Samuel Belko

Live in the future and build what seems interesting. - Paul Graham

About

Find me

• [forename][surname]@pm.me
• Github: samuelbelko

Interests

Applied mathematical optimization & related topics
• theory, modeling, implementation of optimization software
• Spending time in nature, swimming, riding a bike, slacklining
Creative activities & visual arts
• digital sketches, creative coding, conceptual design, photography, mind-bending movies …

Projects

Google Summer of Code 2023, developing open source software for The Julia Language organization; (in progress)
• Blog: GSoC'23: Bayesian optimization in Julia
• 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
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
• Sketches
• Generative art
• Miscellaneous
Web design
• a couple of minimalistic websites in a very similar style to the one you are currently on

© 2023 Samuel Belko