BÁNYAI, Mihály

Name: Mihály Bányai
Address: Department of Theory, Wigner RCP, RMKI, HAS, Konkoly-Thege M. út 29-33, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Office: KFKI Campus, Building 13, Floor 1, Room 13.
Phone: +36 1 392 2222 x3257
Fax: +36 1 392 2742
E-mail: banyai.mihaly at wigner dot mta dot hu

Position: junior research fellow

Ongoing projects:

Organisation of signal flow in directed networks
Dynamic modeling of associative learning in schizophrenia

Studies

• 2000 - 2004: The Nagy Lajos High School of Cistercian Order, Pécs
• 2004 - 2009: Studies Computer Science at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Faculty of Information Technologies
• 2008 : Scholarship at Catholic University of Leuven
• 2009 - : Phd student in Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Research interests

• Network analysis and models
• Using probabilistic inference techniques to model neural data
• Cooperative reinforcement learning

Publications

• Négyessy, L., Bányai, M., Bazsó F. What makes the prefrontal cortex so appealing in the era of brain imaging? A network analytical perspective. ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA, accepted for publication, 2011.
• Tatjana Lončar-Turukalo, János Minich, Mihály Bányai, Fülöp Bazsó, Péter Odry, László Négyessy, Dragana Bajić, On Ramp Statisics in ISI Time Series 5th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, Budapest, 14-18 September, 2011
• M Bányai, B Ujfalussy, V Diwadkar and P Érdi. Impairments in the prefronto-hippocampal interactions explain associative learning deficit in schizophrenia. BMC Neuroscience 12(Suppl 1):93, 2011. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-12-S1-P93
• P Érdi, M Bányai, B Ujfalussy, V Diwadkar. The schizophrenic brain: A broken hermeneutic circle. Some new insights and results. The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2011. San José, CA, USA 3024 - 3027, 2011. doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033619
• Bányai M, Diwadkar V, Érdi P. Model-based dynamical analysis of functional disconnection in schizophrenia. NeuroImage 58(3): 870-877, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.046
• Bányai M, Négyessy L, Bazsó F. Organisation of signal flow in directed networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: theory and experiment, P06001, 2011. doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/06/P06001
• CD Gore, M Bányai, PM Gray, V Diwadkar, P Érdi. Pathological Effects of Cortical Architecture on Working Memory in Schizophrenia. Pharmacopsychiatry 43(Suppl 1)592-597
• M. Bányai, T. Nepusz, L. Négyessy, F. Bazsó Convergence properties of some random networks, 7-th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), 2009, Subotica, Serbia.241-245, 2009. doi:10.1109/SISY.2009.5291157

Born: 6th June, 1986, Pécs, Hungary
Languages: English (intermediate), French (basic)