• Birth: June 28, 1974; Szeged, Hungary
• Email: marti(a)cs.bme.hu

AFFILIATION:

• 2000-: Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/D, Hungary
  Phone: +36-1-463-3158

EDUCATION:

• PhD obtained, 2002, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  Thesis title: ``Consistency results in nonparametric regression estimation and classification''
• PhD student (supervisor Prof. László Györfi) at the Technical University of Budapest at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, 1997-2000.

• M.Sc. in Engineering in Technical Informatics, 1997, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary.
  Thesis title: ``Scale-sensitive dimensions and their role in pattern recognition''
• English-Hungarian technical translator and interpreter, 1997, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary.

SCHOLARSHIPS:

• Young Lecturer Scholarship of MVM Rt (a major electric power supplier in Hungary), 2001
• PhD Dissertation Scholarship of the Soros Foundation, Hungary, 2000
• Republic Scholarship, 1996
• Scholarship of the MHB's Foundation for Hungarian Technical Progress, 1996
• Visiting student at the University of Derby, England (September-December 1996)

AWARDS:

• Institution Prize of MTA SZTAKI, 2003
• one of the best five candidates for Cor Baayen prize (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics), 2002
• Farkas Gyula Prize (of the Bolyai Mathematical Society), 2002
• First Prize at the PhD Students' Conference of MTA SZTAKI, 1999
• Chorafas Prize, 1998
• Rényi Kató Prize (of the Bolyai Mathematical Society), 1997
• Pro Scientia Gold Medal (a prize given by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) to the best university students), 1997
• OTDK (national scientific student conference) First Prize, 1997
• TDK (scientific student conference) First Prize, 1995, 1996, Technical University of Budapest

RESEARCH INTEREST: nonparametric statistics, statistical pattern classification, information theory

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Probability Theory, Theory of Algorithms, Information Theory, Queueing, Nonparametric Statistics, Datamining, Discrete Mathematics