PÉTER ANTAL
Computational Biology and Medicine
Péter Antal (born 1971) is assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (Informatics Engineer) in 1995 from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Budapest. He was an international scholar and Ph.D. student between 1998 and 2002 at the Bioinformatics research group at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he received his Ph.D. degree. In 2003 he started the Bioinformatics courseat the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and has been teaching this and other courses related to artificial intelligence, statistics and bioinformatics. His research interests include artificial intelligence, statistics and bioinformatics, specifically knowledge and computationally intensive statistical methods. He is the author of more than 40 papers in international periodicals and conferences.

ANDRÁS ARADI
Beginners' Hungarian Course
András Aradi (born 1946) Language teacher in the Centre of Modern Languages at BME, since 1972; graduated from Kossuth Lajos University, qualification: teacher of Hungarian and English language and literature. Teaching activity: Hungarian as a foreign language for general and specific purposes on different levels; teaching applied linguistics, contrastive and functional grammar in the Translation and Interpreting training at BME; communication skills to Hungarian students. Research work: in the field of teaching Hungarian as a foreign language; in the syntax and semantics of Hungarian scientific texts; several publications on Hungarian descriptive grammar, and Hungarian studies; co-author of the Threshold Level Specification for Hungarian prepared under the auspices of the Modern Language Division of EC.

ANDRÁS ASZÓDI
Guest lecturer of Computational Biology and Medicine
András Aszódi (born 1964) studied chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest where he graduated in 1988. He then studied molecular neurobiology at the University of Oxford, supported by a Soros scholarship. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 on the kinetic models of simple learning processes. From 1992 to 1996 he developed protein structure prediction methods at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. In 1996 he joined the Novartis Research Institute in Vienna as a computational modeller. He built up the In Silico Sciences unit that provides bioinformatics and computational chemistry tools to researchers. In 2006 he joined the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna where he is currently developing data analysis tools and databases for high-throughput sequencing projects. He also teaches a systems biology course at the University of Vienna. He has 35 publications, including a book with W.R. Taylor on protein structure prediction.

KATALIN BAKONYI BERÉNYI
Beginners' Hungarian Course
Katalin Bakonyi Berényi (born 1952) Language teacher in the Centre of Modern Languages at BME, since 1978; graduated from Kossuth Lajos University, qualification: teacher of Hungarian and English language and literature. Teaching activity: Hungarian as a foreign language to foreign students studying engineering in Hungarian or English; to Erasmus/Study Abroad exchange students; teaching general, technical and business English to Hungarian students; Hungarian literature and film courses to Erasmus/Study Abroad students. Publications on teaching Hungarian as a foreign language, the methodology of teaching languages and cultural topics; co-author of the Coursebook for Advanced Learners of Hungarian.

GYÖRGY BÁRON
Hungary Through Hungarian Cinema
György Báron (born 1951) is a full professor at the University of Drama, Film and Television, Budapest and is president of the Hungarian Society of Film Critics within FIPRESCI. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of several institutions, including the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation, the Visegrad Documentary Library and the European Parliament Lux Prize Jury. Since the 1970s he has published more than thousand reviews, essays and studies, both in Hungarian and other languages. He has made educational documentaries for various television channels and he is the author of the books Hollywood and Marienbad and Descent to the Underworld. He received a Béla Balázs Prize, a Mihály Táncsics Prize, an Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic and a Necktie Prize (voted for the best teacher of the University).

ANDRÁS BENCZÚR
Data Mining
András Benczúr (born 1969) is a senior researcher of the Computer Science and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA SZTAKI). He is co-founder of the Data Mining and Web Search Group and head of the Informatics Laboratory. He has been teaching Algorithms, and Web Information Retrieval at Eötvös Loránd University and Statistics at Central European University (CEU), Budapest. He received his Ph.D. degree at MIT, US in 1997. His primary research areas are information retrieval, data mining and algorithms. He has been awarded the “Young Researcher Award” and the “Béla Gyires Award” of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He won a “Yahoo! Faculty Research Grant” in 2006. Benczúr’s group won 1^st place at the KDD Cup of the ACM in 1997. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 refereed research papers with over 200 citations. He has served as coordinator and/or principal researcher of several national and international information retrieval and data mining projects.

GÁBOR BOJÁR
IT Entrepreneurship
Gábor Bojár (born 1949) is one of the very few entrepreneurs of Central-Eastern Europe to have succeeded in global business during the era of state-socialism. He founded Graphisoft, a software development firm, which became one of the top three international software vendors in its field within ten years. Claiming the most prestigious awards of the trade, Graphisoft's leading product, ArchiCAD® is used by hundreds of thousands of architects around the world. Graphisoft was listed on the Frankfurt and the Budapest stock exchange and has been purchased by Nemetscheck Gmbh in 2007. Mr. Bojár remains Chairman of Graphisoft's Board of Directors. Mr. Bojár is also the founder of Graphisoft Park, a real-estate development that turned an industrial site on the bank of the River Danube into a state-of-the art science park. Mr. Bojár was also an adjunct faculty member of Central European University Business School, lectures internationally, and has published a book exploring the "Graphisoft story" with an analytic perspective.

In 2007 Mr. Bojar founded Aquincum Institute of Techology and dedicates most of his time and other resources to realize the mission of AIT. Mr. Bojár has received numerous national and international awards for scientific and business excellence. He has been named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the ten most successful entrepreneurs in Central Europe and by Ernst and Young as Entrepreneur of the Year in Hungary. He has also spoken at several prestigious events including the Davos World Economic Forum. Mr. Bojar obtained his M.S. in physics from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

PÉTER CSERMELY
Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
Péter Csermely (born 1958) received a Ph. D. in chemistry from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. His major fields of study are stress, aging and networks. He has launched a highly successful initiative that provides research opportunities for more than 10,000 gifted high school students, and has established a National Talent Support Council in Hungary. He is the author and editor of 15 books (including The Weak Links at Springer) and has published over 200 research papers. Dr. Csermely is Vice President of the Hungarian Biochemical Society, and an Ashoka Fellow. He was a member of the Wise Persons' Council of the Hungarian President, the President of Cell Stress Society International and a Fogarty and Howard Hughes Scholar.  He has received several other national and international honors and awards including the 2004 Descartes Award of the European Union for Science Communication. Dr. Csermely is member of the AIT board.

ANDRÁS FALUS
Computational Biology and Medicine
András Falus (born 1947), Ph.D. (1983), Doctor of Sciences (1990) and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2001. Dr. Falus is a professor and chairman of the Department of Genetics, Cell- and Immunobiology at Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary). His major research areas are immunogenomics, allergy- and onco-genomics. Recently, he has been focusing on non-coding DNA (e.g. microRNA) and microvesicles, a newly recognized form of intercellular communication. He has written and edited nine books (with publishers such as Springer, John Wiley & Sons, and Karger) and published over 340 research papers with over 3,500 citations. He is the former president of the Hungarian Society for Immunology. Falus was a fellow at Odense University (1980-81) and Harvard Medical School (1984-86), a visiting professor at Osaka University (1989) and Bern (Inselspital Bern, 1991). He organized the first International Immunogenomics (2004) and Immunoinformatics (2006) Conference, and is a founding member of the International Immunomics Society. He is editor or board member of five international scientific journals. Falus has been awarded the Szechenyi prize (2006), Neumann award (2006) and Semmelweis prize (2008).

GERGELY FAZEKAS
Hungarian Music in a Central European Context
Gergely Fazekas (born 1977), musicologist and music critic, is assistant lecturer at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. Studied literature and philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University and musicology at the Liszt Academy. For a year, he studied in Paris at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique. In 2005 he began his Ph.D. studies in musicology at the Liszt Academy, where he has been lecturing since 2006 on 17-18th century music history, Bartók and postmodern musicology. His Ph.D. thesis in preparation is entitled Musical form and the concept of time by Johann Sebastian Bach. Among his latest contributions are the study, ‘Musique laide et malsaine ou boussole indiquant un art plus pur de qualité supérieure? Les premiers temps de la réception de Debussy en Hongrie (1900–1918)’ (Cahiers Debussy, Paris 33 (2009), 33-50) and the conference paper, “Inner Time, Outer Time and ‘Da Capo’ Form. Structure and meaning in J.S. Bach’s E major violin concerto (BWV 1042)’” (The 14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Queen’s University Belfast, 30 June - 4 July 2010).

GYŐZŐ FERENCZ
Hungarian Literature
Győző Ferencz (born 1954), M. A. (1978), Doc. Univ. (1982), Ph.D. (1997), Habil. (2010),. Associate professor and former head at the Department of English Studies, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Acting president of Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts, Budapest. Besides teaching Győző Ferencz worked for Európa Publishers (1982-1993), Újhold (New Moon) Biannual Anthology (1989-1991) and Nagyvilág (Great World) Magazine of World Literature (1993-2000) as literary editor. He was Hungarian correspondent of "PHI" International Poetry Magazine (Leuven, Belgium) (1988-1992). He was member and for a period secretary of the Prosody Research Program Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1980-1993). He is member of The Hungarian P.E.N. Club (1980). His main field of research is twentieth century American, Anglo-Irish, English and Hungarian poetry, poetics, and prosody.
Győző Ferencz has written six collection of poetry, four books of literary studies and criticism, including an authoritative monography on Miklós Radnóti (2005, 2009), compiled, edited and text-edited over thirty anthologies of poetry, published some over three hundred and fifty research papers, essays and book reviews (also in English) and has translated extensively mostly English and American poets. Some of his own works have been translated into English.
Győző Ferencz was twice Fulbright Research Fellow at Oberlin College (Ohio) (1991, 1995/96) and has been guest lecturer and guest poet at several conferences. He has been awarded the Robert Graves Prize for Poetry (1987), The Hungarian Academy of Sciences–Soros Foundation Grant (1989), József Attila Prize for Poetry (2000), Artisjus Literary Foundation Grand Prize (2006) and the Pro Urbe Prize for Budapest (2010).

TAMÁS FLEINER
Graph Theory
Tamás Fleiner (1971) is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He received his Mathematics degree in 1995 at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and he got his PhD in 2000 at the TU/e in Eindhoven. His main research areas are Combinatorial Optimization, Combinatorics and its connection with Game Theory. At the BME and ELTE, he teaches inroduductory courses to Computer Science and Game Theory.

KATALIN FRIEDL
Algorithms and Data Structures
Katalin Friedl (1959) is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). She graduated from Eötvös Loránd University as a mathematician in 1983, and received a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Chicago. She has been teaching Theory of Algorithms at BME for several years. Her Erdős number is 2.
 

TAMÁS HAJAS
Guest lecturer of IT Entrepreneurship and Software Usability
Tamás Hajas (born 1960) is a senior consultant on software product Development. He graduated from the Budapest Technical University with an MSc. in Mechanical Engineering and received a postgraduate MSc. in IT Management from Central European University in Budapest. He joined Graphisoft in 1982 as student and made significant technical contribution to the development and success of ArchiCAD.  Starting as a software developer Tamás worked in several leadership positions heading the engineering team for 6 years with responsibilities in development, product management, quality assurance, localization, documentation and technical support. To see what's on the other side of the looking glass, he managed the North-American sales and marketing subsidiary of Graphisoft for a while.  After spending 3 years in Brazil and 4 years in the USA he is sensitive to cultural differences and ways of working with and selling to people of different cultural backgrounds and language.

GYURI JUHÁSZ
Software Usability
Gyuri Juhász (born 1962) is a senior consultant on usability and software ergonomics. Graduating from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1986 as an architect, Juhász joined Graphisoft in 1987. As a user interface designer, Juhász participated in the development of Graphisoft's leading product, ArchiCAD, a 3D architectural design and building simulation software. Subsequently, he established a special software design team introducing usability engineering methods to the development process of Graphisoft. In recent years, he has consulted for various organizations in the field of online banking, telecom and remote access and helped them deliver user-friendly systems.

GYULA Y. KATONA
Theory of Computing
Gyula Y. Katona (born 1965) is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University as a mathematician in 1991. Receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1997 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Katona spent two years at Ibaraki University, Japan. He also had a visiting appointment for a year at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 25 papers and co-author of a university textbook on discrete mathematics. He has been teaching Theory of Computing at the Budapest Semesters of Mathematics for several years. His Erdős number is 2.

JÁNOS KERTÉSZ
Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
János Kertész (born 1950) received a Ph. D. in physics from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. His research fields are statistical physics and its applications. His more than 200 scientific publications cover results among others on percolation theory, phase transitions, fractal growth, and granular matter. During the last 15 years he has dealt mainly with applications of the statistical physics approach to financial analysis and social networks. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Institute of Physics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2010 he was awarded the title of Finland Distinguished Professor and the Prize of the University of Siena for Interdisciplinary Teaching.

ISTVÁN MIKLÓS
Advanced Algorithms for Bioinformatics
István Miklós (born 1974) is a research fellow at the Rényi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University as a mathematics teacher and biology-chemistry teacher in 1998. In the same year he started his Ph.D. studies in the field of statistical alignment under the supervision of János Podani. He received his Ph.D. in 2002, and took a postdoctoral position at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. He returned to Hungary in 2004 and has been teaching various bioinformatics courses at several universities, including the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics and Central European University since 2001. His main research fields are Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, genome rearrangement and stochastic models in bioinformatics. He has 37 peer-reviewed publications, including four book chapters. His Erdős number is 2.

ANDRÁS LUKÁCS
Data Mining
András Lukács (born 1968) is a senior researcher of the Computer Science and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA SZTAKI). He is a co-founder and head of the Data Mining and Web Search Group. He has been teaching Data Mining at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He also helped create a new major in Applied Mathematics and introduces Data Mining courses. He received his Candidate degree (~Ph.D.) in Mathematics from the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1998, and took a postdoctoral position at CWI, Amsterdam. His primary research areas are data mining and combinatorics. In 1996-98 he served as managing editor of the international journal Combinatorica. He is also interested in applying data mining and mathematical modeling to the web, telecommunications, social networks and molecular biology. He is the author or co-author of more than 15 refereed research papers with over 70 citations. He has been coordinator and/or principal researcher of several national and international data mining projects from pharmacology, telecommunication, finance, and homeland security-related industrial domains.

LÓRÁNT PÉTERI
Hungarian Music in a Central European Context
Lóránt Péteri (born 1976), musicologist and music critic, is senior lecturer and member of the Doctoral Council at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. Graduated from the same institution in 2002 and also from Eötvös Loránd University, where he studied history, in 2006. As a postgraduate research student, he received supervision from the University of Oxford in 2004/05 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2008 with the dissertation entitled “The Scherzo of Mahler’s Second Symphony: A Study of Genre.” Among his latest contributions are the studies “God and Revolution – Rewriting the Absolute: Bence Szabolcsi and the Discourse of Hungarian Musical Life” (in: Blazekovic Z. and Dobbs Mackenzie B. (eds.): Music’s Intellectual History. New York: RILM, 2009); and “Form, Meaning and Genre in the Scherzo of Mahler’s Second Symphony” (Studia Musicologica 50 / 3-4, 2009).

ANNAMÁRIA RÓNA
Hungary Through Hungarian Cinema
Annamária Róna (born 1954) has worked extensively as an instructor of English and Hungarian at the Budapest University of Economics, at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, and with private language schools. She has also worked as a translator for Hungarian films subtitled in English, and participated in film shootings as a dialogue coach. She is currently teaching a course in "Film English” at SZFI (Institute of Theatre and Film) in Budapest.

ERNŐ RUBIK
Rubik's Workshop
Ernő Rubik (born 1944) graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics as an architectural engineer and began postgraduate studies in sculpture and interior architecture. From 1971 to 1975 he worked as an architect and later became a professor at the Budapest College of Applied Arts. He has lived his whole life in Hungary. He created the Rubik's Cube, a three-dimensional puzzle that became a worldwide sensation in the early 1980s. He founded Rubik Studio, where he designed furniture and games. In 1987 he became full professor at the College of Applied Arts and was appointed president of the Hungarian Engineering Academy. He created the International Rubik Foundation to support talented young engineers and industrial designers.

GÁBOR SIMONYI
Graph Theory
Gábor Simonyi (born 1963) is a research fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a part-time professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory of Budapest University of Technology and Economics. As an undergraduate he studied electrical engineering and he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1991 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Simonyi spent a year at Rutgers University as a DIMACS postdoc in 1992-93 and has also had visiting appointments in Canada, France, Germany and Italy. He is the author of more than 30 papers and a chapter of the book "Perfect Graphs" published by John Wiley and Sons in 2001. In 1998-2001 he served as managing editor of the international journal Combinatorica. He has been teaching graph theory at the Budapest Semesters of Mathematics for several years.

ISTVÁN L. SZABÓ
Cultural Program Consultant
István L. Szabó (born 1974) has been working as a guide and interpreter for 15 years. He obtained his M.A. in German studies and in Netherlandistics after studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, US; at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands; and at the University of Vienna. His fields of specialization are impressionism and the secession in Europe. He has been working for the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express for more than 10 years, and also at Abercombie & Kent, Exeter International, and Tauck Word Discoveries. He is also involved in the postgraduate education of professional guides.

PÉTER SZEREDI
Semantic and Declarative Technologies
Péter Szeredi (born 1949) is an Associate Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Between 1972 and 2003, he worked for several software R&D companies in Hungary. In the mid 1970s he authored the first Hungarian Prolog interpreter, and led the development of the MProlog system, a pioneering Hungarian software product sold worldwide in the 1980s. He worked as a research fellow at UK universities (Manchester and Bristol, 1987-1990) and at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (1998-1999). His main research fields are semantic technologies, as well as logic and constraint programming. He edited and co-authored a textbook on the Semantic Web to be published by Cambridge University Press. He is the author or co-author of about 90 peer-reviewed publications, including 14 books and book chapters. He is the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence of the John von Neumann Computer Society. He has received several academic awards and is among the 15 researchers recognized by the Association of Logic Programming as “Founders of the field of Logic Programming”.

DÁVID SZESZLÉR
Combinatorial Optimization
Dávid Szeszlér (born 1975) is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). In 1997 he was awarded as "Excellent Teacher of the Department", based on student feedback surveys. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University as a mathematics teacher and English language technical translator in 1998. He obtained his Ph.D. in the field of VLSI routing in 2005; in the same year, he was awarded the "Farkas Gyula prize" of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society for applications of mathematics. His Erdős number is 3.

LÁSZLÓ SZIRMAY-KALOS
Computer Graphics
László Szirmay-Kalos (born 1963) is a full professor and the head of the Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1992 and 2001, respectively. His research interests cover computer graphics, games, Monte Carlo methods, scientific and medical visualization, and the application of graphics cards for general-purpose computation. He has published more than 200 papers in these fields, including 24 books, 16 chapters, 50 journal articles, and 112 conference papers. He has worked as a visiting researcher or professor at the University of Minnesota (USA), University of Girona (Spain), and the Technical University of Vienna (Austria). He is the associate editor of Computer Graphics Forum and is a member of the editorial board of Computers & Graphics. He received a Charles Simonyi Award in 2004, a Bolyai Award in 2005, and was elected as the Fellow of Eurographics in 2008.

GERGELY VASS
Computer Vision for Digital Film Post-Production
Gergely Vass (born 1978) is a researcher and developer at Colorfront Ltd., one of Europe's leading digital film post-production facilities. He got involved with 3D computer graphics at the age of 14 and soon became a 3D animator and instructor. As the technical director at the post production studio of the Hungarian Film Laboratories, he worked on the visual effects of several feature films and commercials. Upon receiving his M.Sc. at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, his interest shifted towards research and development in image processing and computer vision. As a member of Colorfront Ltd. from 2000, he got involved with motion tracking techniques. Following the acquisition of Colorfont technologies by the leading 3D software company Autodesk, Vass joined Autodesk’s Image Science Team in Montreal, Canada. He developed various tools and algorithms for the world-renowned high-end visual effects product line of Autodesk, including camera tracking, shape tracking, image warping and video stabilizing. Vass is a regular contributor to Computer Graphics World magazine.

GÁBOR WIENER
Graph Theory
Gábor Wiener (born 1973) is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received his M.Sc. in mathematics (1996) and his Ph.D. in computer science (2003) from Eötvös University under the supervision of Gyula O. H. Katona. He got a NOKIA telecommunications research scholarship (1999), a young researcher scholarship at the Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1999-2002) and a Suzuki Fellowship (2009). He was awarded the Farkas Gyula prize of the Bolyai János Mathematical Society (2003) and the “Excellent Teacher of the Department” prize (2005). His fields of research are search theory, graph theory and hypergraphs. He has been teaching combinatorics, graph theory, and computer science since 1996. His Erdős number is 3.