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Peter Koncz

Current position

I'm currently working as a Senior Data Analyst at NESS Košice.




Studies

2010-2016

PhD studies in the field of business information systems at KKUI FEI TUKE. The topic of my dissertation thesis was Aspect-based sentiment analysis.

2008-2010

Master degree studies in field of artificial intelligence at KKUI FEI TUKE. I finished the studies with honors. The topic of my diploma thesis was Categorisation system for support of collective annotation of internet resources.

2004-2009

Master degree studies in field of psychology at The Faculty of Arts of Prešov University.                I finished the studies with honors. The topic of my diploma thesis was Approximation of missing data in psychological questionnaires by artificial neural networks.

2005-2008

Bachelor degree in field of cybernetics at The Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University in Kosice (KKUI FEI TUKE). The topic of my bachelor thesis was Semiautomatic creation of recherches from internet resources.

 


Work experience

2016

Senior data analyst at NESS Košice.

2015-2016

System engineer at FPT.

2012-2015

Scientific and research employee at the Faculty of Economics of TUKE within the Urban Sensing project.

2010-2015

Internal PhD student in the field of business information systems at KKUI FEI TUKE. During this period I had many contracts related to below mentioned projects.

2009-2010

Research assistant within HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) at Faculty of Medicine, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice.

As a student I worked as web application developer.

 

Pedagogic

Teaching:

-          Knowledge management - 4 years

-          Knowledge discovery - 3 years

-          Computers and Algorithms - 1 year

-          Applications of Database systems - 1 year

-          Applied programming - 1 year

Consultations:

-          11 diploma thesis

-          8 bachelor thesis

Within the frame of “mine::YourFuture” project I have developed a portal, which provides a knowledge base for the subject Knowledge discovery and within it I placed a set of short tutorials related to software RapidMiner.

 


Scientific Projects

2012-2015

Urban Sensing. A European project, which aims to develop a platform for analysis of user generated content (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc.) related to cities. Within the project  I am responsible for the analysis of text of particular contributions by methods of natural language processing. I developed in JAVA.

2014-2015

Modern infometric methods for evaluation of scientific research (bilateral APVV project no. SK-CZ-2013-0062).

2015

HBSC (Health Behaviour in School Aged Children). Within the project I created application for processing of data from questionnaires and managed the process of creation of the national database. Created application was written in PHP.

2013-2015

IT tools and services for analysis of different types of processes, Pilot project no. 4 within activity 3.1 "Pilot projects in the field of information and communication technologies" of the project of University scientific park Technicom. Within the project I worked on development of a tool for topic identification and sentiment analysis. At the same time I developed a REST interface for mobile platform.

2012-2015

Methods of analysis of collaborative processes realized through information systems (VEGA project no. 1/1147/12).

2012

mine::YourFuture was a project founded by Nadácia Tatra banky within its program Education Quality. Within the project we created a knowledge base for the subject Knowledge discovery and a series of video tutorials.

2011-2014

TRA-DICE (Cognitive travelling the word of web and libraries with support of personalized services and social networks) - (APVV-0208-10).

2011-2013

Virtual laboratory of business information systems- project KEGA (065TUKE-4/2011)

2010-2013

Information technologies for knowledge transfer (IT4KT) – project of European union structural founds, Operational Programme Research and Development (ITMS 26220220123).

2009-2010

HBSC (Health Behaviour in School Aged Children). Within the project I also created an application for processing of data from questionnaires and managed the process of creation of the national database. The created application was written in PHP.

2010

Online Banking Reputation Manager. This project was founded by Nadácia Tatra banky within its grant program E-talent and it aims to process the evaluations of banks products by methods of sentiment analysis.

Besides mentioned projects I participated on the creation of several project proposals of potential European projects.

 


Programming skills

JAVA

Advanced level. Currently the main programing language I'm using.

PHP

Advanced level. I used it as a web applications developer for several years.

C

Intermediate level. I taught the subject Computers and algorithms in this language.

SQL and NoSQL

Advanced level. I taught SQL and used it in the many of my projects. I primarily used MySQL database, but I have also worked with Postgres or Oracle. Besides the relational databases, I also used MongoDB, Elasticsearch and AWS DynamoDB as a NoSQL databases.

JavaScript

Basic level. I have been working with JavaScript for several years, but mostly I only edited the existing code.

HTML, CSS, XML

Advanced level.

Matlab

Advanced level. I created several applications, some of them including GUI and most of simulations in my diploma thesis from psychology were based on Matlab.

Lisp

Basic level. I passed two subjects in Lisp, were also multiple programming tasks were done.

Prolog

Basic level. I passed the subject Logical programming.

 

Administrator skills and software usage skills

Among others I have experience with the following applications:

-          IntelliJ IDEA,

-          Eclipse,

-          RapidMiner,

-          IBM SPSS Statistics,

-          SAS Enterprise Miner,

-          Adobe Photoshop,

-          Standard program equipment such as Microsoft Office.

I administrate several real and virtual servers on Linux as well as Windows platform.

I administrate several web domains.

I have extensive experience with Amazon services, used in our projects.

 

Language skills

 

Understanding

Speech

Writing

 

Listening

Reading

Spoken

 interaction

Spoken

verbal production

 

English language

B2

Independent user

B2

Independent user

B2

Independent user

B2

Independent user

B2

Independent user

German language

A2

Basic user

A2

Basic user

A2

Basic user

A2

Basic user

A2

Basic user

 


Research

My research topics are (confirmed on ResearchGate):

-          Advanced machine learning

-          Data mining and knowledge discovery

-          Information extraction

-          Semantic web

-          Web mining

-          Knowledge discovery

-          Sentiment Analysis

-          Text mining

I’m the author or co-author of the following publications:

[1] P. Koncz and J. Paralič, “Active Learning Enhanced Document Annotation for Sentiment Analysis,” in Availability, Reliability, and Security in Information Systems and HCI, A. Cuzzocrea, C. Kittl, D. E. Simos, E. Weippl, and L. Xu, Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 345–353.

[2] M. Smatana and P. Koncz, “Active learning enhanced semi-automatic annotation tool for aspect-based sentiment analysis,” in SISY 2013: IEEE 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics, 2013, pp. 191–194.

[3] P. Koncz and J. Paralic, “An approach to feature selection for sentiment analysis,” in Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES), 2011 15th IEEE International Conference on, Poprad, Slovakia, 2011, vol. 15, pp. 357–362.

[4] M. Smatana, P. Koncz, and J. Paralič, “Anotačný nástroj pre podporu aspektovo-orientovanej analýzy sentimentu s využitím aktívneho učenia,” in Datakon a Znalosti 2013, Ostrava, 2013, pp. 113–116.

[5] K. Hilovská and P. Koncz, “Application of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining Techniques to Financial Markets,” ACTA VŠFS, pp. 62–76, 2012.

[6] P. Koncz, “ Aproximácia chýbajúcich údajov v psychologických dotazníkoch pomocou neurónových sietí,” Diplomová práca, Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, Prešov, 2010.

[7] P. Koncz and J. Paralič, “Automated creation of corpora for the needs of sentiment analysis,” in Proceedings of the 3nd RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference (RCOMM 2012), Budapest, Hungary, 2012, pp. 107–113.

[8] P. Koncz and J. Paralič, “Automatická analýza sentimentu textových zdrojov,” in Electrical Engineering and Informatics 2 : proceeding of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University of Košice., Košice, 2011, pp. 371–376.

[9] P. Koncz and J. Paralič, “Automatická tvorba korpusov pre potreby analýzy sentimentu,” in Electrical Engineering and Informatics 3 : proceeding of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University of Košice, 2012, pp. 122–125.

[10] P. Koncz, A. Lukacova, and J. Paralic, “Course web site as an integrated solution for e-learning, collaboration and publicly available knowledge base,” in Emerging eLearning Technologies & Applications (ICETA), 2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on, 2012, pp. 197–202.

[11] P. Koncz and J. Paralic, “Effective corpora creation for sentiment analysis,” in Cognitive Traveling in Digital Space of the Web and Digital Libraries: Studies in Informatics and Information Technologies, Bratislava: STU, 2013, pp. 92–94.

[12] P. Koncz, “Facilitation of corpora creation for sentiment analysis,” in SCYR 2014 : 14th Scientific Conference of Young Researchers, Herľany, Slovakia, pp. 180–182.

[13] M. Smatana, P. Smatana, J. Paralič, and P. Koncz, “Hodnotenie vlastnosti produktov na základe recenzií používateľov,” in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge Oriented Technologies, Smolenice, 2012, pp. 181–184.

[14] P. Koncz and J. Paralic, “Identification of School-Aged Children with High Probability of Risk Behavior on the Basis of Easily Measurable Variables,” vol. 7058, A. Holzinger and K.-M. Simonic, Eds. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 625–634.

[15] P. Koncz and J. Paralic, “Identifikácia osobnostných vlastností na základe údajov publikovaných v rámci sociálnych médií,” in Znalosti 2014, Jasna pod Chopkom, 2014.

[16] P. Koncz and K. Furdík, “Kategorizačný systém pre podporu kolektívnej anotácie internetových zdrojov,” in Electrical Engineering and Informatics 1 : proceeding of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University of Košice, 2010, pp. 630–634.

[17] P. Koncz, “Kategorizačný systém pre podporu kolektívnej anotácie internetových zdrojov,” Diplomová práca, Technická univerzita v Košiach, Košice, 2010.

[18] K. Machová and P. Koncz, “Metódy dolovania v konverzačnom obsahu so zameraním na analýzu sentimentu,” in Datakon a Znalosti 2013, Ostrava, 2013, pp. 2–14.

[19] M. Smatana, P. Koncz, J. Paralic, and P. Bednár, “Modelovanie témy v prúde dát z mikroblogov,” in WIKT 2014 9 th Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge Oriented Technologies, Smolenice, Slovakia, 2014, pp. 35–38.

[20] P. Koncz and Čema, Vladimír, “Multidimenzionálny referenčný model postojového systému,” in 3. Študentská vedecká konferencia, Prešov, Slovak Republic, 2007, pp. 664–679.

[21] P. Koncz, “Podpora rozhodovania s využitím aspektovo založenej analýzy sentimentu,” in 6th Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies : Proceedings, 2011, pp. 123–127.

[22] P. Koncz, “Prístupy k vnímaniu emócií v humanoidnej robotike,” in Electrical Engineering and Informatics 3 : proceeding of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University of Košice, 2012, pp. 129–134.

[23] P. Koncz and J. Paralič, “Rozpoznávanie pomenovaných entít v úlohách automatickej geografickej anotácie textových zdrojov,” in Proc. of 7th Workshop on Intelligent and Knowledge oriented Technologies (WIKT 2012), 2012, pp. 153–156.

[24] M. Smatana and P. Koncz, “Semi-automatic annotation tool for aspect-based sentiment analysis,” in 13th Scientific Conference of Young Researchers of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Technical University of Košice, Košice, 2013, pp. 196–198.

[25] P. Koncz, “Semiautomatická tvorba rešerší zo zdrojov na internete,” Bakalárska práca, Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Fakulta elektrotechniky a informatiky, Košice, 2008.

[26] A. Madarasová Gecková, P. Koncz, T. Baška, M. Bašková, L. Bobák, D. Bobáková, J. Fedačko, M. Gibalová, V. Jakubková, Z. Katreniaková, P. Kolarčik, J. Kollárová, L. Pitel, J. Rondošová, M. Sarková, Z. Tomčíková, Z. Veselská, and I. Žežula, Sociálne determinanty zdravia školákov: HBSC - Slovensko - 2009/2010. Košice: Equilibria, 2011.

[27] P. Rajzák, P. Koncz, M. Prídavok, R. Blahovec, and M. Prídavok, “Systém pre hodnotenie online reputácie bánk,” in Electrical Engineering and Informatics 1 : proceeding of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University of Košice, 2010, pp. 652–657.

[28] P. Koncz and J. Paralič, “Využitie zhlukovania na základe témy hodnotení v úlohách analýzy sentimentu,” in Znalosti 2012: Sborník příspěvků 11. ročníku konference, Mikulov, 2012, pp. 149–152.

[29] P. Koncz and J. Paralič, “Znalostný sklad pre predmet objavovanie znalostí,” in Electrical Engineering and Informatics 3 : proceeding of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University of Košice, 2012, pp. 126–128.

Contact

e-mail: peter@koncz.sk

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