AIT-BUDAPEST - Key Persons
Professors Ran Libeskind-Hadas and Michael Orrison are serving as the North American Co-Directors (NACD) of the program.
Interacting with faculty and staff of current and potential partner institutions,
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- Professor, Harvard University Northeastern University Director of the Center for Complex Network Research External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Andrea Szabó (born in 1969) works as an executive, team and career coach, and as a Gestalt Therapist. She holds an M.A. degree (Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest), a degree in Human Resources Management (Central European University), and a Degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy (Norwegian Gestalt Institute). She has a certification in individual and team coaching, and a license in career coaching (Accredited by the Association of Coaching, London, UK). Andrea has held various managerial positions for 15 years before becoming a coach in 2008. She has worked as a Managing Partner for the largest Hungarian Executive Search firm, Telkes Consulting Inc, and as the HR Director Worldwide for Graphisoft. She has a professional international background, having worked on projects e.g. in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Germany, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland.
Anna Belinszky is a Junior Reseach Fellow and PhD candidate in musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. Her research examines intersections of music, politics and aesthetics in the 19th century and specifically in the work of Johannes Brahms. Since 2016 she has been lecturing at the Liszt Academy on 19th and 20th century music history. Besides her studies and teaching activities she has been working as a music journalist and program annotator for various Hungarian cultural institutions. She also graduated as a psychologist from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Anna Gács is a critic and translator. She studied literature and art theory. Her research interests include contemporary literature, digitalisation and literary culture, literary and media theory, and contemporary autobiographic culture. She is an associate professor at the Department for Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 1999-2000 she was the Hungarian lector at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College of London. From 2015 to 2018 she was the president of Szépírók Társasága (Hungarian Society of Writers, Critics and Literary Translators). In 2015 she won the Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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- Senior Software Engineer at Graphisoft SE
Attila Kárpáti (born 1995) is a senior software engineer at Graphisoft SE and PhD researcher at the Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has been teaching computer graphics, GPU programming, and game development since 2017 and published several papers in prestigious international conferences, with subjects including: real-time simulation of interactions between porous bodies and fluids, AI-assisted surface reconstruction of metaball surfaces, controlling characters made of liquid substances, and applications of natural language models in teaching.
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- Head of Department of Combinatorics and Its Applications at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Balázs Patkós (born 1978) is head of Department of Combinatorics and its Applications at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his MSc degree at Eötvös University, Budapest in 2003 and his PhD at Central European University in 2008. After a 3-semester postdoc position at the University of Memphis, he returned to Hungary in 2010. He has been teaching introductory courses in several areas of mathematics at several universities (Eötvös University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Central European University, McDaniel College) both in English and in Hungarian. He has been awarded the Youth Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and several research fellowships by the Academy and the Hungarian National Scientific Fund. His Erdős number is 2.
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- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at Williams College
Brent Heeringa is an associate professor of computer science at Williams College where he has been since 2006. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2006. His graduate work focused on models and algorithms for improving access to organized information with applications to web site design and optimal decision making. During the final year of his graduate studies, Brent helped several other computer scientists start Cogo Labs (formerly Adverplex)---a company dealing primarily with pay-per-click advertising. In 2009 Brent was a visiting scholar at Boston University where, with colleagues from BU and Harvard, he worked on combinatorial problems related to heaps. Brent's current research focus is on data structures, non-traditional data encodings, and information visualization.
Bálint Gyires-Tóth conducts research on fundamental and applied machine learning since 2007. With his leadership, the first Hungarian hidden Markov-model based Text-To-Speech (TTS) system was introduced in 2008. He obtained his PhD degree from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics with summa cum laude in January 2014. Since then, his primary research field is deep learning. His main research interests are sequential data modeling with deep learning and deep reinforcement learning. He also participates in applied deep learning projects, like time series classification and forecast, image and audio classification and natural language processing. He was involved in various successful research and industrial projects. In 2017 he was certified as NVidia Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Instructor and University Ambassador.
Dominika Szabó is an associate professor at the liberal arts college of McDaniel College Budapest, and is a communications expert. As a storytelling and communications trainer, she designs and facilitates trainings and workshops focusing on business development, branding and communication purposes. She mentors startups even from an early stage, helping them develop entrepreneurship skills and build effective communication strategies. She started to teach at AIT in 2022, she has been teaching courses in AIT' Leadership and Entrepreneurship Studies.
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- Director of Student Services
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- Academic Director
- Program Director of the Aquincum Institute of Technology
András Recski (born 1948), program director of the Aquincum Institute of Technology, professor emeritus of mathematics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he served as the head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics for 21 years. He is also part time professor of computer science at the L. Eötvös University of Budapest. As a visiting professor he taught at Yale, Cornell, and at several universities in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and Turkey. He was the John von Neumann-Professor of the Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft at the University of Bonn in 1999. He serves in the editorial board of several mathematics journals. His major research area is matroid theory and combinatorial optimization, with applications in electric engineering and in statics. He has about 160 publications, including a monograph published by Springer and several university textbooks. He has edited/coedited several conference proceedings. His Erdős number is 2.
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- Associate Professor of Mathematics
- North American Co - Director
- Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College
Michael Orrison is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. He received his A.B. from Wabash College in 1995, and his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 2001. His teaching interests include linear algebra, abstract algebra, discrete mathematics, and representation theory. His research interests include voting theory and harmonic analysis on finite groups. He particularly enjoys finding, exploring, and describing applications of the representation theory of finite groups with the help of his talented and energetic undergraduate research students.
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- Founding Chair of the Department of Integrated Sciences
- Founding Chair of the Department of Integrated Sciences at Claremont McKenna College
- North American Co - Director
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (born 1965) is the founding chair of the Department of Integrated Sciences at Claremont McKenna College. Previously, he was the R. Michael Shanahan Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College where he served as department chair and Associate Dean of Faculty. He received his A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of algorithms, computer networks, and computational biology. He has held two endowed chairs for effective teaching at Harvey Mudd.
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- Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science
Dávid Szeszlér (born 1975) is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). In 1997 he was awarded as "Excellent Teacher of the Department", based on student feedback surveys. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University as a mathematics teacher and English language technical translator in 1998. He obtained his Ph.D. in the field of VLSI routing in 2005; in the same year, he was awarded the "Farkas Gyula prize" of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society for applications of mathematics. His Erdős number is 3.
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- Co - Founder, President & CEO of Solvo Biotechnology
Ernő Duda (born 1968) is Co-Founder, President & CEO of Solvo Biotechnology, Hungary's largest independent biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Duda is also Founder and President of the Hungarian Biotechnology Association, and Co-Founder and Senior Consultant of Qualinnova Consulting. He has been acting as CEO of Solvo since 1999, and as a genuine entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded 20 companies, including a corporate finance consulting company focused on high-tech Hungarian start-ups, and Hungary's largest online second-hand book store. He is Co-Founder and Chairman of Aquincum Incubator, founded to help to develop new technology startups. He was Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary, and President of the Junior Achievement Foundation Hungary. Mr. Duda was a member of the Research and Technology Innovation Council, the Board of Trustees of the Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research, and works on the board of the Hungarian Association for Innovation. As an Associate Professor at the University of Szeged, he holds courses on the business aspect of the biotech industry. He is also a regular contributor to newspapers, periodicals and other publications, and frequently holds presentations on biotechnology and entrepreneurship at conferences, trainings and other public events.
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- Professor, Moholy - Nagy University of Art and Design Inventor
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- Senior Research Associate at the Statistical
Gergely Palla (born 1975) is a senior research associate at the Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). He received his Ph.D from the Eötvös University (ELTE) in 2002, the topic of his thesis was related to quantum chaos, semiclassical approximation and mesoscopic physics. His main field of interest concerns complex networks, with a special focus on topological phase transitions, community finding , the time evolution of communities and the studies of tagged networks. He has 37 publications in peer reviewed journals (including 2 papers in Nature), his independent citations are above 4000. During his scientific carrier he received the following prizes:Young Scientist Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2006), Bolyai Scholarship (2008), Imre Bródi Award (2009) and Junior Prima Award
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- Associate Professor and Head at the Department of Computer Science
Gyula Y. Katona (born 1965) is an associate professor and head at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University as a mathematician in 1991. Receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1997 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Katona spent two years at Ibaraki University, Japan. He also had a visiting appointment for a year at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 30 papers and co-author of a university textbook on discrete mathematics. He has been teaching Theory of Computing at the Budapest Semesters of Mathematics for several years. His Erdős number is 2.
Gábor Bojár (born 1949) is one of the very few entrepreneurs of Central-Eastern Europe to have succeeded in global business during the era of state-socialism. He founded Graphisoft, a software development firm, which became one of the top three international software vendors in its field within ten years. Claiming the most prestigious awards of the trade, Graphisoft's leading product, ArchiCAD® is used by hundreds of thousands of architects around the world. Graphisoft was listed on the Frankfurt and the Budapest stock exchange and has been purchased by Nemetscheck Gmbh in 2007. Mr. Bojár remains Chairman of Graphisoft's Board of Directors. Mr. Bojár is also the founder of Graphisoft Park, a real-estate development that turned an industrial site on the bank of the River Danube into a state-of-the art science park. Mr. Bojár was also an adjunct faculty member of Central European University Business School, lectures internationally, and has published a book exploring the "Graphisoft story" with an analytic perspective.
In 2007 Mr. Bojar founded Aquincum Institute of Techology and dedicates most of his time and other resources to realize the mission of AIT. Mr. Bojár has received numerous national and international awards for scientific and business excellence. He has been named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs in Central Europe and by Ernst and Young as Entrepreneur of the Year in Hungary. He has also spoken at several prestigious events including the Davos World Economic Forum. Mr. Bojar obtained his M.S. in physics from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
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- Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Gábor Wiener (born 1973) is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received his M.Sc. in mathematics (1996) and his Ph.D. in computer science (2003) from Eötvös University under the supervision of Gyula O. H. Katona. He got a NOKIA telecommunications research scholarship (1999), a young researcher scholarship at the Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1999-2002), a Suzuki Fellowship (2009) and a Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2013-2016). He was awarded the Farkas Gyula prize of the Bolyai János Mathematical Society (2003), the "Excellent Teacher of the Department" prize (2005), the Certificate of Merit of the board of trustees of the Bolyai Scholarship (2017), and the "Excellent Teacher of the Faculty" prize (2018). His fields of research are graph theory, search theory, and hypergraphs. He has been teaching combinatorics, graph theory, and computer science since 1996.
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- Associate Dean for Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer / Senior Lecturer on Computer Science
István Keszei (born in 1974) graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest as an industrial designer. He commenced his Ph.D. studies at MOME in 2012, where he has been lecturing since 2010. His Ph.D. thesis is titled "design for disaster situations." He is currently teaching a course at MOME on intelligent materials and technology and presentation skills with 2D/3D. He has received several national and international design awards and honors, including the 2009 Pál Takács Scholarship for Academic Achievement for best industrial design student of the year. He currently also works as an industrial lighting and electronics designer.
István Lám is the CEO and co-inventor of Tresorit's encryption technology. From a very young age, István had a deep interest in security and cryptography. During his time as a University student, István needed a secure cloud service where he could store his personal files and intellectual property securely. Feeling that no option on the market provided the top-tier security he required, István went on to develop and found Tresorit in 2011, deploying the strictest data security measures in the public cloud, backed by the company's patent-pending cryptographic encryption technology. Prior to founding Tresorit, István worked as a student researcher at the CrySyS Lab and at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and he was a student lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Previously, he was a financial advisor at Future Invest and Business Kft in Hungary. In addition, István has spearheaded Challenge24, a 24-hour long programming contest held annually in Budapest. István is a graduate from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (both with highest honors) with a specialty in cryptography engineering.
István Zsolt Berta obtained his PhD and MSc at the CrySyS Lab of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), he has MBA from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, and obtained professional certifications CISA, CISSP and CCSK. István is Head of Information Security Solution Certification at Citi, his team performing the infosec review of new technologies before they can be introduced into the bank's global infrastructure. Previously (from 2013 to 2014), he was information security officer for Citi technology infrastructure in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before joining Citi (from 2004 to 2012), he was Head of Information Security and head of R&D at Microsec Ltd., a Hungarian Certificate Authority, he also participated in writing EU standards for electronic signatures and public key infrastructure, and also wrote a book on these disciplines.
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- Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University
Eva Tardos is a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, is Senior Associate Dean of Computing and Information Science, and was department chair 2006-2010. She received her PhD from Eotvos University in Budapest. She has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, external member of the Hungarian Academy of Scinces, and is the recipient of some fellowships and awards, including the Goedel prize, Packard Fellowship, the Fulkerson Prize and the Dantzig prize. She was editor in chief of SIAM Journal of Computing 2003-09, and is editor of several other journals, including the Journal of the ACM, and Combinatorica. Her research interest is algorithms and algorithmic game theory, the subarea theory of designing systems and algorithms for selfish users.
JODY ORRISON is the administrative staff for the NACD. She received her B.A. in music from Truman State University in 1995 and has been teaching music privately and in schools for 20 years. During High School and College she worked for a CFP and gained key administrative skills. In addition to being a mom of four and working as a Prek-8th grade music teacher (vocal, general, band), she is happy to be able to assist AIT-Budapest and its wonderful students. She is the initial contact for basic program information, application, and billing inquiries.
Joseph Janos received his degree in Mathematics from ELTE, Budapest, in 1973. He started his career in the Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences where he was Head of a CAD/CAM department. He left for the USA in 1981. He worked for the CS Department of SUNY at Stony Brook and for a number of large companies (Wang Laboratories, Lotus, IBM, Modicon.) In this period in various roles he architected and led engineering teams to build large scale back-end systems and UI intensive end-user products. (Lotus Notes and SmartCenter, a desktop electronic publishing system, a graphical front-end for PLC editing and monitoring.) After 1994 he worked exclusively on Internet-related technologies. Co-presence server with Ubique (sold to AOL), SurfLogic, his own startup, a client-side customizable crawler that he sold to Oracle in 1997, relevance matching engine (Lumapath) and a content delivery system (Radiance.) In 2004 he joined Google, where he was one of the first 25 engineers hired in New York. He retired in 2015. During his 11 years at Google he helped to grow the NY organization and led several engineering teams, building both consumer facing products (AdWords, Maps) and large scale distributed internal services (network monitoring and management, data processing pipelines, data mining.) As a senior level architect he learned and used most of Google's vast technical infrastructure and technologies.
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- Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science
Judit Csima (born 1972) is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). She graduated from Eötvös Loránd University as a mathematician in 1997, and received her Ph.D. in computer science in 2003.
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- Experience Strategist & Designer
Judit Pónya is a User Experience Strategist & Designer. With over 10 years of experience, she works with product managers and software engineers, defining and designing digital products and services. She is first and foremost a practitioner; besides consulting, she has been teaching courses at the Budapest Polytechnic, at the University of Szeged, and currently she also teaches at the UI Academy of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She is a co-founder and organizer of the UX Budapest professional community.
Levente Buttyán received the Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL) in 2002. In 2003, he joined the Department of Networked Systems and Services at BME, where he currently holds a position as an Associate Professor and leads the Laboratory of Cryptography and Systems Security (CrySyS Lab). He has done research on the design and analysis of secure protocols and privacy enhancing mechanisms for wired and wireless networks. Recently, he has been involved in the analysis of some high profile targeted malware, such as Duqu, Flame, MiniDuke, and TeamSpy. He published 100+ refereed journal articles and conference/workshop papers. He also co-authored a book on Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks published by the Cambridge University Press in 2008. Besides research, he has been teaching courses on network security and electronic commerce in the MSc program at BME, and gave invited lectures at various places. He held visiting professor positions at EPFL and at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also providing consulting services, he has co-founded three IT security companies Tresorit, Ukatemi Technologies, and Avatao.
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- Professor, University of Chicago Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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- Assistant Professor at the Budapest University of Technology
László Kabódi (born 1987) is an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory. László started teaching during his masters studies, lecturing both in Hungarian and English. The courses László is involved in include declarative and constraint logic programming. He is about to defend his PhD thesis.
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- Professor, Eötvös University Former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Former President of the International Mathematical Union
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- Associate Professor at the Department of Control Engineering
László Szécsi (born 1978) is an associate professor at the Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He also lectured Computer Graphics at the János Selye University in Slovakia. He received his Ph.D. in 2010. His research interests include real-time computer graphics, non-photorealistic rendering, computer game programming, and programming of graphics cards both for rendering and for general-purpose computations. He is author of 43 publications, including 1 book, 7 book chapters, 10 journal articles, and 25 conference papers. He won the Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Lóránt Péteri (born 1976), musicologist, has been lecturing at AIT since the Autumn of 2011. He is professor and head of the Musicology Department of the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Gustav Mahler Research Centre (Toblach), of the Council of the Hungarian Musicological Society, and of the Musicological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has given papers about the music culture of state socialist Hungary and about the music of Gustav Mahler in international conferences (in Bristol, Brno, Budapest, Canterbury, Cardiff, Dobbiaco, Guildford, New York, Pittsburgh, Radziejowice, and Wrocław). Among his latest contributions is his chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification (2020).
Mariann Schiller is a secondary school teacher and teacher trainer in one of the most prestigious grammar schools in Budapest run by L. Eötvös University. Apart from teaching youngsters she is active in mentoring and educating teachers in a teachers' association and occasionally at university. She is also the editor of several teaching materials. She has been active in developing new ways of teaching Hungarian. For years she was responsible for the national board of the European Youth Parliament. She is a true Budapest dweller: born, brought up, and has been living in downtown in historic buildings.
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- Rahmoon Shamdeed Kabir ( 2023 Fall )
Márta Magasi graduated from Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest in 1982 with a degree in Hungarian language and literature. She has been a teacher at BME in the Centre of Modern Languages for 14 years, where she teaches Hungarian language courses to foreign students studying engineering. In addition, she is involved in university language training programs abroad and in editing and writing university publications (e.g. Readings in Technical English; Language Tests for Foreign Students, etc.). Recently she has been working as a teacher and coordinator of language trainings for leading multinational companies.
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- Research Fellow at Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Máté Vizer (born 1982) is a research fellow at Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) as a mathematician and got his PhD at Central European University (CEU) in 2013. As a high school student he participated at the International Mathematical Olympiad, and received a silver medal. At the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) he teaches introductory courses in Computer Science and Theory of Algorithms. His fields of research are combinatorics of graphs and hypergraphs and combinatorial search theory.
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- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs School of Engineering and Applied Science
Peter Bogucki (pronounced bo-good'-ski) is associate dean for undergraduate affairs of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. In this capacity, Bogucki oversees the academic advising, progress, and professional development of over 1,500 candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree. He is closely involved with the advising of BSE students planning to study abroad and the development of opportunities for international study. Bogucki is an archaeologist who received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He studies prehistoric settlements in Poland and has a particular interest in the spread of farming in Europe. Bogucki is the author of The Origins of Human Society (Blackwell, 1999) and Lost Civilizations: the Barbarians (Reaktion, 2017) along with numerous articles in archaeological journals. See http://www.princeton.edu/ bogucki.
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- Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science
Péter Pál Pach (born 1985) is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and the head of the MTA-BME Lendület Arithmetic Combinatorics research group. He received his M.Sc. in Mathematics (2009) and his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science (2013) from Eötvös Loránd University. His main research topic is Arithmetic Combinatorics. He won the Erdős Pál Young Researcher Scholarship in 2014 and the Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2015. As a high school student he participated twice at the International Mathematical Olympiad, and received a silver and a gold medal. His Erdős number is 2. His hobby is long-distance running, in 2014 he finished 10th at the Marathon National Championship.
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- Associate Professor at the Budapest University of Technology
Péter Szeredi (born 1949) is an Associate Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Between 1972 and 2003, he worked for several software R&D companies in Hungary. In the mid 1970s he authored the first Hungarian Prolog interpreter, and led the development of the MProlog system, a pioneering Hungarian software product sold worldwide in the 1980s. He worked as a research fellow at UK universities (Manchester and Bristol, 1987-1990) and at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (1998-1999). His main research fields are semantic technologies, as well as logic and constraint programming. He edited and co-authored a textbook on the Semantic Web published by Cambridge University Press. He is the author or co-author of about 90 peer-reviewed publications, including 14 books and book chapters. He has received several academic awards and is among the 15 researchers recognized by the Association of Logic Programming as "Founders of the field of Logic Programming".
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- Software Developer at the Institute for Computer Science
Péter Tóth works as a software developer at the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI). He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2020, where he teaches programming, databases and probability theory. His master's thesis is titled "Web interface for the Prolog language", which is the basis of an online practice system developed for declarative programming courses at AIT and BME.
Roland Molontay (born 1991) obtained his PhD degree in network and data science from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He was a visiting PhD student at Brown University in 2016. Currently he holds a research position at MTA-BME Stochastics Research Group and he also teaches mathematics and data science at BME for undergraduate and graduate students. He has been participating in many successful data intensive R&D projects with renowned companies (such as NOKIA-Bell Labs) throughout the years. He has been awarded the Gyula Farkas Memorial Prize in 2020 for his outstanding work in applied mathematics. He is the founder and leader of the Human and Social Data Science Lab at BME. Padmini Mukkamala Theory of Computing Padmini Mukkamala (born 1983) received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2011. At Rutgers, she received the "Teaching Award" for Fall 2008 based on student feedback surveys. She holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She has taught courses in Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers, IIT-Delhi, McDaniel College and Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Her Erdős number is 2.
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- Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science
Tamás Fleiner (1971) is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He received his Mathematics degree in 1995 at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and he got his PhD in 2000 at the TU/e in Eindhoven. His main research areas are Combinatorial Optimization, Combinatorics and its connection with Game Theory. At the BME and ELTE, he teaches inroduductory courses to Computer Science and Game Theory.
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- Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
Thomas H. Cormen is a Professor in the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science, where he has been since 1992. He currently serves as the department chair, and he directed the Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric from 2004 to 2008. Professor Cormen received the B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1978 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1992, respectively. An ACM Distinguished Educator, he is coauthor of the leading textbook on computer algorithms, Introduction to Algorithms, which he wrote with Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Professor Cormen's primary research interests are in algorithm engineering and parallel computing. He focuses on algorithms and software infrastructure to mitigate the high latency inherent in accessing the outer levels of the memory hierarchy and in interprocessor communication.