Personal:

Born: April 9, 1963, Ungvár. Permanent resident of Hungary. Nationality: Hungarian.
Mailing address:
Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, P.O.B. 63, H-1518 Hungary
Phone: 36-1-4665644/217; Fax: 36-1-4667503; E-mail: ruszinko@lutra.sztaki.hu

Education

Diploma in Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, 1988.
Thesis title: Coding and Set Covering Problems. Adviser: Prof. László Györfi.
PhD in Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1995. PhD thesis title: Extremal Sets, Codes and Search. PhD Adviser: Prof. Miklós Simonovits.

Current position

Senior research fellow, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Visiting positions

Visiting Researcher
(a) at the Data Transmission Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, 1991;
(b) at the Dept. of Mathematics, Bielefeld University, Germany, november-december 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1997;
(c) at the Dutch Research Center of Mathematics and Informatics (CWI), Amsterdam, Holland, 1993.
Postdoc fellow at the Dept. of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambrdige, Cambridge, UK, 1995-1996.
Visiting assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (1998-2000).

Fields of interest

Computer Science, Combinatorics, Combinatorial Coding Theory, Search Theory.

Teaching experience

Theory of computing at the Technical University of Budapest.
Probability theory at the Technical University of Budapest.
Discrete mathematics at the Technical University of Budapest.
Zero-Knowledge proofs at University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Discrete mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Integral calculus at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Random methods and structures, Eötvös University, Budapest

Language skills

Mother tongue: Hungarian. Fluent in English, Russian and German.

Awards

First prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Best PhD-Student Paper (1992).
Young Researcher's Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1994).
Young Researcher's Award, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995 and 1996).
Best Publications Award, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1998).