People and Culture

Research Leadership and Collaborative Teamwork

We are a research-focused group that combines deep systems expertise with domain-driven collaboration. Our culture values rigor, openness, and strong student mentorship.

Group Lead

Portrait of Dr. István Zoltán Reguly

Dr. István Zoltán Reguly

Full Professor, PPKE ITK

Institutional PI, AURORAI (PPKE) AURORAI WP4 Lead Vice Dean for International Affairs Head, HPC Group

Research focus: High-performance computing, computational fluid dynamics, domain-specific languages, and software-hardware co-design for heterogeneous architectures.

Leadership emphasis: increasing abstraction for domain scientists while preserving backend-level performance.

István is the institutional Principal Investigator of Pázmány Péter Catholic University in AURORAI, the Horizon Europe project on AI for pandemic preparedness and response (grant agreement No. 101290677). He leads PPKE's contribution, including Work Package 4 on behaviour-aware, AI-enhanced population modelling built on PanSim. More about AURORAI →

Open Mentoring Tracks

  • MSc thesis supervision
  • PhD research direction
  • Postdoc co-advising and project leadership

HPC Research Team

Group members working on our core high-performance computing research line: compilers, domain-specific languages, and automated performance optimisation.

Balázs Drávai

PhD student, PPKE ITK

Research focus: compiler-aided methods for code modernisation and optimisation.

Kevin Nava

PhD student, PPKE ITK

Research focus: automated performance optimisation through the OP2 and OPS DSLs.

AURORAI Team at PPKE

PPKE ITK leads Work Package 4 of AURORAI. The work brings together HPC, control theory and systems biology researchers from across the faculty.

Name AURORAI role Expertise
Prof. István Reguly Institutional PI (PPKE) · WP4 lead HPC, simulation engineering, PanSim
Dr. Péter Polcz Researcher Nonlinear control, data assimilation, hybrid ODE–ABM control
Prof. Gábor Szederkényi Senior researcher Analysis and control of dynamical systems
Prof. Attila Csikász-Nagy Senior researcher Computational systems biology, disease dynamics
Zsófia Práger-Nagy PhD student Epidemic modelling with PanSim

Team Profile

HPC Systems Researchers

Focused on runtime systems, backend optimization, and performance modeling for CPU/GPU clusters.

Domain Application Researchers

Working on CFD, epidemiological microsimulation, and imaging pipelines with reproducibility constraints.

Student Researchers (TDK/OTDK)

Undergraduate and MSc students are integrated into real projects early, often contributing to conference papers and competition-winning work.

Recent International Collaborators

Institutions

  • University of Warwick
  • University of Southampton
  • JAXA
  • AURORAI consortium partners across Europe and Australia (see list)

Scientific Collaborators

  • Gihan Mudalige
  • Neil Sandham
  • David Lusher

Interested in Joining the Team?

We recruit motivated researchers who want to build robust, high-impact computational methods.

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