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Resume of László Gulyás, January 2006

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

  • Multi-Agent Simulation (Complex Social Systems, Social Science Models)
  • Multi-Agent Systems (Coordination, Social Approaches, Stigmergy)
  • Distributed Systems (Mobile Agents, Mobile Object Systems, Coordination in Mobile Systems)
  • Artificial Intelligence

STUDIES:

PhD in Informatics, Thesis title:
Understanding Emergent Social Phenomena:  Methods, Tools, and Applications for Agent-Based Modeling) at
Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences (ELTE), Budapest, HUNGARY
Summa cum laude, 2006.

Received MSc in Computer Science in 1996 at
Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences (ELTE), Budapest, HUNGARY

Selected Courses in General Economics at
University of Economics, Budapest, HUNGARY
1994-1998.

Courses in Teaching Methodology at
Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences (ELTE), Budapest, HUNGARY
1994-1998.

Received BSc in Computer Science in 1994 at
Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences (ELTE), Budapest, HUNGARY

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Hungarian (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
French (mostly reading)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, 2006-
Assistant Professor

Simulation Center, Informatics Cooperative Research and Education Center, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary (2005- /part time/)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee. (Agent-based modeling of complex systems.)

AITIA International, Inc. (2003-2004 /part time/, 2005-2006 /full time/, 2007- /part time/ )
Research partner. (Applications of and methodologies for agent-based modeling and simulation.)

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Computer and Automation Research Institute
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HUNGARY (1999-2001 & 2003-2004)
Research fellow. (Applications of and methodologies for agent-based modeling and simulation.)

Harvard-MIT Data Center, Harvard University (2003-2004)
Part-time consultant. Taking part in the development of the Virtual Data Center .

Government Department, Harvard University (2001-2002)
Part-time research associate. Applications of and methodologies for agent-based modeling and simulation.
Including teaching assistantship to Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman with classes Gov2015 and Gov2016 .

Harvard-MIT Data Center, Harvard University (2001-2002)
Part-time research fellow. Taking part in the development of the Virtual Data Center .

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Computer and Automation Research Institute
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HUNGARY (1999-2001)
Research fellow. (Coordination in mobile agent systems.)

Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) (2000, 3 months)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Visiting fellow. (Mechanism design for coordination in multi-agent systems.)

Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory,
Central European University, Budapest, HUNGARY (1996-1999)
Research in the field of Multi-Agent Simulations, implementing simulations of social systems.
Leading the lab's 'Telemodeling' project, including ( http://www.syslab.ceu.hu/ )

  • the development of the Multi-Agent Modeling Language (MAML)
    (http://www.syslab.ceu.hu/maml/ ),
  • an experimental visual interface to MAML,
  • several visualization and data analysis tools.

TEACHING ACTIVITY:

Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Department of General Computer Science, 1998-2001, 2005.
Dennis Gabor College, Budapest (2000)
Supervised 20+ successful thesis works (for MSc. and BSc. degrees in Computer Science).

Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Budapest, (1993-1999, 2005)
Undergraduate course on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. (2005)
Various courses for undergraduate and graduate students in informatics., including
Programming Methodologies, Modula-2, Java, Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
Mobile Software Systems and Techniques of E-Commerce. (1993-1999)

RePast Tutorial at Agent 2002, Social Agents: Ecology, Exchange, and Evolution,
University of Chicago, October 8-9, 2002.

Given part of the tutorial.

SFI Complex Systems Summer Schools, Budapest School (2002)
Faculty member (agent-based simulation).

Government Department, Harvard University (2001-2002)
Teaching assistant to Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman with graduate courses
Gov2015 and Gov2016.

Company Trainings in Java, (1999-2000)
Several courses for company professionals in Java, Swing, EJB, etc.

Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory, Central European University, Budapest, (1997-1999)
Courses for graduate students on Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation, using Swarm and MAML (Multi-Agent Modeling Language).

Hungarian National Contest in Informatics, (1992-2001)
International Olympiad in Informatics for High School Students Taking part in the organization of the national contest since 1992.
Selecting and training the national team for IOIs, since 1996.


OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Invited Participant at
Technology Roundtable: Transportation Technology Summit December 7-8, 2006 Herndon, Virginia Herndon, Virginia

Reviewed for
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, MA, USA (1999)
Social Science Computer Review, SAGE Publications
Journal of Artificial Social Societies (JASSS), University of Surrey
and for various conferences and workshops (e.g., ESSA2007, M2M2 2007, EPOS2006, Interaction and Emergence @ AAAI FSS, etc.)

EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute in Complex Systems
Member in
Universitŕ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy (2005)
Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary (2004)
École Normal Superieur, Lyon, France (2003)

Graduate Workshop in Computational Economics (2003)
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Participant.

TIGRASOFT Ltd.
Part-time chief-technical officer, 2001.
Development of the company's Quality Management System as a Consultant, 2000.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, High Performance Computing Center (1996)
Studying and beta-testing the aCe parallel programming langage (visiting John E. Dorband).

HUNABC '98 1998.
Co-chair of the First Hungarian National Conference on Agent-Based Computing.

IOI '96, '97 1996, 1997. CEOI ‘2001, 2005.
Deputy leader of the national team at the International (or Central-European) Olympiad in Informatics (for high school students).


MEMBERSHIPS:

European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), 2006-

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2006-

Repast Organization for Architecture and Development (ROAD), 2003-
Invited member.

NJSZT 1995-
Member of the John von Neumann Computer Society. From 1999 Secretary of Talent-Scouting Section.


AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

John von Kemeny Award of the John von Neumann Computer Society.

2000.

Best Talk Award (3rd place) at the Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science, Szeged, Hungary

2000

Award of the Minister of Education for the training of the Hungarian Team Participating at the International Olimpiad in Informatics

1998, 1999,

 2001,
2005.

Excellent student of the faculty (Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences, Faculty of Sciences) 

1995

Hungarian Republican Scholarship

1994-1995

International Olympiad in Informatics, bronze medal

1991

National Competition in Informatics, 3rd place

1991

International Olympiad in Informatics, member of the national team

1990

National Competition in Informatics, 9th place

1990

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

Operating Systems
Linux/Unix/Irix, Windows XP/2000/NT/9x, Mac OS/X, VAX/VMS, Sun Solaris, MS-DOS

Programming Languages and Libraries
Java (+Servlets, +JSP), JavaScript, C++, Objective-C, C, Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, Prolog
XML, XSLT, SQL (mySQL, Oracle)
RePast, MAML, Swarm

 

Personal

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László Gulyás
lgulyas@aitia.ai
2330, Dunaharaszti, Rónai György utca 124/a
(+36)-30-638-3218
male
Married, 1 child
December 17, 1972, Szentes, Hungary
Hungarian

 

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