The easiest way to reach me is via email at balint(dot)mate(at)unige.ch.
about me
I started my undergraduate education in engineering at the
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
where I quickly gravitated towards the more abstract side of engineering, in particular control theory and nonlinear dynamics.
I spent the last year studying the chaotic behavior of power electronic converters.
After grauduation I started a master's in (applied) mathematics at
CEU with the idea of going deeper into control theory.
In my first semester, however, I had an introductory course about differental geometry that made me forget about the applied side
of mathematics and led me to focus on the fields of differential and algebraic geometry and topology.
I wrote my thesis about abelian Higgs-bundles with logarithmic singularities.
Next, I spent 2 wonderful years at the
University of Hamburg
to understand a bit more about how all this great geometry underpins theoretical physics.
While in Hamburg I also took a course on machine learning which I found so cool that
I am currently doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Geneva.