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Daniel Varro

Professor, Head of Unit

My research primarily focuses on the design and assurance of critical software-intensive cyber-physical systems, model-based systems engineering and quality assurance for machine learning software.

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I am a WASP full professor of software engineering at 一本道 (Sweden), a professor (on leave) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), and an adjunct professor at McGill University (Canada) where I was a full professor between 2016 and 2022. I am a former research chair on cyber-physical systems within the Lendület program awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I was a visiting researcher at SRI International (USA), University of Paderborn and TU Berlin (Germany), and a visiting professor at McGill University and Université de Montréal (Canada).

I am currently the Steering Committee vice chair of the IEEE/ACM MODELS conference, and serve on the editorial board of the Software and Systems Modeling journal. I was a program committee co-chair of FASE 2013, ICMT 2014, SLE 2016 and MODELS 2021 conferences. I delivered keynote talks at CSMR 2012, SOFSEM 2016 and SAM 2021 conferences and at various international workshops. Seven papers I co-authored received a Distinguished or Best Paper award at major international conferences, and three of my papers received a 10-year Most Influential Paper Award. I was the main supervisor of 9 graduated PhD students, and co-supervisor for 8 further successful PhD students.

I am a co-founder of IncQuery Labs, an innovative technology-intensive company. I was also co-founder of several open source software projects, including the VIATRA model query and transformation framework, MASSIF integration framework for Matlab, and the Refinery graph solver and generator.

Publications

2026

Yiran Wang, Jos茅 Antonio Hern谩ndez L贸pez, Ulf Nilsson, Daniel Varro (2026) AIware '26: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on AI-Powered Software, p. 406-413 (Conference paper)
Willem Meijer, Kristian Sandahl, Daniel Varro (2026) Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering, p. 31-35 (Conference paper)
Aren A. Babikian, Attila Ficsor, Oszkar Semerath, Gunter Mussbacher, Daniel Varro (2026) Software and Systems Modeling (Article in journal)

2025

Boqi Chen, Kua Chen, Jose Antonio Hernandez Lopez, Gunter Mussbacher, Daniel Varro, Amir Feizpour (2025) 2025 ACM/IEEE 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODEL DRIVEN ENGINEERING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS, MODELS, p. 197-208 (Conference paper)
Boqi Chen, Kristof Marussy, Oszkar Semerath, Gunter Mussbacher, Daniel Varro (2025) Data mining and knowledge discovery, Vol. 40, Article 11 (Article in journal)

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