Gábor Kertész (1988)

He is an associate professor and deputy dean for research at the John Neumann Faculty of Informatics of Óbuda University (ÓE). His research interests include applied machine learning and deep metric learning. He is the head of the Applied Machine Learning research group at the Faculty.

Since 2014, he has been the main organizer of the Hour of Code at Óbuda University, an event aimed at high school students and promoting programming (2022 with approximately 250 participants).

Since 2016, he has been the founding vice president of the Neumann János College, where lectures, courses and professional programs were organized for students and fellows. Since 2019, he has been a part-time research associate at the Parallel and Distributed Systems Research Laboratory of the Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI).

He is a member of several domestic and international organizations, including IEEE, the National Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he is the founding chairman of the High Performance Computing department. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences public body.
In 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022, he won the New National Excellence Program scholarship in the doctoral student, doctoral candidate and postdoctoral categories. In 2019, he was awarded the Hungarian Fuzzy Society Youth Award; in 2022, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences awarded him the “Young Researcher of the Year” award. In the same year, the National Institute of Physics awarded him the Kemény János Award.