Marton E. Balazs

Title: Doctor in Mathematical Sciences (Ph.D.)

Current Position: Instructor

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Department of Computer Science
100 Institute Rd,
Worcester, MA 01609, USA
email: mebalazs@cs.wpi.edu

Index

Education
Teaching Experience
Professional Experience
Awards and Scholarships
Membership in Scientific and Professional Societies
Publications

Education

• 1994- : Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science,.

• 1990-1994: "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj, Romania

Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences, January 1994

• 1976-1981: "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj, Romania

B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science

• 1972-1976: Computer Science High-school, Cluj, Romania

Teaching Experience

• Professional courses -

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Continuing Education Center, Worcester, MA, USA
• Programming in C and C++
• UNIX Sofware development tools


Research Institute for Computer Technique (ITC), Cluj, Romania
Central Institute for Management and Informatics, Bucharest (ICI) , Romania

• Programming in C and C++

• Undergraduate level courses - "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj, Romania

Analysis of Algorithms

Numaerical Analysis

Programming Environment and systems

                                        - Williams Col

Analysis of Algorithms and Systems (CS504)

Data Structures and Analysis of Algorithms (CS507)

Professional Experience

• 01/96- : Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Instructor (teaching graduate courses: Analysis of Algorithms, Data Structures)

• 12/95- : Peritus Software Services, Billerica, MA, USA

Software Engineer

• 01/95-12/96: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Research Assistant (project: serviceability of Computer Networks - Digital Equipment Corporation)

• 08/94-12/94: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Teaching Assistant (Human-Computer Interaction, Social Implications of Computer Science, Principles of Programming Languages)

• 08/91-06/94: "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj, Romania

Assistant professor (teaching: Analysis of Algorithms, Numerical Analysis, Programming Systems and Environments)

• 04/86-09/91: Research Institute for Computer Technique, Cluj, Romania

Senior Researcher (projects: A COMMON LISP Environment for 16 bit Minicomputers, Expert System Shell for Diagnosis, Frame-based System for Developing KB applications; teaching courses organized by the Research Institute for Computer Technique and by the Central Institute for Management and Informatics (ICI): C, C++)

• 05/90-10/90: IQ-Soft, Intelligent Software Co., Budapest, Hungary

Software Engineer (project: System for Developing Knowledge-Based Applications using Frames as Representation Paradigm)

• 09/84-07/91: "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj, Romania

Adjoint Lecturer (teaching: Programming Languages /Pascal, C, C++/, Foundations of Computer Science, Theory of Formal Languages and Compiler Techniques, Data Structures and Databases)

• 09/81-04/86: Heavy Machines Plant, Computing Center, Cluj, Romania

Application Programmer and Project Manager (projects: A Subsystem of the Plant Management System, Program Generation for Numeric Command Machines, Design of the LAN of the Plant)

Programming languages effectively used for software development

C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, LISP, Clips, ADA, PL/M

Languages known

Hungarian, Romanian, English, German, French

Awards and scholarships

• 1993: Fulbright scholarship - granted through the Institute of International Education - at the Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
• 1993: Research grant (one month) at the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary
• 1990: Research grant (6 months) at the Computer Science Department of the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
• 1981: "Best Graduate in Computer Science in Romania in 1981"
• 1981: Third prize at the National Student Conference on Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (presented paper: Convex Utility Functions in Solving Multicriterial Decision Problems)
• 1980: First Prize at the National Student Conference on Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (presented paper: A Compiler Generating System)

Membership in Scientific and Professional Societies

• Hungarian Technical-Scientific Society of Transylvania (EMT), Romania
• Romanian Society for Mathematical Sciences, Romania
• "John von Neumann" Society for Computer Machinery, Hungary
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Society (UPE)
• Sigma Xi American Scientific Society