Personal information

Address: H-1123 Budapest, Táltos u. 4, Hungary. Phone: +36 1 2018563, +36 20 9648123.
e-mail: see bottom of page

Place and date of birth: Budapest, 30^th December 1977

Marital status: married, 2 children (2004, 2005)

Education

2005: PhD in Computer science from Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Thesis entitled 'Partitioning algorithms for hardware/software co-design'

2001-2004: PhD student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology. Field of research: design methodologies for complex embedded systems consisting of both hardware and software components, subject to real-time constraints

2004: MSc in Mathematics. Thesis entitled 'Metric-based approximation algorithms for graph cut problems'

1997-2004: Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science; Specialization in Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Computational complexity

2001: MSc in Computer engineering (honors degree). MSc thesis written and defended at University of Karlsruhe, entitled 'Dynamic validation of access to external information sources in a mediator environment'

1996-2001: Computer engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, German-speaking education; Specialization in Telecommunication and Software Engineering

1998/99 and 2000/2001: two terms at University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Information Technology

1996: A-level examination in Fazekas Mihály Grammar School, specialized in Mathematics

Current position (since 2007)

• Senior IT and management consultant at Proponens Ltd. / AAM Management Information Consulting Ltd. Responsibilities:
  • Head of Software Engineering competence
  • IT consulting: management of software development projects, enterprise architecture, IT service management, ITIL, IT governance, COBIT
  • Management consulting: business process management, organization development, management of EU-funded projects
• Assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Responsibilities:
  • Teaching Introduction to computer science and Theory of algorithms (in German)
  • Research in algorithms and computational complexity

Previous experience

2004-2007: Senior Software Engineer, then Managing Consultant at sd&m (Software Design & Management AG, Munich), the Technical Services division of Capgemini in Germany. Responsibilities:

• Design of software systems for corporate customers
• Helping corporate customers in decisions for the transformation of their IT application landscape
• Project acquisition
• Member of the Center of Competence Automotive
• Head of the Community "Car-IT", a group of 35 engineers and consultants aiming at the consolidation, dissemination, and publication of know-how from the automotive IT domain

2002-2003: participation in the EASYCOMP project of the European Union. Topic: Design and implementation of a composition engine enabling the component-based design of complex hardware/software systems

2001-2003: participation in a project funded by Akita Industrial Development Center, Japan. Topic: Implementation of neural net-based applications for healthcare

2001: project manager and software architect, Simulator for VLSI routing algorithms

2000-2002: distinguished member of Ericsson High Speed Networks Laboratory. Topic: design and implementation of general-purpose intelligent search algorithms

2000 (two months): internship at Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany. Topic: Modeling and implementation of a tracing architecture for distributed object-oriented systems

1999-2001: member of E-BizLab Financial Security Laboratory. Topic: security analysis and cryptographic applications of smart cards, analysis of public key cryptography based on elliptic curves

1999 (two months): internship at Siemens Automotive, Regensburg, Germany. Topic: simulation of an embedded real-time operating system under Windows NT

1997-2004: Tutor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory (teaching Discrete mathematics, Formal languages, Introduction to Computer science, and Theory of algorithms, in German language)

Language skills

German, State language exam: 1994, advanced level

English, Pitman language exam: 1996, higher intermediate level; State language exam: 1997, advanced level

French, State language exam: 1998, intermediate level

Awards

• J. Kemény award of the John von Neumann Society for Computer Science for outstanding professional activities (2009)
• ITG-Förderpreis (Award of the German Informationstechnische Gesellschaft for outstanding doctoral dissertation) (2006)
• Siemens Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation (2005)
• Dimitris N. Chorafas Award (2004)
• Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for PhD students (2003)
• 'Best PhD student' award of the Foundation for Telecommunications in Education (2003)
• Grant of the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Student Federation (2002)
• Pro Scientia Golden Medal (the highest recognition for young researchers by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (2001)
• Award of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (2001)
• MSc thesis award of the Foundation for the Technical Improvement of the Industry and of the Scientific Society for Measurement, Automation and Information Technology (2001)
• Winner of the IEEE Hungary Section student paper contest (2001)
• Grant of Timber Hill LLC (2001, 2002, 2003/2004)
• First prize of the Smart Card Forum of the John von Neumann Society for Computer Science (2000)
• K. Rényi prize of the János Bolyai Mathematics Society (2000)

Hobbies

Aikido, billiards