Dr. Vladimír Székely is a Hungarian

Hungary

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 physicist

Physicist

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, professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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 and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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 .He is also a manager with the Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics

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  Microelectronics Research and Development group.

In April 2010, he won the International Dennis Gabor Award

International Dennis Gabor Award

The International Dennis Gabor Award is awarded by the NOVOFER Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific achievements with practical applications, with a clear positive attitude towards international cooperation of the researchers. It is named after the Nobel Prize...

 for the development of T3Ster technology for thermal testing of semiconductor packaging.

He is a co-founder of MicReD, a company created by researchers of the department of Electron Devices at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, now part of Mentor Graphics. Dr. Szekely led the team of MicReD which developed T3Ster.

He has 70 peer-reviewed papers listed in Web of Science

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