Daniel Varró

He began his teaching and research work at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2003, was appointed assistant professor in 2005, and associate professor in 2009. He has been a professor at BME since 2014, and at McGill University in Canada since 2016.
He received his PhD degree from BME in 2004, habilitated in 2009, and has been a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the field of Informatics since 2013. Between 2015 and 2020, he was the leader of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences-BME Lendület Cyberphysical Systems research group.
He was a visiting professor at the Université de Montréal in Canada and a visiting researcher at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

His research interests lie at the interface of software sciences, safety-critical cyber-physical systems, and artificial intelligence. He is the founder of the VIATRA open source software project and the supervisor of domestic and international research and development projects.

He is the co-author of over 200 scientific publications (with over 8,000 citations). He has received three 10-Year Most Influential Paper awards and seven Best Paper Awards at prestigious international conferences. He has given invited lectures at numerous international forums and summer schools.

He is the co-chair of the program committees of the international conferences FASE 2013 (Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering), ICMT 2014 (Int. Conf. on Model Transformation), SLE 2016 (ACM SIGPLAN Int. Conf. on Software Language Engineering) and MODELS 2021 (IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems); he has also participated in the program committees of more than 100 international conferences; he is the general chair of the STAF 2013, AGTIVE 2011 and ETAPS 2008 conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Software and Systems Modeling, published by Springer.

He participated in the work of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Informatics Committee as an elected member for several terms. He was the vice president of the National Society of Information Technology (NJSZT) between 2009 and 2015. IEEE Senior Member from 2022. He was a co-founder of IncQuery Labs and the innovative SME OptXware, and has helped several start-ups in Hungary and Canada as a consultant.

His successful talent development work was recognized with the OTDT Master Teacher Gold Medal in 2009 and the Imreh Csanád Memorial Medal in 2017. He has won the Bolyai Scholarship twice; in 2003 he received the János Kemény Award.