Curriculum Vitae

Zoltán László, dr.
Assistant Professor

Degree: University doctor
Room: IB 323
Phone: + 36 1 463 3456
Fax: + 36 1 463 2204
E-mail: laszlo@iit.bme.hu
Date of birth, place: 19th April 1951, Budapest

Education

1977 University doctor
Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Development system for the design of microprogrammed logic network
1975 MSc. in Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Thesis: IBM selector channel for microprocessor system

Languages

Hungarian - native
English - intermediate level, type C, ITK 18479/1994

Positions Held

1976 - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, adjunct professor

Professional Experiences

Teaching:

Digital design (switching theory, combinational and sequential logic): graduate courses, lectures and laboratory practices (in English)
Computer programming: graduate courses, lectures and practices in PASCAL, C, FORTRAN, Java, assembly (Intel, DEC) (in English)
Real time system design methodologies: graduate courses, lectures and case-studies
Objektum oriented development (CORBA): graduate courses, lectures and case-studies (in English)
Software engineering: different graduate and postgraduate courses, lectures on the topic of methodologies and CASE (in English)

Studies

1995 University of Brighton (UK), 3 months, TEMPUS S_JEP 07771-94
1997 University of Westminster, London, (UK), 1 month, TEMPUS S_JEP 08333-94
1999 University of Klagenfurt (A), 1 month, TEMPUS S_JEP12495-97
2000 University of Klagenfurt (A), 1 month, TEMPUS S_JEP12495-97
2002 University of Klagenfurt (A), 1 month, TÉT A-14/01
2003 University of Klagenfurt (A), 1 month, TÉT A-14/01

Scholarships

2001 KPMG professor scholarship
2002-03 HP professor scholarship

Research fields

Software technologies.
Analysis and design of distributed object oriented systems.
Education issues of software engineering.

Computer skills

Languages: C, C++, Java, PASCAL, FORTRAN, Assembly(Intel, DEC, Motorola), UNIFACE
Operating system: DOS, UNIX, WindowsNT
Dev. methods: SA/SD, OMT, UML, Ward & Mellor, SSADM
CASE: Cadre Teamwork, Process Engineer, Software through Pictures, Rational Rose
Databases: SQL

Industrial projects

1976-80 Computer control system for video scoreboard of olympic stadium, Installed system: 1980 Moscow
1980-87 KONTAKTA-BME, Univerzális, moduláris mikroprocesszoros rendszer szoftver komponenseinek konstrukciója
1980-84 Real-time production control systems for food industry (Design and implementation)
1985-87 Digital video processor for videomatrix scoreboards. Installed systems: Cairo, Nairobi
1987-88 2D/3D Tektronix graphic terminal emulation
1989 Proposals for the system structure and software engineering methodology of the safety-critical control system of Nuclear Power Plant Paks
1992 Proposals for the basic concepts and system engineering methodology of the Integrated Information System for Hungarian Police, and opposition of tenders
1992 Control system for lightroof of Casino Innsbruck.
1995-98 Remote control of energy supplying of the Budapest-Hegyeshalom railways line
1997-01 Integrated management information system for the Hungarian higher education

Research projects

1994-97 CUSE: Course Upgrading and Restructuring in Software Engineering TEMPUS S_JEP07771-94
1994-97 Introducing Parallel Processing into the Curriculum of the Hungarian Higher Educational Institutions of Technology TEMPUS S_JEP 08333-94
1997-00 Distributed and Network Computing in the Information Society TEMPUS S_JEP12495-97
2000-01 Virtual Supercomputer Services over the Network of Hungarian Academy of Science, IKTA-NI-2000
2001-02 Mobile Agent in a Distributed Multimedia Database System, Austrian Science Research Liaison Office
2002-03 Java/Corba based resource broker, Austrian-Hungarian research, A-14/01 TÉT
2002-03 Easy Composition in Future Generation Component System, IST-1999-14151
2002-03 Dynamic broker service, IKTA–4 26/2001
2002-03 Hungarian supercomputer GRID, IKTA–4 75/2001

Hungarian patents

1985 8 and/or 16 bits microprocessor based multimicroprocessor equipment for process control application No.:193762 (14%)
1986 Equipment for controlling matrix boards No. 196524 (11%)
1986 Equipment for averaged digitizing of analogous video signals No.:199199 (1%)

Publications

Total number of publications: 58

Awards

1980 Award for excellent performance, donated by the Ministry of Industry
1990 Award for outstanding innovation activity, donated by the Ministry of Education