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| Zoltán Prekopcsák Born 11th June 1984 in Budapest, Hungary Phone: +36 30 3887691 E-mail: prekopcsak (at) tmit.bme.hu |
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Current Positions
co-founder & CEO (December 2011 - )
Radoop Kft, Budapest, Hungary
Running a big data analytics company.
Research Assistant - data mining (February 2007 - )
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Data Mining Lab,
Budapest, Hungary
Teaching data mining, data visualization and big data courses, and doing research on time series classification problems.
Work Experience
Data Scientist (November 2010 - August 2012)
Secret Sauce Partners, Budapest, Hungary
Working on apparel fit prediction.
Trainer (September 2008 - November 2009)
Kitchen Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Keeping workshops and trainings in data visualization, presentation techniques and web-based groupwork tools.
Head of R&D (January 2007 - August 2008)
Ideonod Kft., Budapest, Hungary
Ideonod Kft. was a Hungarian startup in the creative industry which provided trainings and a social web application to share and develop ideas in a playful way.
Researcher - art & technology (June 2007 - January 2008)
Kitchen Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
I was working in the one and only Hungarian media laboratory as a researcher. Creating prototypes in the areas of human-computer interaction and information visualization.
Web Developer (January 2005 - December 2005)
0-8Biz Bt., Budapest, Hungary
Developing web applications with PHP, MySQL, Javascript technologies.
Research Visits
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (6 months)
Visegrad Fund scholarship (October 2010 - January 2011, April - May 2011)
Doing research in the intersection of neuroscience and data mining.
University of Provance, Marseille, France (10 days)
PASCAL Machine Learning Bootcamp (July 2010)
Studying and discussing topics like kernel methods, graphical models, online learning, natural language processing and many more.
Technical University of Madrid, Spain (1 week)
Spring School on Exact Pattern Recognition (March 2010)
Studying pattern recognition in bioinformatics data.
University of Porto, Portugal (1 week)
2nd European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing (March 2008)
Studying and discussing topics like distributed and stream data mining, sensor networks and privacy issues.
Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland (4 months)
Erasmus scholarship (September - December 2006)
Studying and researching data mining, recommender systems and algorithms.
Education
PhD student in Information Technology (2008 - unfinished)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Pattern classification in time series.
MSc in Technical Informatics (2003 - 2008)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Major in media informatics, minor in data mining.
Awards
- Best Supervisor Award, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Engineering, December 2011
- 7th place in the hardest task of ICDM Data Mining Contest (with IKTI and DMLab), September 2010
- 8th place in KDD Cup (with DMLab), June 2010
- 6th place in the RSCTC data mining contest, February, 2010
- 4th place in the UCSD Data Mining Contest (with DMLab), August, 2009
- Second Prize at Scientific Students' Association Conference, Budapest, Hungary, November 2007.
- 3rd place at KDD Time Series Challenge (with DMLab), June 2007
- YouthActionNet Award from International Youth Foundation, Baltimore, USA, 2003.
Language skills
- Hungarian - mother tongue
- English - written and spoken fluently (TOEFL IBT: 106)
- French - modest understanding
- Finnish, Czech - basic vocabulary
Hobbies
- Basketball player in the Hungarian second/third league (2002 - )
- Organizer of local slam poetry events (2008 - 2010)
- Leader of the Stations webradio network (2001 - 2005)