Attila Kertesz-farkas
Professor at National Research University — Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolAttila Kertesz-farkas is a seasoned AI/ML researcher and professor with 20+ years in biotech-focused data analysis products and more than seven years in leadership and end-to-end product development. As Head of Laboratory at NRU HSE since 2020, he secured a competitive grant to establish and fund an English-speaking, multicultural lab of about 10 researchers, shaping strategic direction and promoting a meritocratic, collaborative culture. His research spans differentiable neural reasoning and neuro-symbolic AI, end-to-end learning with robust gradient flow, and production-ready ML for mobile sensing, IoT, and medical imaging. At the University of Washington, he co-developed the CRUX open-source data-analysis toolkit, widely used by thousands of scientists. His early work includes a Nature-published HIV integration study at ICGEB, and he brings a strong mathematical and CS foundation from Szeged with international experience across Europe.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus scholarship, Erasmus scholarship at Technische Universität DresdenPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Szeged
Github Skills (25)
database-sequence9
tandem9
shotgun8
mass8
mass-spectrometry7
sequence6
lime6
interpretable-machine-learning6
semi-supervised-learning5
xai5
machine-learning4
datasets4
supervised-learning4
fairness-ml4
database4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MrBhimani/crux-toolkit
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 4 months
kfattila/LZW-Kernel
Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
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