Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Name: Balázs Benyó
Date of birth: May 2, 1969
Nationality: Hungarian
Home address: Csaba u. 7/B fsz. 8. H-1122 Budapest, Hungary
Home telephone: (36)-1-213-9196
E-mail: benyo@mmt.bme.hu

Education

1975-1987: Elementary and high school in Budapest (high school with special education in mathematics)
1988-1992: Technical University of Budapest Faculty of Electrical Engineering School on Information Sciences
1992: M.Sc. degree on Electrical Engineering specialized on Information Sciences
1992-1997: Scholarship of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Employment

1997-: Research fellow at the Department of Measurement and Information Systems at the Technical University of Budapest

Research and Development Experiences

1988-1989: Elaboration of an analysis program package for discrete and continuous networks. (DOS environment, C language)
1989-1990: Development of a memory handler program library for the PROFIBUS system. (Intel micro-controller, Assembly language)
1990: Elaboration of a neural network based EEG spike detection method. (DOS environment, C language)
1992: Diploma work development at the Department of Computer Sciences of Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. The title of my thesis is Fault injection based dependability evaluation. (Unix system, SUN workstation)
1993: Elaboration of a behavioral level hardware description based test generation system called Random Behavioral Test Generator. (Unix system, SUN workstation, C++, VHDL)
1994-1995: Elaboration of a new behavioral level hardware description based test generation algorithm known as Direct Component Testing. Implementation of the new algorithm on SUN workstation. (UNIX, C++)
1996: Participation in the SMN-OS project with SIEMENS ON TI, Munich, Germany. Telecommunication Network Management software development. (SUN workstation, Motif environment, Informix data base system, C++, X-Runner)
1997: Ph.D thesis writing, titled High Level Hardware Description Based Test Pattern Generation. The thesis is officially submitted to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on September 28, 1997.

Long Term Visits Abroad

1992: Four months at the Department of Computer Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

1993: Three months in the Digital Design Environment Lab of Department of Computer Engineering of University of Cincinnati

1994-95: Six months in the Digital Design Environment Lab of Department of Computer Engineering of University of Cincinnati

1996: Eleven months with SIEMENS ON TI, Munich Germany.

Awards

1989, 90, 91: I was awarded by the Scholarship of Hungarian Republic.
1990, 91: I won the scholarship of the Foundation of the Hungarian Credit Bank for the Hungarian Technical Development.
1991, 92, 93: "The good student and good sportsman of the Hungarian Republic" award of the Hungarian Republic
1992: I won the scholarship of the Department of Measurement and Instrument Engineering of Technical University of Budapest and get a possibility to spend four months at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg with the financial support of the PEREGRINATIO V. Foundation and the Foundation of the Hungarian Credit Bank for the Hungarian Technical Development.

Further activities

I am a rower athlete. My best results:

World Championship 16. place 1993
Champion of Hungarian Republic 1992,1993, 1994, 1995, 1997
Junior World Championship: 10. place 1987
Student Word Championship: 5. and 6. places 1992
Student Word Championship: 3. places 1993

Command of languages

Proficient speaker of English. (middle level Official Examination, TOEFL score 500) Proficient speaker of Russian. (middle level Official Examination).

I speak fluently German as well.

Family Status

Single. My mother is an electrical engineer, retired in 1996. My father is a full professor at the Department of Control Systems and Information Sciences at the Technical University of Budapest. I have one brother who is a medical doctor. Currently he is a researcher at University of Munich, Germany.