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