I'm a doctoral candidate at the Department of Statistics, and at the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford. My college is Keble College. I work under the supervision of Prof. Alison Etheridge (Dept. of Statistics) and Dr. Antonis Papachristodoulou (Dept. of Engineering Science, Control Group). I study stochastic models of biochemical reaction systems. I hope I'll be able to complete my doctorate by autumn 2010. My broad research interests lie in and at the interfaces of mathematics, mathematical (esp. probabilistic) modelling, control theory, systems biology, operations research, and — I'm writing this tentatively — how this all can be applied to problems of sustainability, and in social sciences in general, to make the world a better place.
The pronunciation of my name is ben-tse may-koo-ty, or.
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- Curriculum vitae (PDF)
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My transcript: Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2006-2007. - Transcript (PDF)
My transcript: MSc (mathematician), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 2001-2006.
Publications
- Bence Mélykúti, Kevin Burrage, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis. Fast stochastic simulation of biochemical reaction systems by alternative formulations of the Chemical Langevin Equation. Submitted, 2009.
- Bence Mélykúti, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Elias August, Hana El-Samad. Discriminating between competing biochemical network models: three approaches to optimal experiment design. Submitted, 2009.
- István Miklós, Bence Mélykúti, Krister Swenson. The Metropolized Partial Importance Sampling MCMC Mixes Slowly on Minimum Reversal Rearrangement Paths. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, accepted for publication, 2009.
Longer papers
- Alternative formulations and moment estimates for the chemical Langevin equation (PDF), a list of errata with important corrections (PDF), and the alternative formulations part on poster (PDF)
Dissertation for transfer to DPhil student status (Transfer report), 2009. Supervisors: Prof. Alison Etheridge, Dr. Antonis Papachristodoulou. - A control theoretical approach to designing optimal experiments in systems biology (PDF)
The write-up of the eight-week-long LSI DTC autumn project, 2007. Supervisor: Dr. Antonis Papachristodoulou. - Prediction of hematopoietic cell transplantation success from HLA matching (PDF), and the same on poster (PDF)
The write-up of the eight-week-long LSI DTC summer project, 2007. Supervisor: Prof. Gil McVean. - The Mixing Rate of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and some Applications of MCMC Simulation in Bioinformatics (PDF)
My thesis for the MSc degree mathematician, 2006. Supervisor: Dr. István Miklós.
Coursework
- Monte Carlo bounding techniques for determining solution quality in stochastic programs, in Hungarian (PDF)
Slides of my talk held at the Simulation course (lecturer: Csaba Fábián) on 10th May 2005. This is a summary of a paper written by Wai-Kei Mak, David P. Morton, R. Kevin Wood, in Operations Research Letters 24 (1999). - A quadratically convergent polynomial algorithm for solving entropy optimization problems, in Hungarian (PDF)
Slides of my talk given at the Continuous Optimization Seminar on 21st April 2005. This is a summary of a paper written by Florian Potra and Yinyu Ye, in SIAM J. Optimization Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1993. - Young-programming, in Hungarian (PDF)
Slides of my talk that was held at the Selected topics in continuous optimization course (lecturer: Tibor Illés) on 5th April 2005.
Miscellaneous
- Program for computing the distance of two points
A useful tool for GPS-users. - [Last update: 13th November 2009.]
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