András Pataricza

Short CV

Prof. András Pataricza graduated in Electrical Engineering, holds a DSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a Dr-habil. from BUTE. Since 1994 he leads the Fault-Tolerant Systems Research Group of the Department of Measurements and Information Systems. He served twice as a visiting professor at the University of Erlangen and once at the Center of Advanced Security Research Darmstadt in Germany and received multiple recognition awards from different scientific and industrial organizations. Since 2006 he is a visiting professor at the IBM Budapest CAS (Center of Advanced studies). He has acted as the technical leader and advisor to many international scientific projects and EU scientific research programs. He has published over 130 papers in international journals, conferences, and workshops in the field of Dependable Computing, Embedded System and Model-Driven Engineering. He was the general chair of the Annual 43rd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2013), co-chairs of IBM Cloud Academy Conference 2015, IEEE.Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems 2016. He is Steering Committee member of the  IBM ICACON, IEEE SRDS, IEEE DDECS conference series. He received five IBM Faculty Awards.

He serves as the Honorary Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Branch of the National Council of Student Research.

External links: Full CV, Google Scholar

Research Interests

• Dependable systems
  • Safety-critical embedded systems
  • Time-triggered systems
  • High-availability
  • Blockchain
• Data analysis
  • Big Data
  • Data visualization
• Formal methods
  • Application to engineering domains
  • Model-checking
  • Fault analysis
• IT infrastructure
  • Autonomous management
  • Cloud services
  • Service-oriented architecture

Honors and awards

• 2020: Academic Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2019, Honoris Causa Pro Scientia Gold Medal, National Council of Student Research Societies (OTDT)
• 2016: Officers Cross of Hungarian Order of Merit. President of Hungary
• 2012: Honorary Award for tutoring young talents, National Talent Support Council
• 2011: Award of Excellence, Press of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2009: Honorary Silver Medal, National Council of Students Research
• 2006: Kalmár László Award, John von Neumann Computer Society  
• 2003, 2004, 2005, 2013, 2016: IBM Faculty Award, IBM Research
• 2003: HP Professorial Fellowship, HP Hungary
• 2001: Compaq Professorial Fellowship, Compaq Hungary
• 2001: Honorary Medal, Veszprém Regional Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1998: School Founding Master Tutor, National Council of Students Research
• 1998: András Fáy Prize, Fáy Foundation of the Hungarian National Savings Bank
• 1998: Honorary Diploma for Tutoring a "Pro Scientia" Gold Medal Winner, National Council of Student Research
• 1997-2001: Széchenyi Professorship, Minister of Education