Vidor Gencel

As a part of my master's thesis, I implemented a distributed proof of work blockchain in Node.js. I did a comparative analysis of the Bitcoin and the Ethereum blockchain, concluded main differences in their core blockchain way of operation, set requirements for a custom platform and developed it. I have analyzed in detail the difference of PoW algorithms and implemented my own including the miner process. While building the blockchain security considerations were made to stop malicious actors, censoring, reply attacks, etc.

Telenor organized the first Telenor Hackathon, within which 15 teams of programmers had the opportunity to develop a functional prototype of Facebook Messenger Chatbot application.

My team built an advanced chat bot which was announced as the best technical solution as well as best presented bot. The bot was build using various NLP techniques using Java and Node.js, to understand the question asked, and external APIs to provide a competent answer.

As a part of my bachelor's thesis, I implemented a software agent for social networks using natural language processing and machine learning techniques. The main functionality of the bot was parsing and analyzing user messages, executing reminders and providing a friendly user interface to end-users.

The bot was developed in Java using the Stanford NLP library. The database used was MongoDB.

The paper describing the process was published on the Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR) with the title "A software agent for social networks using natural language processing techniques"

As a part of this project, I developed a functional payment kiosk for parking services. Apart from software development, I established the connections between the components. The kiosk has the ability to scan barcodes and RFID cards, receive cash and return change (both paper and coin), print different kinds of receipts with a thermal printer. The kiosks are connected to the main server through modern IoT protocols. The project was developed in Java and related technologies.

TrippyTap is a very fun and addicting puzzle and reflex game that was developed for the Firefox OS and Android platform. The Firefox OS version won the second place in an app competition, and the android version has experienced huge popularity in Bangladesh by being included in local provider application with over 5 million installs.

XBoost is a software agent that acts like a game server providing fake data to its clients and redirecting every connection to a real game server, thus increasing game server popularity. PHP was used both for the UDP server and the web control panel that had advanced management and billing functionality.