About

Date of Birth: November 18, 1983
Citizenship: Hungarian
Email: miklos.palfia’at’uni-corvinus’dot’hu

Research Interests

Functional analysis, Operator Theory, Probability Theory, Differential Geometry, Metric Geometry

Supervision

MSc:

  • Taehyun Hwang, Sungkyunkwan University, 2016-2019.
  • Kolos Markulik, Corvinus University of Budapest, 2025-

Students’ Scientific Association (TDK):

  • Bence Á. Bodor, Corvinus University of Budapest, 2025

PhD:

  • Hedvig Gál, Corvinus University of Budapest, 2023-

Postdoctoral:

  • Marcell Gaál, University of Szeged, 2018-2020.

Editorial Work

  • Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 2022-
  • Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 2019-2020.
  • Invited guest editor of the proceedings issue of the 2017 ILAS meeting in Linear Algebra and its Applications.

Awards

Academic Positions

Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Mathematics, Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems, Hungary:

  • Associate Professor, September 2021-

University of Szeged, Functional Analysis Research Group, Bolyai Institute, Hungary:

  • Research Fellow, January 2018-

Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Republic of Korea:

  • Research Professor, February 2016-2022

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, MTA-DE “Lendület” Functional Analysis Research Group:

  • Research fellow, January 2016-December 2017

Kyoto University, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Japan:

  • JSPS international research fellow, October 2014-December 2015
  • SGU research fellow, September 2014-October 2014
  • Canon research fellow, September 2013-August 2014

Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Republic of Korea:

  • Assistant Professor, February 2013-September 2013

Yeungnam University, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Republic of Korea:

  • Assistant Professor, February 2012-February 2013

Research grants

  • Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH, ADVANCED Grant No. 150059, 2025-2029, budget: 105803 EUR. PI.
  • Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund and financed under the TKP2021-NVA funding scheme, Project no. TKP2021-NVA-09. Member.
  • János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Grant No. BO/00998/23/3, 2023-2026, budget: 23000 EUR. PI.
  • Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH, Grant No. ÚNKP-23-5, 2023-2024, budget: 3000 EUR. PI.
  • National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP) (No. 2019R1C1C1006405), 2019-2022, budget: 140000 EUR. PI.
  • Grant of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), Grant No. FK128972, 2018-2022, budget: 38424 EUR. PI.
  • NRF National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government No. 2016R1C1B1011972, 2016-2019, budget: 120517 EUR. PI.
  • National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP) (No. 2015R1A3A2031159), 2016-2021, budget: 2,250,000 USD. Member.
  • JSPS research fellowship grant No. 14F04320, 2014-2016, budget: 84000 EUR. PI.
  • SGU grant of Kyoto University, 2014.
  • Canon research fellowship of the Canon Foundation, 2013-2014, budget: 25400 EUR. PI.

Fellowships

  • Ph.D. Candidate Fellowship, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2010-2011.
  • Full CEU Fellowship, Central European University, 2009-2011.

Software Engineering Projects & Further Working Experience

I have been programming in various languages since Grammar School. My interest was mostly in high-level languages such as Java and C++, but I also have an experience in assembly as well. I have used several APIs in Java (AWT, Swing, JDBC, servlet, JNI, etc.) and in Microsoft environment (DirectX, OpenGL, LDAP). Later I gained experience in website building where I developed frameworks in php for website and record administration for smaller firms, I worked with several Linux based technologies.

  • From December 2011-February 2012 I worked at LeasePlan Hungary Plc. as a Risk Controller. My job was to build a statistical model to predict the value of used cars on the Hungarian market. The result of my work was a model which introduced a new function to estimate the remainder value of used cars based on their age and mileage. My model provided a more accurate prediction compared to earlier models for cars that have been leased for a longer period.
  • Between 2007 and 2009 I have been part of several website projects. I programmed mostly in php using techniques as JavaScript, AJAX, MySQL, ffmpeg, Adobe Flash, etc. I developed a php based framework for website and database maintenance which were used in all of the projects. Some of the projects are collected in the following list:
    1. http://www.companysolutions.hu/
    2. http://www.jewave.com/
    3. http://www.belnatur.hu/
    4. http://www.zaborszkygabor.com/
    5. http://www.metaforumfilm.hu/
    6. http://www.oldcinema.hu/
  • In the Summer of 2007 I have worked for Swietelsky Magyarország Kft. We built ethernet networks and I wrote programs in C++ to extract information from the corporate LDAP database and publish the information in Excel worksheets.
  • As an undergraduate electric engineer my thesis is built around the development of a new rendering technique of virtual 3D words. I have worked on this project for more than a year. The engine was a solution between incremental rendering of plane surfaces and ray-tracing techniques. It were able to directly render B-spline surfaces (without tesselation) which required the development of efficient algorithms. The program was a win32 application and was written in C++ using DirectX technology. This project won the MATE thesis award in 2007.
  • In the Summer of 2002 I have worked on a project for a real estate agency. The task was to develop a software for keeping the records of real estates. The software was developed in Java using the JDBC API. I also developed a webpage in asp which could be used to search in the database which was maintained by the Java software.
  • In July 2000 I have worked at DUNAHOLDING Informatikai Stúdió Kft. I have been programming in Perl and HTML and developed a webpage, which is built around a large real estate database OriGo. After the basic functions of the webpage were up and running, I have written an applet in Java which extracted and displayed statistical information from the database.
  • During Grammar School my first complex programming projects were in Java, I have developed a graphics 3D engine which could render virtual words using incremental rendering of polygonal surfaces. The second project was a fractal rendering software. It could render the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets and other various fractals which are defined on the complex plane. Later part of a university project I expanded this fractal renderer with additional database functionality.

Education