Benczúr received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997, since then his interest turned to Data Science. He was representing SZTAKI as principal investigator in several EU and national R&D and industrial projects. He serves on the program committees of leading conferences including WWW, WSDM, SIGKDD, ECML/PKDD. He leads the Data Industry Working Group of the Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Coalition.

Selected publications

  • Ferenc Beres, Istvan Andras Seres, Andras A. Benczur, A cryptoeconomic traffic analysis of Bitcoins lightning network. Cryptoeconomic Systems (CES) ‘20 Journal & Conference 7-8 March 2020, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Z Zvara, PGN Szabó, B Balázs, A Benczúr. Optimizing distributed data stream processing by tracing. Future Generation Computer Systems 90, 578-591, 2019
  • R Pálovics, AA Benczúr. Raising graphs from randomness to reveal information networks. Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2017