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Balázs Benedek
PhD student
1092 Budapest
Bakáts tér 3.
tel: +36-30-9722556
e-mail: benedek@iit.bme.hu
Education
2001 – PhD Student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Computer Graphics Research Group
prof. SZIRMAY-KALOS, László
1995 – 2001 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Computer Science
Specialised in Fault Tolerant System and Informatics in Economy
MSc Dissertation: Real-time Virtual Human Animation for Film, Television and the Web
1998 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Human-Computer Interaction
International Student Exchange Program (ISEP)
1991 – 1995 John von Neumann Vocational High School, Budapest
Awards received
1999 November ACM Regional Contest, Prague
4th place, best Hungarian team
1998 November Trilogy Inc., Austin, Texas, USA
job interview at their HQ
1998 October won the local competition at the University of Utah to enter the team competing at ACM regional competition
1998 April 8 Job Fair at the University
selected as one of the best 10 participant
1997 November ACM Regional Contest, Bratislava
6th place, best Hungarian team
1997 February 24-hour-long team programming competition, Miskolc
4th place, and the special award of Datacap Inc, New York, New York, USA
1996 December Selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Person of Hungary by the Junior Chamber International (JCI TOYP)
1996 October English Professional Competition at the University, 2nd place
CS Professional Competition at the University, Multidimensional Signal Processing section, 3rd
1996 September Holder of the scholarship of the University
1996 May 47th International Science and Engineering Fair, Tucson, Arizona, USA
First Prize, Grand Award, Team Category
Braille Character Recognition Project
1995 May 46th International Science and Engineering Fair, Toronto, Hamilton, Canada
First Prize, Grand Award, Team Category
Braille Printer Project
1995 May 4th National Competition for Young Scientists
Braille Character Recognition Project, 1st place
Integrated Data and Software Security System (Ddefence), special award
1994 May 3rd National Competition for Young Scientists
Braille Printer Project, 1st place
References
2000,2002, 2003 Chief organizer of the BUTE 24-hour Programming Contest
1999-2000 Fornax Rt.
SMSBroker (Stock Current Price Observation System)
1998 ABN AMRO (Magyar) Bank
Currency/Foreign Exchange Rate Distribution System
1997 March exhibitor at CeBit, Hannover, Germany
1997-1998 Datacap Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
Optical Mark Recognition
1996 March exhibitor at CeBit
1996-1999 GE Lighting Tungsram
Multilingual Light Simulation System
(Hungarian, English, Slovak edition)
1995-1998 Recognita Rt.
Braille Character Recognition
1994-1995 Izobau Kft
Accounting System
Professional experience
- DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux
- i386 assembly, Pascal (Borland), Basic (Quick, Visual), Java, JavaScript
- C / C++ (GCC, Borland, Microsoft Visual), COM, MFC, ATL, STL
- HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP, Apache, XML
- Oracle, Object C, MySQL, Postgres, WWW-SQL, PHP
- Image processing, low level hardware programming, real-time systems
- OMT, OOP
- Remote development
- OpenGL, DirectX, Nebula 3D System
Languages- English (TOEFL 590 in 1998), some Spanish
HobbiesSailing, swimming, skiing, table-tennis, caving, scuba diving, meditation
Personal skills
- Strong at organisation, independent working and problem solving
- Ability to work in a team both as a leader and a member as well
- Perfectionist, ability to do work out something in great detail
- Experience in co-operation with people from other fields
- well-balanced, creative personality
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