Personal

• Address H-1078 Budapest, Hernád u. 8. I/1, Hungary
• Tel: +36-30-606-9771
• E-mail: szalaymate [at] gmail.com
• Web: http://www.linkgroup.hu/mateszalay.php
• Date and place of birth: 12th December, 1984, Székesfehérvár (Hungary)
  

Education

• 2003-2010: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Department of Informatics (Master's Thesis: Download it! )
• 1999-2003: Lovassy László Secondary Grammar School (Veszprém, Hungary)

Professional skills

• Programming languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, PHP, SQL
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
• Technologies: Relational Databases, Graph clustering methods, CORBA, Java Agent Development Engine (JADE), High availability

Language skills

• English: intermediate level of general language (exam in 2003)
• German: basic conversational skills
• Hungarian: native language

Working experiences:

• 2008- Software developer at Ericsson Hungary Ltd.
• 2010- Software developer at Semmelweis University

Organizational experiences and social activities

• 2008: Assistant, The 11th European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, Budapest
• 2007: Assistant, World Conference of Stress, Budapest, Hungary 2007
• 2007- : Co-owner and the coordinator of development section in Predinet Ltd.
• 2005: Member of the Microsoft – 2nd Information Worker Board of the Future (Budapest)
• 2004-2005: Student Managing President of the Hungarian Research Student Association
• 2003-2004: Student President of the Hungarian Research Student Association

Awards

• 2009: Scientific Student's Association Report - István Kovács, Robin Palotai, Máté Szalay: Novel methods for overlapping clustering of vertices of graphs, with biochemical, sociological and telecommunication applications. (National level - Second prize)
• 2007: Scientific Student’s Association Report – Robin Palotai, Máté Szalay and István Kovács: Novel methods for overlapping clustering of vertices of graphs, with biochemical, sociological and telecommunication applications. (BUTE - First prize)
• 2003: Golden medal at the 52nd Eureka World Exhibition on Innovation, Research and New Technologies
• 2002: Junior Bolyai Prize (with Robin Palotai)

Patents and research activity

• 2006    Kovács I.A., Szalay M.S., Csermely P. and Korcsmáros T. - Method for analyzing the fine structure of networks. Patent application number: PCT/IB2007/05047
• 2004-   Member of the LinkGroup research group of the Department of Medical Chemistry, Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary). Working in the field of network clustering methods and evolutionary game theory.

Publications

1. Kovács, I.A., Palotai, R., Szalay, M.S. and Csermely, P. (2010) Community landscapes: a novel, integrative approach for the determination of overlapping network modules. www.arxiv.org/abs/0912.0161 Preprint: www.linkgroup.hu/modules.php
2. Wang S, Szalay M.S, Zhang C, Csermely P (2008) Learning and Innovative Elements of Strategy Adoption Rules Expand Cooperative Network Topologies. PLoS ONE 3(4): e1917 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001917, Visit it at arxiv.org!
3. Csermely, P., Korcsmáros, T., Kovács, I.A., Szalay M.S. and Sőti, C. (2008) Systems biology of molecular chaperone networks. In: The biology of extracellular molecular chaperones. Novartis Foundation Symposium Series Vol. 291, Wiley, pp. 45-58. Download it!
4. Korcsmáros, T., Kovács, I. A., Szalay, M. S. and Csermely, P (2006) Molecular chaperones: The modular evolution of cellular networks. Journal of Bioscience 32 (3): 441-446. IF: 1,5 Download it!
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5. Szalay M.S, Kovács, I.A., Korcsmáros, T., Böde. C. and Csermely, P. (2007) Stress-induced rearrangements of cellular networks: consequences for protection and drug design. FEBS Lett. 581 (19): 3675-80. IF: 3,5 Download it!
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6. Böde, C., Kovács, I.A., Szalay M.S, Palotai, R., Korcsmáros, T. and Csermely, P. (2007) Network analysis of protein dynamics. FEBS Lett. 581 (15): 2776-82. IF: 3,5 Download it! Visit it at arxiv.org!
7. Korcsmáros, T., Szalay, M.S, Böde. C., Kovács, I.A., and Csermely, P. (2007) How to design multi-target drugs: Target-search options in cellular networks. Exp. Op. Drug Discovery 2: 1-10. Download it!
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8. Palotai R., Szalay M.S. and Csermely P. (2007). Chaperones as integrators of cellular networks: changes of cellular integrity in stress and diseases. IUBMB Life 60, 10-18
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9. Kovács I.A., Szalay, M.S. and Csermely, P. (2005) Water and molecular chaperones act as weak links of protein folding networks: energy landscape and punctuated equilibrium changes point towards a game theory of proteins. FEBS Letters, 579, 2254-2260.
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Posters and Conferences

• Korcsmáros, T., Farkas, I. J., Fazekas, D., Szalay, M. S., Rovó, P., Spiró, Z., Böde, C., Lenti, K., Vellai, T., Csermely, P.: Uniform curation of metazoan signaling pathways – resource and tool for experiment design and evaluation. ICSB 2010, 10-15 October 2010, Edinburgh, UK
• Korcsmáros, T., Farkas, I. J., Fazekas, D., Szalay, M. S., Rovó, P., Spiró, Z., Böde, C., Lenti, K., Vellai, T., Csermely, P.: Cellular signaling networks and their visualization. NetSci 2010 - The International School and Conference on Network Science, 10-14 May, 2010, Boston, USA
• Korcsmáros, T., Farkas, I. J., Szalay, M. S., Rovó, P., Fazekas, D., Spiró, Z., Böde, C., Lenti, K., Vellai, T., Csermely, P.: A signaling pathway resource for cross-talk analysis in C.elegans, Drosophila, and humans. FEBS Protein Modules Workshop, 5 - 10 September 2009, Seefeld in Tirol, Austria
• Korcsmáros, T., Farkas, I. J., Szalay, M. S., Rovó, P., Fazekas, D., Spiró, Z., Böde, C., Lenti, K., Vellai, T., Csermely, P.: A signaling pathway resource for cross-talk analysis in C.elegans, Drosophila, and humans. ICSB 2009, 30 August – 4 September 2009, Stanford, USA
• Korcsmáros, T., Farkas, I. J., Fazekas, D., Szalay, M. S., Rovó, P., Spiró, Z., Böde, C., Lenti, K., Vellai, T., Csermely, P.: Complex networks in the regulation of molecular biology (in Hungarian). Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Biochemical Society, 23-26 August 2009, Budapest, Hungary
• Korcsmáros, T., Szalay, M. S., Fazekas, D., Rovó, P, Spiró, Z., Vellai, T. and Csermely, P.: SignaLink, a signaling pathway database: theoretical and practical applications. FEBS SysBio Workshop, 7-13 March 2009, Alpbach, Austria
• Korcsmáros, T., Szalay, M. S., Rovó, P., Spiró, Z., Vellai, T. and Csermely, P.: SignaLink, a signaling pathway database: theoretical and practical applications (in Hungarian). Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Biochemical Society, 31 August – 3 September 2008, Szeged, Hungary
• Palotai R., Wang S., Zhang C., Szalay, M.S., Csermely P. (2007) Learning and Innovation Expand Cooperative Network Topologies; Poster, Third Yamada Symposium, Japan
• Palotai R., Kovács, I.A., Szalay, M.S., Csermely P. (2007) ModuLand, A Powerful and Extensive Family of Methods to Uncover The Overlapping Modules and Hierarchy of Complex Networks; Poster, Third Yamada Symposium, Japan
• Csermely P., Kovács, I.A., Szalay, M.S. (2007) Modular structure, learning and innovation of networks; International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks, Sovata, Romania

Hobbies and personal interests

• Reading books (classical, sci-fi, fantasy). Playing piano, harp and poker