Dr Balázs Hornung (DPhil Oxon)
Data scientist
Staff data scientist, intellisense.io Ltd (04/2024 -)
Senior data scientist, intellisense.io Ltd (04/2021 - 04/2024)
Data scientist, intellisense.io Ltd (07/2019 - 04/2021)
Software developer, Interactive Scientific Ltd (02/2017 - 02/2019)
University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry, Oxford, United Kingdom
DPhil in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 2013
Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary
MSc (Honours) in Chemistry, 2009
o Using and implementing numerical analysis, linear algebra based, and stochastic optimisation methods such as genetic algorithms, neural networks
o Computational geometry: data structures, graph algorithms
o Writing pandas, scikit-learn and original utilities to statistically analyse data, such as anomality detection, clustering, classification, dimensionality reduction, regression.
o Analysing and visualising data using Excel, Origin and custom-written codes (packages: plotly, pyplot, streamlit)
o Programming languages:
o python (profficient; packages: graphviz, lxml, networkx, numba, numpy, pandas, scipy, sklearn, sympy)
o Fortran77/95/08 (profficient)
o julia (working knowledge)
o bash scripting (working knowledge)
o C# (basic knowledge)
o Mathematica (basic knowledge)
o Using version control systems such as git, SourceTree, gitkraken
o CI/CD: gitlab, kubernetes, docker
o Program documentation, including markdown languages
As a researcher, it has been essential for me to be able to
o Plan and conduct research projects individually and as a member of a team
o Assess the importance of, and relationship between, various sub-projects and schedule their execution accordingly for maximum efficiency
o Recognising and defining my role in a project, cooperate with group members
o Discuss results with fellow scientists and make decisions
o Full proficiency in English, native in Hungarian, basic in Farsi
o Preparing scientific and technical reports
o Presenting of results at international meetings
o Publication of results in prestigious international journals (Please refer to my Google Scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=24GUMC8AAAAJ)
o Supervising PhD students
o Mathematics for first year chemistry undergraduates
o Physical chemistry for first year biology undergraduates
o Developing software in agile environmento I actively contribute to the codebase of the company in python and C#
o I analyse business intelligence data using statistical learning methods to support the business planning process.
University of Bristol, School of Chemistry
Visiting Fellow: 02/2018 – 07/2019
Postdoctoral researcher: 02/2017 – 02/2018 (part time)
Postdoctoral researcher: 10/2013 – 02/2017 (full time)
o Leading the development and testing of improved theoretical and computational methods to model complex molecular processes
o Writing codes to perform statistical analysis of experimental and theoretical data
o Advising experimental scientists on computational methods and on interpretation of their results, suggesting experiments
Early state researcher, University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry
10/2009 – 09/2013
o Developing computer codes to model scattering phenomena
o Theoretical investigation of fundamental scattering processes
o Designing and implementing algorithms to process experimental data
o Long distance walking, trekking, bouldering
o Philosophy, social anthropology, sociology
o Joinery, cabinet making