Szabolcs Horvát
Assistant Professor at Reykjavik University
Reykjavik, Iceland
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RockstarSzabolcs Horvát is an assistant professor and complex systems scientist at Reykjavik University with 14 years of experience building and documenting research-grade software. He combines academic research with hands-on engineering, contributing to core network analysis tooling like igraph (improving GML parsing and attribute handling) and maintaining its ports across ecosystems such as vcpkg and MacPorts. His work spans back-end development, build and release engineering, and technical writing—improving robustness, cross-platform builds, and clarity of scientific documentation for R and Python interfaces. Based in Reykjavik, he brings a rare blend of scholarly rigor and practical systems know-how, often fixing subtle parser and build issues that quietly improve reproducibility for network science users.
14 years of coding experience
Hungarian, English, Romanian, Chinese, Norwegian, modern greek, German
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Github Skills (45)
graph-algorithms10
macports10
c-language10
lib10
restructuredtext10
python10
network-analysis10
sphinx10
r10
graph10
rs10
cmake10
c1110
graph-database10
wolfram-mathematica10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
igraph/igraph
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Library for the analysis of networks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:680 reviews, 2552 commits, 479 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Szabolcs's commits focus on improving the GML reader and writer for the igraph library, including the addition of support for graph attributes. Their contributions primarily involve modifying code related to the GML parser, lexer, and tree structures. They also addressed issues related to handling of invalid inputs, and the handling of NaN/Inf values.
graph-analysismathematicsigraphcomplex-networkswolfram-language
igraph/rigraph
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
igraph R package
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:228 reviews, 99 commits, 83 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Szabolcs primarily contributed to the repository by improving and updating the documentation. Their commits focused on clarifying the existing documentation, correcting typos, and incorporating example code. This included updating function descriptions, fixing example code, and ensuring the documentation correctly reflected the functionality of the underlying code. Furthermore, the user addressed specific documentation issues and enhanced readability, resulting in more accurate and user-friendly documentation.
r-packageigraphcomplex-networksgraph-algorithmsgraph-theory
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