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Triumphs at TDK 2024: Lab Students Shine with 1st Prizes and Special Awards!

Outstanding Achievements by Our Lab Students at the 2024 Scientific Students' Association Conference (TDK) at Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem!

Roland Molontay Honored with the Prestigious Károly Conlegner Teaching Award

The award was presented by Szombati Aniko and Bálint Balogh, executive directors at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary).

Our New Study Written in International Collaboration Published in Fractals

The study introduces a novel approach to network classification.

HSDSLab Students Shine at 'i-Days for Life' Innovation Competition

On November 11-12, 2024, the University of Debrecen hosted the “i-Days for Life” international student innovation competition...

Strong Presence at SciComp24: Showcasing Our Lab’s Latest Research

Our lab had a strong presence at the SciComp24 conference, organized by the Institute for Scientific Computing at the Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged.

The Youngest Lab Member Interviewed in Délmagyar

The interview celebrates Béla being recognized as the most outstanding scholarship recipient in the Rising Talent category of the ÚNKP by the Faculty of Natural Sciences...

Outstanding Student Award and MSc Graduations in Our Lab

Our young colleagues have received several awards: Csaba received the title of Outstanding Student of the Faculty, while Csaba, Donát and Artúr received MSc degrees with honours...

New Interns Join Our Lab for an Exciting Fall Semester

At the end of summer, we bid farewell to Gwen Billy but we're excited to welcome Maria Amaro, Ece Titiz, and Bertold Pál...

Roland Molontay Moderates AI Roundtable at ITBUSINESS Data & Technology Conference

The head of our lab had the honor of moderating the AI Trends and Reflections roundtable, which was a dynamic discussion featuring insights from esteemed industry professionals...

Csaba Kiss’s First Publication Explores Longevity Leaders in Scientific Reports

The paper, co-authored with Bálint Vető and László Németh, proposes a stochastic model using a Markov process to describe the age evolution of the world's oldest person...

Kiss Csaba received the Outstanding Student of the Faculty award

In the 2023/24 academic year, our colleague received the most prestigious student award from the Faculty of Natural Sciences...

New paper in Social Network Analysis and Mining

In this paper, K. Barnes, P. Juhász, M. Nagy, and R. Molontay explore the interconnected topic dynamics across traditional news sources and social media platforms...

Donát Köller won the second prize at the EELISA Scientific Student Competition

Donát Köller, won the second prize with his paper titled "Examining the correlation between university instructors' research performance and student evaluations using data science tools"...

New paper in the Journal of Applied Probability

Balázs Ráth, Kitti Varga, Panna Fekete, and Roland Molontay study a variant of the color-avoiding bond percolation model on edge-colored Erdős–Rényi random graphs...

HSDSLab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher

We offer a full-time 1-year position (with the possibility of 1-year extension) for a postdoctoral researcher to work at HSDSLab...

New paper in the Journal of Mathematical Chemistry

Marcell Nagy and his co-authors published an article, titled Progress in the valorization of biomass: a statistical perspective, in the Journal of Mathematical Chemistry...

New paper in Discrete Applied Mathematics

József Pintér and Kitti Varge published a paper titled Color-avoiding connected spanning subgraphs with minimum number of edges in Discrete Applied Mathematics...

Fantastic results on the Student Research Conference

Thrilled to share the remarkable success of three of our talented students at the 2023 Scientific Students' Associations Conference (TDK)...

Our researchers at the Complex Networks conference

At this year's Complex Networks conference, two of our students, Kate Barnes and Levente Murgás, presented their research in our lab...

Interview with Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher Kate Barnes

The interview reveals what attracted Kate Barnes to Hungary, and how a successful project at AIT led her to collaborate with Roland Molontay in a Fulbright programme...

Both the head and deputy head of our lab are among the BME's distinguished researchers

At the event entitled "Who we are proud of", BME welcomed its distinguished researchers who have received a scientific award in the past year...

An article by Roland Molontay and Marcell Nagy was published in the latest issue of Behaviour

Our lab leader and deputy lab leader summarize the milestones of artificial intelligence in the Behvariour HR Market Big Book...

New paper in International Transactions in Operational Research

In our latest article we shed light on how science can contribute to making championships more exciting...

Marcell Nagy defended his PhD Thesis

Marcell Nagy's PhD public defense was a resounding success! He defended his PhD dissertation with a perfect score...

Four of our members have been awarded the New National Excellence Program scholarship

Béla Bálint, Donát Köller, Csaba Kiss, and József Pintér have been awarded the scholarship...

Marcell Nagy presented at the SEFI conference

Marcell Nagy had an enriching week at the SEFI Engineering Education Conference in Dublin, where he shared insights from our educational data science research...

Our researchers at the Hungarian Machine Learning Meeting

Four of our researchers participated in the Hungarian Machine Learning Meeting organized by the National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence (MILAB)...

Our researchers at the NetSci conference

Four HSDSLab researchers attended NetSci, the largest conference in network science, which was held in Vienna from 10 to 14 July this year...

Kate Barnes presented at the IACAP conference

Kate presented her research on the popularity of social media posts at the International Association of Computing and Philosophy conference in Prague...

Roland Molontay has been elected to the EMYA

30 young mathematicians from 18 European countries have been selected, with our country represented by Kornélia Héra (ELTE) and Roland Molontay the head of HSDSLab...

Marcell Nagy was asked by Behaviour magazine

Marcell Nagy was asked by the Behaviour about the potential of artificial intelligence in higher education and the labour market....

Our researchers at the EduData Summit

Roland Molontay and Marcell Nagy attended the EduData Summit organized by QS, which took place this year in San Francisco from 17 to 19 May...

Our article received an MTA Prize for Excellence

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences awarded the Publication Award of Excellence to Zombor Berezvai, Gergely Dániel Lukáts, and Roland Molontay...

Enikő Zakar-Polyák placed first at the Informatics OTDK

Enikő was awarded 1st place in the Mathematical Methods section with her thesis "Data-driven and model-based analysis of the characteristics of fractal networks"...

New article by Marcell Nagy on Qubit

Marcell Nagy summarises some of the results of HSDSLab's research on Qubit, the largest Hungarian science communication portal...

Marcell Nagy published in the Scientia et Securitas journal

Marcell Nagy reports in the thematic issue of the Cooperative Doctoral Programme of the Scientia et Securitas about his doctoral research...

Roland Molontay was asked by the ITBusiness magazine

The head of our lab, Roland Molontay, talked in the April issue of ITBusiness magazine about the importance of human-centered data science...

József Pintér at the Japanese-Hungarian Discrete Mathematics Conference

The main goal of the conference is to maintain and build on the decades of highly successful Japanese-Hungarian discrete mathematics cooperation...

Our latest paper is published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

In this work, the authors demonstrate how explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) tools can support educational stakeholders in dropout prediction...

Our latest paper is published in Applied Network Science

The article by E. Zakar-Polyák, M. Nagy and R. Molontay, titled Towards a better understanding of the characteristics of fractal networks, was published in Applied Network Science...

A new course offered by our lab: the Project Laboratory

From this semester onwards, our lab is responsible for the Project laboratory course at the BME Institute of Mathematics...

Our latest paper is published in the proceedings of CompleNet

In this research, we introduce two novel network models, to better understand the growing mechanism and structural characteristics of fractal networks...

Roland Molontay was a keynote speaker at DH_BUDAPEST_2022

The Department of Digital Humanities of ELTE organized its annual international conference, the Digital Humanities Budapest conference...

József Pintér and Kitti Varga at the KOLKOM 2022 conference

The 39th meeting of the conference Colloquium on Combinatorics took place at Paderborn University on November 18-19, 2022...

Five new members joined our lab in November

This november Ildikó Bitter, Eszter Kaló, Flórián Kaló, Fares Ghezal, and Ahmed Bannour joined HSDSLab...

Roland Molontay received the Róbert Bárány Prize

The awards were presented on 10 November by Miklós Maróth, President of ELKH, and Viktória Zalányi, Secretary General of ELKH...

HSDSLab at the Rényi Institute's Deep Learning seminar

Three of our researchers, Roland Molontay, Marcell Nagy and József Pintér, gave a joint presentation at the Rényi Institute's Deep Learning seminar...

Roland Molontay presented at a seminar at the University of Illinois Chicago

He presented the results of a paper published in 2020 in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology...

Four new members joined HSDSLab in September

We are delighted to announce that Kate Barnes, Csaba Kiss, Donát Köller, and Artúr Vlaszov joined our team...

An intern joined us from the prestigious Sorbonne University

Sawfan Idris conducted research on the optimal choice of hyperparameters for the dynamic PCA algorithm under the supervision of Máté Baranyi and Roland Molontay...

Roland Molontay has been awarded the NRDI OTKA grant!

Roland won in the postdoctoral category with his application "Decision support in higher education using machine learning and econometric methods"...

Marcell Nagy received the Gyula Kőnig Young Researcher Award

The aim of the award is to recognise the outstanding research work of doctoral students at BME's Doctoral School of Mathematics and Computer Science...

József Pintér received the Outstanding Student of the Faculty award

The Faculty of Natural Sciences of BME has awarded the most prestigious prize for students, the Outstanding Student of the Faculty Award, to József Pintér from our lab...

Our researchers completed their research semester at Indiana University Bloomington

Marcell Nagy and Roland Molontay spent the spring semester in the CNS research group led by Katy Börner...

What does the university entrance score say about a student?

In our latest article, Roland Molontay and Marcell Nagy examine how to improve the predictive validity of the Hungarian university entrance score...

Our MSc student presented at the CompleNet confernce

For the first time, HSDSLab participated at the ComplNet conference, where Enikő Zakar-Polyák presented our network science research...

We brought home an award from EduData Summit

This year, the EduData Summit was held at the UN Headquarters in New York, where Roland Molontay gave a presentation and BME received an award...

Our latest paper about AI in medicine is out

In our latest article, we developed an AI-based model for early prediction of the severity of acute pancreatitis with the Hungarian Pancreatic Study Group...

Mihály Szabó received Pro Juventute Universitatis award

Mihály Szabó, former director of the Central Academic Office, affiliate of HSDSLab, was awarded the Pro Juventute Universitatis prize by the Senate of BME...

Our latest paper is published in Network Science

In our latest paper, we use data science methods to investigate the ability of network models to capture the relationships between graph metrics observed in real networks...

A Fulbright visiting student researcher joins our lab

We are so happy to host Kate Barnes, an alumna of Colorado College and AIT-Budapest as a visiting student researcher at BME supported by the Fulbright Program...

Roland Molontay presented at the Learning Analytics Summit

Our lab leader gave a presentation entitled "How can data science assist decision-making in higher education?" at Indiana University's Annual International Learning Analytics Summit...

Our latest paper is published in Scientific Reports

In our latest paper, we used interpretable machine learning tools for the early prediction of acute necrotizing pancreatitis...

HSDSLab at the SITE 2022 conference

For the first time, HSDSLab participated at the SITE 2022 conference, where Roland Molontay and Marcell Nagy gave presentations about their educational data science research...

Roland Molontay was asked by Behaviour HR magazine

Our lab manager was interviewed by Behaviour - HR-magazine about the importance of specialist and generalist knowledge. Roland Molontay recalled the results of a recent related research of our lab...

Workshop aftermovie

At the end of last year, we held a highly successful hybrid workshop on educational data science. A short aftermovie was also made of the event...

Call for proposals on dropout prediction

The Living Lab & Data Hub of the Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico shared a proposal on dropout prediction...

Roland Molontay was guest on HRTV

Our lab manager was a guest of HRTV, interviewed by Péter Bogyó. They discussed, for example, how is data science integrated into the humanities...

Roland Molontay was guest on Digital Insider podcast

In the Digital Insider podcast, our lab leader, Roland Molontay, was the guest of Péter Bogyó...

HSDSLab at the Complex Networks 2021 conference

This year we were again represented at the Complex Networks conference, where our lab's MSc student Enikő Polyák presented her TDK-winning research...

Interview with our Fulbright guest professor, Timothy O’Brien

Bme.hu conducted a joint interview with Timothy E. O'Brien and Roland Molontay. Professor O'Brien explains why he joined our lab and how his stay has been in Budapest...

Roland Molontay presented at the research seminar of the Tecnológico de Monterrey

Roland Molontay presented his research on "How can data science assist decision-making in higher education?" at a research seminar of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico...

We organized a workshop on Educational data science

In the framework of the Hungarian Science Day, our lab organised a hybrid workshop entitled "Educational Data Science: mathematical answers from the educational administrative system"...

Pro Scientia Gold Medal awarded to Gergely Lukáts

We were honoured that this year a former student and colleague of HSDSLab, Gergely Dániel Lukáts, was also awarded the Pro Scientia Gold Medal...

Success at the TDK: Enikő Polyák received the first prize

Our student and colleague, Enikő Polyák was awarded the first prize in the Modelling and Simulation section of this year's Scientific Student Conference (TDK) for her paper about fractal networks...

Our latest paper is published in Applied Network Science

The article by Péter Tamás Kovács, Marcell Nagy and Roland Molontay, entitled Comparative analysis of box-covering algorithms for fractal networks, was published in Applied Network Science...

Roland Molontay in Webuni’s webinar on data science

The roundtable discussion discussed, among other things, what roles exist in the data science world, what skills are needed to become a data scientist...

Roland Molontay is interviewed in the IT Business ICT Market Almanach 2021

The IT Business ICT Market Almanach 2021 has been published, in which Roland Molontay was interviewed about the relationship between artificial intelligence and HR...

The most innovative project award by ITBusiness

The professional jury of ITBusiness awarded the most innovative project development of 2021 award to a project of Nokia Bell Labs and BME...

Honouring the 60+1st birthday of Károly Simon with a research conference

Károly Simon - the head of the Department of Stochastics at BME and a professor of every member of our lab - is going to celebrate his 60+1st birthday next year...

A Fulbright scholar joins our lab this Fall

It is our great pleasure that this Fall HSDSLab hosts Timothy O’Brien, a statistics professor from Loyola University Chicago...

HSDSLab at the Networks 2021 conference

A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference, called Networks 2021, was hosted by the Indiana University Network Science Institute...

Our paper on the past 20 years of networks science is out

A paper by Roland Molontay and Marcell Nagy has been published in Big Data and Social Media Analytics by Springer...

Our project is covered by portfolio.hu

Our project on predicting employment in the machinery industry is covered by the leading Hungarian economic news portal...

Our meme paper is featured by Applied Network Science

The editors of Applied Network Science found our paper interesting enough to feature it on the front page of the journal...

Fantastic results on the 35th National Student Research Conference

Students of HSDSLab were decorated at the 35th National Student Research Conference...

Two blog posts about our recent meme paper

Two interesting blog posts have been written by Nóra Balogh where she talks about the findings of our meme paper...

Marcell Nagy was asked by Behaviour HR magazine

Our colleague, Marcell Nagy was asked by the Behaviour - a HR-magazine about a recent research at Yale University...

From a group project to a paper

The students provided a content-based predictive analysis on the popularity of memes scraped from the Reddit social media site...

HSDSLab joined the AI Coalition

AI Coalition connects stakeholders in business, research, academia and government in the field of artificial intelligence...

What incremental predictive validity do psychological factors have?

We study what incremental predictive power psychological factors have over pre-enrolment achievement measures...

Our annomaly detection method received an innovation award

The anomaly detection method co-authored by our lab leader received an innovation award...

Does the university entrance score have high predictive validity?

Is the nationally standardized university entrance score a good measure to rely admission decisions on?

Living on campus: blessing or curse from an academic point of view?

What effect living on-campus has on academic performance? The HSDSLab researchers investigated...

Media coverage in the Behaviour HR Magazine

Our lab leader, Roland Molontay was asked by the Behaviour HR magazine...

Our colleagues investigated: Is math remediation worth it?

Máté Baranyi and Roland Molontay published in the Interactive Learning Environments...

Roland Molontay was awarded the Gyula Farkas Prize

The coordinator of our lab was awarded the Gyula Farkas Commemorative Prize...

HSDSLab at the Complex Networks 2020 conference

Our team delivered three talks at the Complex Networks 2020 conference...

Our students were decorated at the Conference of Student Research

Two first, and two second prizes! All our students are qualified for the OTDK...

Virtual conference presentation: ACM SIGITE 2020

Máté Baranyi presented our latest paper on educational data science...

Marcell Nagy was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship

The deputy coordinator of our lab, Marcell Nagy was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship...

Can professors buy student evaluation? Our colleagues reveal the secret

We published our results in the prestigious Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education...

Our new media partner: the renewed Behaviour magazine

A partnership and cooperation agreement is signed between HSDSLab and the renewed Behaviour magazine...

Marcell Nagy won a prestigious scholarship

Marcell Nagy was awarded with the prestigious scholarship of New National Excellence Program...

Summer interns from ENSAE Paris

Last year Olivier Guin, this year Romain Lesauvage, student from ENSAE Paris, spent his summer internship at our lab...

Data science specializations are the most popular

Half of the mathematics students chose the data science specialization where the members of HSDSLab play a key role...

One of the most famous network scientists tweeted our work

Steven Strogatz, whose name can be familiar for everyone from the famous Watts-Strogatz small-world network model shared our work on Twitter...

Our team is efficient during the self-quarantine period as well

Due to the coronavirus pandemic HSDSlab works from home since the middle of March. Yet, we are doing our best...

Two of our members presented at the ÚNKP conference

Roland Molontay and Gergely Lukáts were awarded with the prestigious scholarship of the New National Excellence Program...

The Bachelor's thesis of our lab leader was plagiarized

Roland Molontay bumped into his own words in columns of the Scientific Reports, but “authored” by Chinese scientists...

We published in the IEEE Transactions in Learning Technologies

The renowned journal IEEE Transaction in Learning Technologies published the most recent article of our lab...

Professor Timothy O’Brien paid a visit to our group

Timothy O’Brien, a statistics professor from Loyola University paid a preparatory visit to our group...

HSDSLab at a lagship winter conference of network science

We delivered a talk and presented a poster at NetSci-X network science conference...

Our lab members were decorated at the award ceremony

The best research students and most outstanding supervisors were awarded: Rector’s and Pro Progressio Award...

Two paper in the conference proceedings of IEEE ICETA

This year two students of our lab, Kristóf Gál and Botond Kiss also presented at the conference...

HSDSLab at the SEFI Annual conference

The 47th annual conference of the European Society for Engineering Educationwas held at BME this year...

HSDSLab at the ASONAM conference

Our lab was represented with two papers at the flagship conference of social network analysis...

HSDSLab at a conference on Mathematics & Industry

Our lab was represented with two poster presentations at a conference in Santiago de Compostela...

Our team was awarded the most prestigious prizes of BME TTK

Our lab leader was awarded the Outstanding Lecturer Award, another colleague received the Outstanding Student Award...

Our colleagues received Excellent Paper Award
Máté Baranyi and Roland Molontay received Excellent Paper Award at the IEEE ISET conference...

Klaudia Zeleny also received 1st prize at the OTDK

Her paper titled The effects of living on campus on academic achievement received 1st prize...

Gergely Lukáts received 1st prize at the OTDK

His paper titled The Effect of Grade Inflation on Student Evaluations of Teaching received 1st prize...

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you are interested in the services of the HSDSLab or if you would like to join our group, then feel free to send an email to Roland Molontay, the team leader of the group, whose address is molontay@math.bme.hu.

Contact Address

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Egry József utca 1

Phone

+36 1 463-1111/5669