Bence Sooki-Toth

MSc @ Aarhus University & Research @ Eötvös Loránd University

CURRENT INTEREST

  • zero knowledge cryptography
  • Ethereum security

HOBBIES

  • bouldering

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant

Eötvös Loránd University · Remote
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

  • Contributed to the design and implementation of a secure encryption module in C++ for the EuroQCI quantum communication project.

Student Research Engineer

Wigner Research Centre for Physics · Hybrid
Jun 2024 – Jun 2025

  • Collaborated with PhD researchers to accelerate permanent function computation for photonic quantum computing workloads such as Gaussian Boson sampling.
  • Derived and implemented a novel gradient formula for the permanent, making the computation more efficient.

Student Research Fellow

OTP Bank · Hybrid
Feb 2025 – Apr 2025

  • Investigated the feasibility of integrating post-quantum cryptographic schemes into blockchain consensus and transaction layers.

Test Automation Trainee

SAP · Budapest, Hungary
July 2023 – May 2024

  • Increased SAP Service and Asset Manager automated test coverage by converting manual workflows into Java/Appium test suites.

Full-stack Developer

Coding Sans · Budapest, Hungary
June 2022 – Oct 2022

  • Designed and implemented backend microservices in TypeScript (Node.js).
  • Developed Angular frontend components directly from Figma specifications.

PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

- Quantum Computing

  • Contribution to various quantum computing libraries during unitaryHACK 2025, such as ldpc, rustworkx, and quizx
  • Permanent boost: calculates the permanent function about 100% faster than previous state of the art implementations
  • QCS: quantum circuit simulator written in C++
  • QCBM: implementation of the Differentiable learning of quantum circuit Born machines paper
  • Steane: quantum error correction using code concatenation and the Steane code

PAST FOCUS

  • blockchain consensus attacks
  • differential equations & dynamical systems
  • smart contracts
  • functional programming