Principal Data Scientist & Tech Lead
Apr. 2022 – present
Equilibrium Energy · San Francisco, US (remote)
- Technical lead for production forecasting and optimization systems for energy trading in electricity markets.
- Built and deployed end-to-end decision engines: time-series forecasting, stochastic optimization, simulation.
- Built a proxy optimization engine that cut compute time 100x, enabling intraday strategy iteration and large-scale backtesting.
- Put experimentation and A/B testing into the production ML workflow instead of leaving it ad hoc.
- Strong contributor to the internal Python simulation framework the ML and trading teams both run on.
- Led and mentored a team of 4 ML scientists, while still building systems myself.
- Ran high-uncertainty R&D on scientific ML and generative AI for optimization and developer productivity.
Research Scientist
Oct. 2016 – Jan. 2022
TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) · Delft, Netherlands
- Led applied R&D on infrastructure reliability and climate resilience with industry and government stakeholders.
- Built probabilistic risk models and extreme-event analysis pipelines for flood and wind exposure.
- Brought physics-informed neural networks into structural modelling for predictive maintenance.
- Ran multi-year infrastructure-reliability projects end to end, across engineering disciplines.
- Built scientific software in Python, Julia, MATLAB, and R for forecasting and uncertainty quantification.
Data Scientist & Co-founder, humanitarian tech
Mar. 2018 – Aug. 2019
PNGK · The Hague, Netherlands
- Co-founded a data-driven humanitarian tech startup built on satellite-based risk and impact analytics.
- Designed and shipped geospatial analysis tools for climate- and conflict-affected regions.
- Owned technical architecture, partnerships, and contract execution across deployments.
Researcher & Teaching Assistant
2012 – 2016
Budapest University of Technology and Economics · Budapest, Hungary
- Structural modelling and reliability analysis for nationally significant infrastructure.
- Taught and supervised applied research projects in structural engineering.
Education
- PhD, Civil Engineering — Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2012–2016 (summa cum laude).
- Research stay — Czech Technical University in Prague, 2014–2015. Reliability assessment of engineering structures under extremes.
- MSc, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering — Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2010–2012.
- BSc, Civil Engineering — Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2006–2010.