Welcome! Here you can find some of my writing, projects, and creative endeavors. Samuel Belko

Writing

• Blog: Simple Complexity

Projects

Visualisierung der Ladevorgänge an E-Ladestationen der kantonalen Verwaltung Zürich, code; June 2025
Master thesis at Stadler Rail: Design Optimization of a Hybrid Railway Vehicle; September 2024
Logbook.jl: a tool for logging events; May 2024
GreenHack~IT: supply chain optimization; March 2024
Contributions to SurrogatesBase.jl; 2024
Seminar talk: Presenting papers that describe the winning solution of the International Timetabling Competition 2019; November 2023
Google Summer of Code 2023, developing open source software for The Julia Language organization; May - September 2023
• Blog: GSoC'23: Bayesian optimization in Julia
• Code: available in Bayesian Optimization in Julia organization on github
• Poster for presenting the project at Julia and Optimization Days 2023
Seminar talk: Bayesian Optimization in High Dimensions via Random Embeddings; June 2023
A framework for collage art in Julia; March 2023
• Example output: leaf -> Mona
Seminar talk: Erdös-Rényi Random Graph - The Supercritical Regime; Decemeber 2021
• 1st part: The Big Picture & Short Recap - slides
• 2nd part: The Supercritical Regime - interactive notebook in Julia using Pluto.jl
HackaTUM: PhilOpt - a platform for matching people with charitable organizations; November 2021
Co-founder of Math Ventures Club; 2021
• MVC is was an accredited student group actively encouraging original thinking, curiosity and collaboration
Workshop: Julia and Project Jupyter; May 2020
• Slides (in german, with an example implementation of polynomial rings)
Various math oriented projects using Julia; 2020
• «Adventures»
Experiments using Kaggle kernels; 2018
• Predicting prices of avocados
• Finding related emoji based on their nutritional values

Creative endeavors

Photography
• Architecture
• Nature
Digital art
• Creative coding
• Miscellaneous

Contact

• [forename][surname]@pm.me