Personal data

• Name: Gábor Simkó
• Date of birth: 22th September, 1984
• Place of birth: Szombathely
• Nationality: Hungarian
• Family status: Unmarried
• E-mail:

Education

• 1999 - 2003: Nagy Lajos Grammar School, Szombathely
• 2003 - 2008: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  Computer Science (Technical Informatics)
• 2007 -: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  Biomedical Engineering

Presentations

• Simk� G. Clavicle detection, suppression and nodule detection on chest radiograph images, 4th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conf. EMBEC'08

Honors and awards

• Prime Minister's Fellowship (2002)
• Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary (2009)
• University Professional Scholarship, BUTE (2008/II.)
• University Professional Scholarship, BUTE (2009/I.)
• Scholarship of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (2008/II.)
• Scholarship of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (2009/I.)

Club memberships

• Hungarian Research Student Movement (Club of the most prominent hungarian students)
• Bolyai Workshop (Institute for the most talented students of Hungary)
• Society of Young Hungarian Scientists
• Eligible to be member of Mensa club (passed the Mensa IQ test >=135, top 1% of population)
• AEGEE - European Students Forum (cooperation amongst young people in Europe)
• LINK-Group (Network research group)

Competitons (partial list, only the most important national and international results)

• 1999: 8^th place János Arany National Grammar Competition
• 1999: Finalist József Öveges National Physics Competition
• 1999: 13^th place Hungarian National KENGURU Math Competition
• 1999: 36^th place Tihamér Nemes National Programming Competition
• 2000: Finalist Tihamér Nemes National Programming Competition
• 2001: 2^nd place László Kalmár National Informatics Competition
• 2001: 36^th place National Gordiusz Math Test Competition
• 2001: 56^th place Tihamér Nemes National Programming Competition
• 2002: 13^th place Tihamér Nemes National Programming Competition
• 2002: 35^th place National Gordiusz Math Test Competition
• 2002: Bronze medal International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)
• 2002: 24^th place Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI)
• 2002: 1^st place XI. Hungarian Scientific and Innovation Contest for Youth
• 2003: Emphasized Commendation award XII. Hungarian Scientific and Innovation Contest
• 2007: 2^nd place Research student conference, BUTE
• 2007: 10^th place International Challenge 24 Programming Contest
• 2008: in top 1000 Google International Coding Competition (quarter-finalist)
• 2008: in top 200 Microsoft International Imagine Cup Algorithm Contest (semifinalist)
• (1^st to 3^rd place on 22 county contests in Math, Physics, Informatics, Tennis, Table-soccer and Chess)

Work experience

• 11/2003 – 10/2004: Codeland Ltd.
  CAD (doors and windows designer) software developer, 3D rendering
• 04/2004 – 12/2007: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Image and Pattern Analysis Group
  Consultant: Chetverikov Dmitry
  Stereo photograph based scene reconstruction
  Object categorization on photographs
  Feature points localization on photographs
  Image stitching
  Real-time video stitching
  Physical modelling and rendering of smoke
• 04/2005 – 10/2005: Holografika Ltd.
  Developing file format for 3D video and video rendering
• 03/2006 – 06/2006: Radisson SAS Hotel
  Video installation at the entrance
• 09/2006 – 06/2008: Budapest University of Technology And Economics
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
  Consultant: Dr. Gábor Horváth
  Chest radiograph image analysing
• 07/2007 – 06/2008: Innomed Medical Inc.
  Computer Aided Diagnoses software
• 02/2009 – LINK-Group, network research of aging

Professional skills

• Programming languages: C, C++ (since 1998), C#, Matlab, ProLog, Sml, Java, Assembly, Promela (Spin, LTL model-control), Pascal, J2ME, SQL, XSQL, PHP, DNAnet, UML, ASP .NET, LaTeX
• Operating systems: Linux Debian/Gentoo/Redhat/Suse, Windows 95/98, Windows XP, SunOS
• Algorithms experiences: PPCA, SVM, ANN, RANSAC, GIST (Gradient Image Stitching), CG (Conjugate Gradient), SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature – David Lowe), MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Region – Jiri Matas), SalScale (Scale Saliency - Timor Kadir), Octree, KD-Tree, ASM (Active Shape Modelling), ACM (Active Contour Modelling), Radon/Hough transformation
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS exams):
  • .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications
  • .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applicati

Language skills

• English: High level skills
• German: Basic reading and writing skills
• Italian: Basic reading skills
• Hungarian Native language

Licenses

• Driving license Category B

Hobbies

• Playing guitar (classic and electric)
• Skiing, bodybuilding
• Table soccer, darts
• Speed cubing (Rubik cube)

Publications

1. Simkó, G. I., Gyurkó, D., Veres, D. V., Nánási, T. and Csermely, P. (2009) Network strategies to understand the aging process and help age-related drug design. www.arxiv.org/0908.4508 Genome Medicine 1, 90
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2. Horváth G., Orbán G., Horváth Á., Simkó G., Pataki B., Máday P., Juhász S., Horváth Á.: A CAD System for Screening X-ray Chest Radiography, 11th World Congress on Med. Phy., Germany, 2009.
3. Simkó G., Orbán G., Máday P., and Horváth G. Elimination of clavicle shadow to help automatic lung nodule detection on chest radiographs, In Proc. IFMBE, volume 22, pages 488-491, 2008
4. Horváth G., Juhász S. and Simkó G. CAD-rendszerek a tüdőszűrés hatékonyságának javítására. IME Képalkotó különszám, VII. évfolyam, 2008
5. Simkó G. and Bicskei L.: Localization and elimination of interfering factors on chest radiograph images, 2007