Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details:

First name: Zsolt
Last name: Darvay
Born: June 9, 1968
Wife: Eva Darvay
Children: Botond Darvay (Feb. 24, 1997), Zsuzsanna Darvay (Feb. 24, 2000)
Office: Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Position: Lecturer Professor

University Address:

Babes-Bolyai University
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
M. Kogalniceanu Street 1
RO-400084 Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Europe
Tel: +40-264-405327
Fax: +40-264-591906
E-mail: darvay@cs.ubbcluj.ro
Homepage: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~darvay

Home Address:

Fintinele Street 55 bl. B6, sc. II, ap. 76
RO-400320 Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Europe
Tel: +40-264-375080

Working Positions:

1998- Lecturer Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

1994-1998 Assistant Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

1992-1994 Teacher at the Bathory Istvan High School, Cluj-Napoca

1991-1992 Research scientist at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)

Didactic Activities:

• Object Oriented Programming  ( MID0002 )
• Advanced Programming Methods ( MID0004 )
• Design Patterns ( MID0016 )
• Windows Programming
• Interior Point Algorithms

Research Interests:

• interior point methods
• implementation of interior point algorithms
• programming languages
• object oriented programming

Papers:

• Zs. Darvay, E. Pataki. Object-oriented implementation of primal-dual algorithms in Matlab (Primál-duál algoritmusok objektumorientált megvalósítása Matlabban), In Bitay Eniko (ed.) Fiatal muszakiak tudományos ülésszaka, XVII, 91-94, 2012. ISSN 2067 - 6 808.

• Zs. Darvay. A predictor-corrector algorithm for linearly constrained convex optimization. Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Series Informatica, 54(2):121-138, 2009. ( pdf )

• Zs. Darvay: Egy új prediktor-korrektor algoritmus a lineáris programozásban, Alkalmazott Matematikai Lapok, 22: 135-161, 2005. ( matarka )

• Zs. Darvay: New Interior Point Algorithms in Linear Programming, Advanced Modeling and Optimization, 5(1):51-92, 2003. ( pdf )

• Zs. Darvay. A weighted-path-following method for linear optimization. Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Series Informatica, 47(2):3-12, 2002. ( pdf )

• Zs. Darvay. A new algorithm for solving self-dual linear optimization problems. Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Series Informatica, 47(1):15-26, 2002. ( pdf )

• Zs. Darvay. A short step algorithm for solving multiobjective linear optimization problems. Seminar on Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Preprint, 2:43-50, 1999.

• Zs. Darvay. Implementation of interior point algorithms for solving linear optimization problems. Seminar on Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Preprint, 2:83-92, 1998.

• Zs. Darvay. The Class Concept in the C++ Programming Language (in romanian), in the framework of the Tempus S_JEP 11168 / 1996 project (Restructuring the Retraining of School Teachers in Computer Science), p. 147-169, ed. Computer Libris Agora, Cluj-Napoca, 1998.

• Zs. Darvay. Affine scaling algorithms in linear programming. Seminar on Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Preprint, 2:69-88, 1997.

Books:

• V. Cioban and Zs. Darvay: Advanced Programming Methods. The C and C++ Programming Languages (in romanian, fourth edition), Ed. Presa Universitara Clujeana, ISBN 973-595-005-7, Cluj-Napoca, 2000.
• Zs. Darvay: Interior Point Methods in Linear Programming (in hungarian), in the framework of the Tempus Project for Applied Mathematics (No. S_JEP-11097-96), Budapest, 1997.

Scientific Organizations Membership:

• Member of the Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO
• Member of the Hungarian Technical Scientific Society in Transsylvania (EMT)
• Member of the Transsylvanian Museum Society (EME)

Conferences:

• Zs. Darvay: An adaptive predictor-corrector algorithm in linear optimization. In Proceedings of Abstracts. 17^th EURO Mini Conference: Continuous Optimization in Industry, held in Pécs, Hungary, page 37, June 29 - July 1, 2005.

• Zs. Darvay: A new Mizuno-Todd-Ye type algorithm for linear optimization. In Proceedings of Abstracts. Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms (VOCAL 2004), held in Veszprém, Hungary, page 18, December 13-15, 2004.

• Zs. Darvay. A new class of search directions for linear optimization. In Proceedings of Abstracts, McMaster Optimizations Conference: Theory and Applications held at McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, page 18, August 1-3, 2002.

• Zs. Darvay. Implementation of interior point methods using object oriented techniques. In Proceedings of Abstracts, Second Workshop on Interior Point Methods IPM-2000, held in Budapest, Hungary, page 14, July 14-15, 2000.

• Zs. Darvay. Implementation of interior point algorithms. In Proceedings of Abstracts, Third Joint Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science held in Visegrád, Hungary, page 21, June 6-12, 1999.

• Zs. Darvay. Software packages for solving optimization problems. In Proceedings of the CompNews 98 Conference held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pages 29-32, 1998.

• Zs. Darvay. Subspace methods for solving linear programming problems. Second Joint Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science, Ilieni, Romania, 1997.

• Zs. Darvay. Implementation of Karmarkar-type algorithms. CompNews Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1997.