Dr. Márk Szalay began his studies in Computer Science Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2010. During his BSc years, he joined research projects at HSNLab within the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics (TMIT), where he contributed to building the department’s first OpenStack-based cloud system and later focused on performance analysis of SDN‑enabled network devices. He received his BSc in 2016 and continued his MSc in Computer Science Engineering at BME, earning his MSc with distinction in 2018; in the same year, he commenced his doctoral studies at the university.
Throughout his studies, he participated in three Students’ Scholarly Circle (TDK) competitions, collaborated on multiple research‑oriented projects with Ericsson, and published a significant body of scientific work, including conference papers, journal articles, and demo publications. His primary research interests include hardware network device design (routers/switches/NICs), software‑defined networking (SDN), and the orchestration of user applications and data across cloud environments.
Márk has authored 25 publications and presented his work at eight international conferences. He has published in leading venues such as IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, the Journal of Network and Computer Applications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. His scientific achievements have been recognized with numerous fellowships and awards, including the University Research Scholarship Programme (EKÖP). Over the years, he has received several notable distinctions: he won the Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM in 2017, earned the Best Student Paper award at the IEEE CloudNet conference in 2019, and received the Best Paper award at the IEEE CLOUD conference in 2021. Beyond academic dissemination, his results have also been patented in collaboration with Ericsson. Dr. Szalay is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Networked Systems and Services (HIT), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.