As a mentee of our lab, he was the only secondary school student to receive the nation's highest recognition for student scientific excellence at the 37th OTDK award ceremony.

Csaba Kiss and Artúr Vlaszov, two members of our lab showcased cutting-edge AI solutions and gained insights into the future of technology at the premier event.

Hannelore Nelissen from the LEER research group visited as part of our joint CELSA grant.

Six of our students earned two 1st prizes, two special awards, and two honorable mentions across three different sections at the Scientific Students’ Associations Conference.

The trip, supported by HUN-REN, included a seminar presentation and valuable discussions with leading researchers at the prestigious university.

Csaba Kiss introduced an XAI framework, developed with CryptoSoft, for predicting the early-stage success of new tokens.

Artúr Vlaszov represented our lab at the key event, focusing on the latest trends and business applications of artificial intelligence in the Hungarian AI ecosystem.

Our lab's PhD student shared insights from a longitudinal study examining the link between faculty research activity and student teaching evaluations.

Our colleague's outreach lecture, "From Data to Decisions," introduced high school students to how data science is shaping the future.

The study by Marcell Nagy and Roland Molontay achieved the highest Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and was the second most-cited paper of the year at the university.

The certificate for one of Hungary's most prestigious research grants was presented at the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Lab members and collaborators presented on topics ranging from healthy aging narratives and personalized lifestyle interventions to health industry startup success.

By emphasizing project-based learning, the flagship BME MSc course has become a hub for combining theory with practice, generating numerous student achievements.

The lab hosted an innovation booth, while Roland Molontay moderated a panel on data analytics and presented the NextARCH program at the ITBUSINESS event.

His talk, "Brands, Memes, Models," explored how data science is transforming modern marketing.

József Pintér and Csaba Kiss presented cutting-edge collaborations with EduDev and Nokia Bell Labs, highlighting the lab's impactful research.

Roland Molontay joined a roundtable on the role of AI versus human skills and helped introduce the new NextARCH training program, co-created by HSDSLab.

Published in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, the study introduces a new regression model to support clinical decision-making in uncertain cases.

The BIOMED-DATA25 Summer School and Conference brought together over 130 participants from four continents for a week of learning, networking, and collaboration.

The paper, which recently won a Best Paper Award, introduces an interpretable AI tool to guide high school students toward academic success.

Béla Bálint and Csaba Kiss presented their latest research on real estate valuation and semantic chunking at the MILAB-organized event.

The award-winning research presents an interpretable machine learning application to predict and enhance university readiness.

Roland Molontay and Csaba Kiss joined József Gróf to explore how AI is reshaping higher education and how to bridge the gap between academia and the market.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences' award recognizes his outstanding performance and will support his research applying machine learning and network science to social data.

The joint project will explore the complex factors influencing student evaluations of teaching, combining expertise in data science and education economics.

Roland Molontay and Csaba Kiss led engaging sessions on machine learning, LLMs, and computer vision for legal professionals.

The leader of HSDSLab shared insights alongside distinguished speakers at the Semmelweis University and CMF initiative.

Collaborative research yields a novel method to enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by extracting more coherent text chunks.

Her research on vision transformer-based hand gesture control, supported by the EKÖP scholarship, was recognized at Eötvös Loránd University.

Roland Molontay moderated a key panel on AI's business value and, with Csaba Kiss, presented on translating research into market-ready AI solutions at the ITBUSINESS event in Visegrád.

Csaba Kiss and Roland Molontay engaged in discussions on pharmacovigilance and text chunking, and presented lab research highlights.

Talented PhD holders are invited to explore innovative research in machine learning, network science, and socially relevant big data with us in Hungary.

His project on automated real estate valuation using interpretable machine learning and generative AI took top honors in the Expert Systems section.

Two talented high schoolers win second prizes in Educational Sciences and Knowledge Technology.

Donát Köller delivered a talk on data science applications in education research.

Join us for an immersive summer program featuring modern hands-on training, world-class speakers, and cutting-edge research in biomedical data science!

Our researchers analyzed banks' social media content and consumer reactions using machine learning.

In the groundbreaking study, our researchers analyzed the spread of innovation in social networks.

The study introduces AI models to predict in-hospital mortality for gastrointestinal bleeding patients, advancing patient care.

In January, we bid farewell to Maria Amaro and Ece Titiz, and this semester, three new international interns enrich the lab's team.

He received the award for his achievements in modeling the age distribution of longevity leaders.

Our researchers co-authored a landmark study cataloging the functional tissue units of human organs.

Strengthening Partnerships for Open Science and Future Collaboration!

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

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

The study introduces a novel approach to network classification.

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

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 with his paper titled "Examining the correlation between university instructors' research performance and student evaluations using data science tools"...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the Behaviour about the potential of artificial intelligence in higher education and the labour market....

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...

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

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"...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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"...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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