Budapest, June 1, 2011

 

CV of Gergely Mádi-Nagy

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Place of Work:

Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science

 

Department of Operations Research

 

Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C

 

Budapest H-1117, Hungary

e-mail:

gergely@math.elte.hu, gnagy@math.bme.hu

Tel.:

+36-1-4632140 (work) , +36-20-9616494

Webpage:

http://www.math.bme.hu/~gnagy/index2.html

PERSONAL DATA:

 

Home Address:

Budapest  H-1124

Date of Birth:

May 6, 1973, Szombathely, Hungary

Marital Status:

Married, two children

Citizenship:

Hungarian

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

·        Department of Operations Research, Institute of Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Budapest, Hungary,

§         2009-        : Assistant professor

§         2005-2009: Part-time assistant professor

·        Department of Differential Equations, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

§         2009-        :  Part-time assistant professor

§         2004-2009: Assistant professor

§         2000-2004: Teaching assistant

 

VISITING POSITION:

·      Visitor at RUTCOR, Rutgers University, USA (thru April 2008)

 

EDUCATION:

·      Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics,  Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary (2002)

     Dissertation: Multivariate Discrete Moment Problems.

     Advisor: András Prékopa

   (In Hungarian: http://www.math.bme.hu/~gnagy/doktdolg.pdf Extract in English: http://www.math.bme.hu/~gnagy/thesis.pdf )

·      B.Sc. in Economics, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary (1998)

·      M.Sc. in Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary (1997)

     Thesis: Application of Quadratic Programming for the Portfolio Problem.

     Advisor: András Prékopa

     (In Hungarian: http://www.math.bme.hu/~gnagy/diplij.pdf )

·        Student for Informatics, Budapest University of Technology (1991-1993)

 

AWARDS:

·      OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) grant for young researchers “Bounding of functions of random variables”(2004-2008)

·      OTKA grant for the research project “Solution and applications of nonconvex and discrete stochastic programming problems” (2004-2008)

·      Gyula Farkas prize of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society (2003)

·      DAAD fellowship. Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany (2001-2002)

·      TEMPUS scholarship. University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College (1998-1999)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

·      Applications of stochastic programming

·      Multivariate discrete moment problems

·      Probability bounds

·      Mathematical applications in energy trading

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

·      In Hungarian. BSc courses: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Operations Research, Probability Theory.  MSc courses: Operations Research, Nonlinear Programming, Probability Theory, Microeconomics, Mathematics of Economics.

·      In English. BSc courses: Calculus, Linear Algebra. MSc: Probability Theory and Statistics.

 

Programming skills:

C, C++, Java, MATLAB, Wolfram’s Mathematica

 

Language skills:

Native Hungarian, English (fluent), German (basic)

 

PROJECTS, MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS:

·      Calculating optimal fishing strategies of the lake Bolsena (2002):

Common project of Universitŕ della Tuscia and Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences.

http://www.math.bme.hu/~gnagy/firenze.pdf

·      Potential applications of weather derivatives in Hungary (2007):

·      supervising in Student Research Conference (called TDK in Hungarian). 1st prize at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. 3rd prize in the national competition.

http://www.gtk.bme.hu/cgi-bin/hallgato/tdk_programfuzet.cgi?szekcio=KOZG02_06

·      Modelling telecommunication networks (2009-2010):

Common project of France Telecom and Eötvös University.

·      Optimal cover of open-positions in short-term energy trading (2010):

Module of energy-trading Informatics Platform of IP Systems LTD.

·      Market simulation and sensitivity analysis of flow-based capacity allocation method on the CEE electricity market (2011):

Modules of flow-based-capacity-trading Informatics Platform of IP Systems LTD.

·      Other small projects:

E.g., consumer segmentation in energy trading, ANOVA in balneo-gynecology research, simple risk-analysis for a security audit.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

http://www.math.bme.hu/~gnagy/publications.html   

 

Courses were studied as a postgraduate student for mathematics:

Combinatorial Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimisation, Convex Analysis, Integer Programming, Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Matroid Theory, Polyhedral Combinatorics, Stochastic Programming, Insurance Mathematics, Stochastics, Complexity Theory, Geometric Algorithms, Mathematica (programming package)

(The topics of most courses are on the http://www.cs.elte.hu/opres/courses.html page.)

 

Financial courses were studied as undergraduate student for economics:

·      Corporate Finance (Topics: Present value and the opportunity cost of capital. Risk and return. Capital budgeting. Financing decisions and market efficiency. Dividend policy and capital structure. Options, futures, forwards.)

·      Finance Theory (money-theory, finance of social economy, financial assets,  Hungarian specialities)

 

Courses were studied as Ph.D. student:

Linear Programming Packages (CPLEX, programming in MATLAB), Selected Topics in Nonlinear Programming (summary of the classical topics, Geometric Programming and lp Programming), Decision Analysis, Dinamical Systems, Expert Systems, Nonlinear MCMD Methods (about nonlinear multiobjective optimization problems)

 

Studies abroad:

·        Finance Theory, Futures and Options; at QMW College, University of London

·        Mathematical Finance (Black-Sholes model and its variants); at Imperial College, University of London