About me
I received my MSc and PhD in mathematics and computer science from the University of Szeged, Hungary. As of summer 2023 I am new to UCR, but not new to the Netherlands. I worked for 2 years at the European Space Agency and for 4,5 years at TU Delft, and for those 6+ years I lived in the Hague with my family. In 2012, I went back to the University of Szeged, to join the Department of Computational Optimization. I received my habilitation degree (‘venia legendi’) there in 2016. After spending 11 unforgettable years in my alma mater as an associate professor as well as vice-dean of public affairs at the Faculty of Science and Informatics, I decided to move to the beautiful Zeeland, which has been one of my favorite places since my first visit here. I am excited to continue my academic career at the University College Roosevelt, specifically because of its diversity, small scale yet vibrant atmosphere and its fully international environment.
UCR students interested in doing research in Computer Science should drop me a message as I am always open for discussion.
Research
My research interests lie in computational optimization. I have been contributing to the development of exact as well as heuristic-based global optimization methods, and to the exploration of the hidden structure and solvability properties of high dimensional optimization problems. Recently, I mainly focus on problems belonging to the intersection of optimization and graph theory. This includes mathematical modeling using integer linear programming; development of optimization methods exploiting local optima networks; and investigation of properties and usage of network centrality measures.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XZFOFSwAAAAJ
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/246665
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22954738800