation between industry and university, to accelerate knowledge transfer processes and to develop infrastructure. He is one of the strategic leaders of the development of the BME research university program, and the director of university projects aimed at developing the organizational framework for knowledge transfer.

He also took an active role in industry. He worked as a consultant in the reorganization of several large companies; he participated in the introduction of new products and the training of employees.

Academic award winner. Awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Siemens Zrt. scholarship. Awarded the Excellent Teacher Award. Awarded the Excellent Inventor Award. Member of the IT Business TOP 10 in 2016.