Education & Qualifications

2001 – St. Stefan Secondary School, Budapest, High School Graduation
2004 – Budapest University of Technology and Economics, DEUG (Diplôme d’Études Universitaires Générales)
2007 – Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Transportation Engineering, Master’s Graduate
2008 – Kőbánya Music Studio – Jazz Music Graduate (jazz trumpet)
2013 – PhD Thesis: Advanced Methods for Measurement and Control in Urban Road Traffic Networks
2023 – Habilitation in Transportation Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
2023 – Doctor of Science (DSc) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, DSc Thesis: Modeling, control, and simulation based testing for automated road traffic

Research Areas

Road traffic modeling and simulation
Road traffic control
ITS solutions
Autonomous vehicles, automated transport (CCAM: Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in transport

Professional Experience

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering, Dept. of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems:
2007 – 2010 – PhD student
2010 – 2013 – Assistant lecturer
2014 – 2018 – Senior lecturer
2019 – 2024 Associate professor
2025- Full professor, Deputy head of department

 

BME ITS Ltd.: 2013-2020 Expert for industrial projects in transportation

Teaching Activity

Courses Actively Taught:
Road Traffic Control (BSc) since 2007
Control (BSc) since 2007
Research Techniques (PhD) since 2017
Design of Transport Automation Systems (MSc) since 2010
Modeling and Control of Vehicle Transportation Systems (MSc) since 2010
Traffic modeling, simulation and control (MSc/PhD, English Master Program) since 2019

 

Formerly Taught Courses:
C/C# Programming (BSc) since 2013-2019
Control Theory (MSc, English Master Program) since 2017-2025

 

 

Awards, honors

2006 – 1st prize on the conference of the Association of Scientific Students in the section of Transportation Development

2007 – Participation on the 28th Conference of the Hungarian Association of Scientific Students (in the section of technological science)

2007 – 2nd prize of diploma thesis competition of Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport

2012 – BME PhD Research Prize in the “Open appearance” category

2013 – Literary award of Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport

2014 – Award for scientific and social activity by the Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport

2015 – “Best 100 Professor” based on the Education Quality Survey of BME

2016 – “The most excellent supervisor” at the Conference of Scientific Association of Students” – a prize of the Pro Progressio Foundation

2017 – Literary award of Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport

2017 – “Best 100 Professor” based on the Education Quality Survey of BME

2019 – 1st prize on the Transport Innovation Competition founded by the National Toll Payment Services Plc. and the Hungarian Scientific Association for Transportation (with the topic of „Wireless and distributed traffic light controller”)

2019 – “Best 100 Professor” based on the Education Quality Survey of BME

2020 – “Excellence in teaching” (award of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering)

2021 – Literary award of Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport

2021 – “Best 100 Professor” based on the Education Quality Survey of BME

2022 – Michelberger Price of Hungarian Academy of Engineering

2023 – BME Jubilee Medal in recognition of outstanding work in education, based on the Student Evaluation of Teaching Work

2023 – Literary award of Hungarian Scientific Association for Transport

2024 – BME publication award

2025 – 3rd place at Traffic Safety Idea Competition, organized by Hungarian Institute for Transport Sciences and Logistics Ltd. and Eötvös Loránd University

Projects, scholarships

2008 – EJJT 1.1 “Modeling and simulation of vehicle transportation systems”

2008 – CONTRA “Modelling and multi-objective optimization based control of road traffic flow considering social and economical aspects” (OTKA CNK78168)

2010-2012 – Research program TÁMOP (421/B) “Intelligent control of road traffic networks” (JKL-P4)

2013-2014 – TÁMOP-4.2.2.C-11/1/KONV-2012-0012 „Smarter Transport”

2013-2014 – NFÜ Travel Dashboard EIT KIC 12-1-2012-0001

2016 – Scholarship for scientific excellence (ÚNKP, New National Program for Excellence)

2016-2019 – MoveCit (Central Europe project, Engaging employers from public bodies in establishing sustainable mobility and mobility planning)

2017-2020 – Linking Danube Transnational Programme

2017-2020 – “Bolyai János” research scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2018-2021 – Electric Travelling (Platform to support the implementation of electromobility in Smart Cities based on ICT applications)

2019 – Scholarship of National Toll Payment Services Plc. to support research about the future use of traffic data coming from the tolling system for road traffic control

2020 – Scholarship of National Toll Payment Services Plc. to carry out traffic simulation research about the future use of traffic data coming from the tolling system for road traffic control

2020 – 2024 – Research leader of the project „Dynamic, adaptive traffic control services and evaluation tools based on digitally connected data sources” (national development and innovation project: 2019-1.1.1-PIACI KFI)

2021-2024 – Research leader of the project „Deep Learning Anticipated Urban Mobility Peaks – DARUMA” (EIG CONCERT-Japan within the Framework of the Strategic International Collaborative Research Program)

2023-2024 – Research leader of the project „Google – BME Traffic Lab research cooperation” (road traffic emission modeling using SUMO traffic simulator and HBEFA emission model to determine optimal speed limits).

Highlighted Publications