CV

General Information

Full Name Kalman Joseph Szenes
Position PhD Student in Theoretical Chemistry
Languages English, French, Russian, Hungarian, German

Education

  • 2023-
    PhD Student
    ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Development of tensor network algorithms for applications in quantum chemistry.
  • 2020-2023
    MSc Computational Science and Engineering
    ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Specialization in computational physics with a focus on partial differential equations and high-performance computing.
  • 2019-2020
    Exchange Year
    Imperial College London, London, UK
    • Advanced topics in physical chemistry.
  • 2017-2020
    BSc Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Fundamental chemistry and engineering with a focus on physical chemistry.

Experience

  • 03/2022-07/2022
    Research Software Engineer Intern
    CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)
    • Implementation of Discontinuous Galerkin schemes for weather and climate simulations using the GPU-enabled DSL GT4Py.

Conferences

  • 09/2024
    Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting
    Fribourg, Switzerland
  • 09/2024
    CECAM Workshop on Tensor Contraction Library Standardization
    Toulouse, France
  • 06/2024
    Faraday Discussion on Correlated Electronic Structure
    Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK
  • 06/2023
    17th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry Satellite Meeting on Strong Correlation in Molecules
    Znojmo, Czech Republic
  • 06/2022
    Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) 2022
    Basel, Switzerland

Summer Schools

  • 08/2023
    Modern Wavefunction Methods
    University of Pisa, Italy
  • 06/2023
    International Summer School on High Performance Computing
    PRACE, XSEDE, RIKEN, SciNet, EPCC and Pawsey
  • 08/2021
    Summer School in Effective HPC and Data Analytics with GPUs
    CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Center)

Volunteer

  • 07/2021
    Tech Support at PASC21 Conference
    PASC Conference 2021
    • Aided in the logistics of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) 2021 conference by providing tech support to the online Zoom sessions.