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
- Cryptography related
- crypto-rs: dependency-free cryptographic primitives in Rust, built from scratch
- stark-rs: in-progress, dependency-free implementation of a STARK proof system in Rust, built from scratch
- Bribers, Bribers on The Chain, Is Resisting All in Vain?: trustless consensus manipulation through bribing contracts, paper for FC'26
- 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