Curriculum Vitae
Personal
- Name: Gábor Vásárhelyi
- Birth: Budapest, 1979.03.13.
- Family status: Informal marriage with Réka Anna Tóth (three kids: Matyi 2010, Miska 2012, Momó 2014) and Anna Alma Nagy (one kid: Róza Piroska 2021)
Education
- M.Sc. in engineering-physics (2003): “Using neural networks for holographic and speckle interferometry”, Technical University of Budapest
- PhD in info-bionics (2007): “Design of tactile sensors and their elastic cover”, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Multidisciplinary Technical Sciences Doctoral School (dissertation)
Work experience
- 2006–2008 research fellow at the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science (MTA MFA), Microtechnology Laboratory
- 2007–2010 chief technology officer at TactoLogic Ltd.
- 2009–2015 research fellow at Eötvös University, Institute of Physics, Department of Biological Physics
- 2017–2018 senior research fellow at Eötvös University, Institute of Physics, Department of Biological Physics
- 2012– senior research fellow at the MTA-ELTE Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group
- 2015– chief executive officer of CollMot Robotics Ltd.
Awards
- 1997 National Secondary School Academic Competition (OKTV), mathematics, final round
- 1999 “Smart student, good sportsman” university award
- 2003 Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (TDK), physics section, first prize and Dénes Gábor special student prize
- 2003 National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (OTDK), physics of complex-systems section, first prize
- 2007 Prima Junior Award, informatics (science) category
- 2008 One of the 50 most successful young Hungarians (according to Napi Gazdaság)
- 2008 Ernst&Young Best Spin-off, Start-up Award (to TactoLogic Ltd.)
- 2010 Millenium Award of the Hungarian Patent Office (to TactoLogic Ltd.)
- 2013–2014 Zoltán Magyary Postdoctoral Scholarship
- 2015–2017 Bolyai Scholarship
- 2021 ELTE Innovative Researcher Award (as part of the drone research group)
- 2023 Mensa HungarIQa member
Research Topics
- 2002–2003 Neural networks, speckle interferometry
- 2004–2009 Artificial tactile sensors
- 2009- High-throughput automated ethology: using state-of-the-art technology for the research of collective motion and collective behaviour of animals
- 2009- Collective robotics, autonomous and self-organized drones, collective intelligence
Supervised Students
PhD
- Csaba Virágh, “Csoportosan mozgó egyedek realisztikus számítógépes modellezése”, 2023, PhD
- Balázs Boldizsár, “Natural synergies in collective behaviour for smoothly swarming aerial robots”, 2021, PhD
MSc
- Botond Kalocsai, “Axiomatic inference of group equivariant convolutional neural network layers and their experimental testing”, 2023, MSc
- Milán Janosov, “Group Chasing Tactics”, 2015, MSc
- Norbert Tarcai, “Flying robots and their collective behavior”, 2015, MSc
- Csaba Virágh, “Flying robot swarms - simulation and experiment”, 2013, MSc
BSc
- Tamás Jónás, “Collective search with self-organizing drones”, 2023, BSc
- Gáspár András Hegyi, “Kézmozdulat alapú drónvezérlés gépi látással”, 2022, BSc
- Botond Kalocsai, “Autonomous precision landing of a quadcopter using immage processing - theory and simulation”, 2020, BSc
- Tamás Szörényi, “Formation flight in two and three dimensions, 2014, BSc
- Csaba Virágh, “Flying robots and their collective behavior”, 2011, BSc
- Norbert Tarcai, “Collectively swimming robots”, 2010, BSc
Publications
For a full list of publications see the publications page.
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