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Where I come from

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Zsófia in BarcelonaA moment in Portugal
Interrailing journey
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I grew up in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, and moved to Debrecen for high school, where my early dream of becoming a doctor turned into a passion for mathematics and computer science.

That shift came when I transferred into the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) at Tóth Árpád Gimnázium and discovered how much I enjoy structured problem-solving. Even when Covid moved our studies online, my enthusiasm stayed high. I dedicated my free time to community projects, organizing a Christmas gift fundraiser with Mosoly Manó for children in need and writing letters to isolated elderly people through Letters Against Isolation. At the same time, I explored my wide curiosity through early research projects on capacitor calculations in electronic circuits and the economics behind the 1929 Wall Street Crash.

A moment in Portugal
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After high school, I moved to Portugal to study Data Science and Business Analytics at Forward College, an international program in partnership with the London School of Economics.

I finished my first year with upper second class honors and earned the top score in the university for Mathematical Methods with a 96 percent mark. During my time there, I worked as a Student Ambassador, helped Professor Sara Santos develop a foundational math bootcamp, and organized an induction week welcoming peers from over 20 countries to Lisbon. When offered a full-time, year-long Data Science internship at the college, I decided to take a gap year to gain hands-on professional experience.

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After my internship, I moved back to Hungary and started a Computer Science degree at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest.

Financial difficulties meant I was unable to continue the program's next phase in Paris, so I chose ELTE to build a stronger technical foundation alongside the data science and business skills I had gained in Lisbon.

A moment in Madrid
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My first Erasmus semester, at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, sparked my interest in Cybersecurity.

There I focused on hardware programming, operating systems, networks, and databases. This deep dive into low-level computer engineering led me to start self-studying network security on TryHackMe, which eventually grew into my current university research on AI coding security and vibe coding safety.

A moment in Slovenia
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My second Erasmus semester, at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia, is where I co-founded DropIn and rediscovered my passion for Data Science.

DropIn is an aggregated booking platform in Hungary, and I directly applied my coursework in machine learning and adaptive interactive systems to develop our recommendation engine. While exploring augmented reality, Unity game dev, and motion capture at the HICUP lab, I took an advanced Data Programming course in Python and R, which convinced me to pursue Data Science fully alongside my CS degree. Inspired by my machine learning classes, I also focused on computer vision and won the national NTP scholarship to build image recognition models for data-scarce environments.

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Today, I am completing a double degree in Computer Science at ELTE and Data Science in Business at Corvinus University.

I spent the summer working on my computer vision research and preparing DropIn for our official launch in November 2026.

A second moment in Spain

Moving forward, I am on track to graduate in Computer Science in 2027 and Data Science in 2028.

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