Mihály Bányai
EDUCATION
2009-2012 Budapest University of Technology and Economics Doctoral School of Computer Science
Program: Intelligent systems
Thesis title: Functional modelling of cortical macro-networks
2010 Beliefs and Decisions: Minds and Machines Summer University Course CEU, Budapest
2004-2009 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
Faculty of Information Technologies
Degree: MSc in Computer Science
Thesis title: Cooperative reoinforcement learning in mobile robotics
2008 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ERASMUS Scholarship
Program: Artificial Intelligence
2000-2004 Nagy Lajos High School of the Cistertian Order, Pécs, Hungary
EMPLOYMENT
2013- Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Department of Theory, Computational Systems Neuroscience Lab
Position: postdoctoral fellow
2007-2013 Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Department of Theory, Computational Neuroscience and Complex Systems Group
Position: junior research fellow
2010-2012 Kalamazoo College, MI, USA
Position: research and teaching assistant
AWARDS
2011 Travel award, CNS ’11, Stockholm
2011 Travel award, Mathematical Neuroscience conference, Edinburgh
2010 Best student poster prize, Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Society for Neuroscience
2010 Beliefs and Decisions: Minds and Machines Summer University Course CEU, Budapest
2008 PPKE ITK Scientific Student Conference, Robotics Section, II. Prize
2008 ERASMUS Scholarship. Katholieke Universieit Leuven, Belgium
TEACHING
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in Hungarian:
2013 – Statistical learning in the nervous system
2009 – 2013 Computational Neuroscience
Semmelweis University, Budapest, in Hungarian, bi-annually
2014 – Neuroinformatics
Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, in English:
2013 – Neural Computation
Kalamazoo College, USA, in English:
2009 Introduction to complex systems
2009 Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
2010 Computational neuroscience
2010 Prediction of financial crises
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in Hungarian:
2009-2012 Electrical measurements
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, in Hungarian:
2006 Discrete mathematics and linear algebra
2007 – 2008 Data structures and algorithms
2008 Programming languages and methods