Curriculum vitae

Name	József Kovács
Birth	25 June 1975, Budapest, Hungary
Marital status	Married, 21 September 2002
Married to	Andrea Kovácsné Szabó
Children	Benedek Kovács (23 April 2003), Bernadett Kovács (30 January 2005)
Home Address	1214 Budapest Rakéta u. 22. 3/2
Mobile	06 30 29 077 29
Postal address	MTA SZTAKI, 1518 Budapest, P.O.Box. 63.
Office phone	(1) 329 78 64
E-mail	smith@sztaki.hu
Education
2002-2004	Ph.D. studies Hatvany József Phd School, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Informatics
1998-2001	M.Sc studies Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Faculty of Science, Department of Informatics
1996-97	Co-operative education of Central Research Institute for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Kandó Kálmán Polytechnic of Technology
1993-97	B.Sc studies Kandó Kálmán Polytechnic of Technology, Budapest, Hungary Faculty of Computer and Mathematics, Department of Informatics Specialized in Concurrent and Real-Time Computer Systems
1989-93	Technical High School of Csepel, Budapest, Hungary
Degrees
2001	M.Sc. degree in Informatics
1997	B.Sc. degree in Engineering Informatics
1993	Certificate on technical high-school graduation
Positions
2004	Guest researcher (4 months) Grid Middleware group, Data Management section, CERN, IT Department, Geneva, Switzerland
2002-2003	Assistant lecturer Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Informatics, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
2000-today	Research fellow Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
1998-2000	Software Engineer Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
1997	Software Engineer Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Central Research Institute for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Awards
2001	Young Researcher Award (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2001	Supervisor Award from the Faculty of Informatics at University of Budapest for supervising Gábor Ambrus and Árpád Lányi students who reached the 2nd position at the Research Conference for Students for their work entitled „Design of a resource management system for software defined radio environment”
Research trips
2002	The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia „parameter study” execution mode for parallel applications, 1 month
2002	University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Executing parallel applications by the Condor scheduler, 1 month
2000	University of Westminster, London, UK Preparation of TEMPUS educational material, 1 month
Single talks
16/04/2004	PVM & Condor checkpointing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (talk)
09/12/2002	Visual Grid Application Development Environments: Parametric & Parallel Models for Creating Distributed Applications, First Australian Grid Forum Workshop, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (talk)
28/03/2002	Design and Implementation Issues of Resource Controller in Software radio Environment, Workshop on Reconfigurability in Mobile Networks, France Telecom R&D, Paris, France (talk)
08/11/2001	Debugging in P-GRADE, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (seminar talk)
04/05/1999	GRADE graphical development environment for parallel programs, Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (seminar talk)
Research projects
2004	Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE): working on the design and implementation of a file-replica catalog web-service as part of the gLite Grid Middleware
2003-2005	Hungarian SuperCluster project: extension of the parallel checkpointing towards migration among clusters and towards native pvm and mpi applications.
2002-2003	Hungarian Supercomputing GRID (IKTA4-075): design and implementation of a checkpoint algorithm to enable the migration of P-GRADE application under Condor scheduling system.
2002	Cooperation between the University of Wisconsin (USA) and MTA SZTAKI: Design and implementation of the integration of Condor and P-GRADE systems.
2000-2002	Cluster Programming Technology and Its Application in Meteorology (IKTA3-008): checkpointing and migration of PGRADE generated parallel applications within a cluster. Based on it design of an initial fault-tolerant version.
2000-2002	CAST (EU5/IST-1999-10287): design of a resource management system based on parallel and distributed processing and design of intelligent decision maker algorithms for the procedural and management layers of a reconfigurable software defined radio environment.
2000-2002	OTKA (T032226): Graphical supervising system for geographically distributed, heterogeneous metacomputing environment.
1999-2000	P-GRADE (OMFB-00681/99): extending the DIWIDE distributed debugger with “Macrostep” systematic debugging method for the GRADE parallel programming environment.
1998-2001	TEMPUS: preparing educational materials for “Distributed Operating Systems” and “Distributed Object-Oriented Systems” topics.
1998	GRADE (COPERNICUS/5853): design and implementation of the DIWIDE distributed debugger under UNIX to support the GRADE parallel programming environment.
1997-1999	WINPAR (ESPRIT/23516): design and implementation of the DIWIDE distributed debugger under Windows NT to support WMPI (Patent MPI) applications.
1997	LOGFLOW: design and implementation of the MOGUL integrated graphical environment for supporting prolog in UNIX/X Window environment.
1997-1999	Participation in numerous bilateral projects with german, greek, portugese, austrian and polish institutes.
Teaching experiences
2002-2003	University of Miskolc, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Informatics Parallel and Distributed Systems I. Parallel and Distributed Systems II.
1999-2000	TEMPUS project: preparing educational materials for distributed object-oriented systems and distributed operating systems courses.
Research interest
	Parallel and distributed programming tools and environments Parallel debugging tools and methods Graphical programming environments Parallel checkpointing technics Clusters, supercomputers and GRID systems
Programming experiences
Architectures
	IBM PCs, PC clusters, SGI Origin series, Sun Ultra/Enterprise series
Operating systems
	LINUX, Solaris, IRIX, MS Windows & DOS
Programming languages and tools
	C, C++, X Window/MOTIF, JAVA, MS Visual C++, Pascal, Asm, Prolog, Perl
Language knowledge
1998	State Language Examination: English (intermediate level)