Curriculum Vitae

Experience

Doctoral Researcher at University of Oulu September 2024 — Present
Currently working on my PhD studies in Human-AI and Human-Robot Interaction.

Research Assistant at University of Oulu January 2023 — August 2024
Assisting Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction research at the Centre of Ubiquitous Computing,
development on the Pepper platform, leading summer interns and assisting teaching in Social Computing course.

Software Developer at IES Ltd. May — Aug 2022
As a member of the iCD team in Glasgow, Scotland, I worked on our extension for SketchUp using Ruby, C++ and React, used by engineers to simulate building-, and city-level energy efficiency, lighting, and occupant comfort.

Associate Lecturer at Webler Oktatóstúdió [Webler Education Centre] Aug 2020 — March 2023
As a lecturer for the Hungary-based school, I delivered Java SE, Java EE and PHP programming modules to groups of students online and supervised students’ final thesis projects.

Summer Research Intern at University of Reading June — Sept 2019
Full-time summer internship in Reading, England, research and development of a new module for the KNIME data mining platform using Java.

Web Developer Intern at Students’ Association of University of the West of Scotland, Nov 2018 — May 2019
Part-time web development internship, Paisley, Scotland

Private Computing Tutor, October 2018 — May 2023
Remote and face-to-face freelancer in Scotland. I privately tutored BSc and MSc students in various computing subjects such as DS&A, Programming Language Design, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity and HCI.

Android Developer Intern at Armin Trade Kft., May 2018 — Aug 2018
Full-time Android development summer internship using Java in Debrecen, Hungary.

Publications

Szabó, D., Yang, C. L., Visuri, A., Hosio, S. (2025, April) MindFort: Cognitive Inoculation via Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health workshop in conjunction with ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Ravishan, K., Szabó, D., van Berkel, N., Visuri, A., Yang, C. L., Yatani, K., & Hosio, S. (2024, December). From Voice to Value: Leveraging AI to Enhance Spoken Online Reviews on the Go. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (pp. 351-364).

Szabó, D. (2024). Robot-wearable conversation hand-off for AI navigation assistant (Master’s thesis, D. Szabó).

Education

University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 2022 — 2024
MSc Computer Science and Engineering, Applied Computing specialization track.

University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland, 2018 — 2022
BSc Computing Science (Honours). Awarded First Class Diploma and achieved A in all honours year courses, including Honours Project.

International Baccalaureate, Debrecen, Hungary, 2016 — 2018
High School (years 11-12) diploma. Higher Level studies in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Other Experience

Research Visit — The University of Tokyo
In October 2024, I spent one month visiting the Interactive Intelligent Systems Lab at The University of Tokyo, collaborating with local researchers.

Open-Source Software Development — MicroBin, github.com/szabodanika/microbin
Author and maintainer of encrypted file-sharing service written in Rust, used by thousands world-wide.

Digital Fabrication
3D Printing, Blender 3D, SketchUp, FreeCAD, KiCad, SMD soldering, embedded S/W development

Volunteering
From 2023 to 2025, serving as board member at University of Oulu’s student-led art society, Tapiiri Ry, performing secretary, design and IT duties.

Languages
Hungarian(Native Level), English (Native/Bilingual Level), Finnish (Elementary Level)

5-week Work Placement at Lenovo UK, Feb 2020

CCNA I, 2019
Obtained “Cisco Certified Network Associate Industrial” certification during Bachelor’s studies

Driver’s License, Cat. B, 2017