Zoltán Simon
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I was born in 1999 in Lučenec (Losonc), in the Slovak Republic. Although my citizenship is Slovak, my nationality is Hungarian. I have taken part in numerous science contests since primary school. I went to secondary grammar school in Fiľakovo (Fülek), which town is my current place of residence. I am grateful to my mother, a primary school mathematics teacher, for my math skills, and I am equally thankful to my father, a software developer, for my programming skills. During my grammar school years, I focused on playing the piano. My efforts in the field of music were acknowledged in multiple regional and countrywide competitions. After grammar school, I decided to continue my studies in Hungary. I earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics at the beginning of 2023. In my B.Sc. thesis, I wrote about my volumetric rendering software, which can visualize CT, MRI, or other 3D datasets. As an undergraduate student, I gained work experience by working at Tata Consultancy Services for several months. Later, in 2022, I won first place in the university's Functional Programming in C++ student contest. During the M.Sc. program, my main specialization was visual informatics, and my secondary specialization was quantum informatics. During my university studies, I also worked as a teaching assistant. In 2023, I placed first at the university's Scientific Students' Associations Conference. In the summer of 2024, I had the opportunity to work as an intern at the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research in Budapest. I finished my master's studies at the beginning of the year 2025. Currently, I am in my PhD studies at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In my research, I use GPUs to simulate the time development of quantum mechanical systems in 3D space under the supervision of Dr. Balázs Csébfalvi, Dr. Péter Vancsó, and Dr. Géza István Márk.
