Matúš Boleček

Education

Aarhus University
BSc. in Data Science, expected 2028, GPA: 9.8/12

Experience

Student Assistant – GenAI Adoption
Arla Foods Ingredients
  • Accelerating GenAI adoption across Supply Chain, Commercial, and R&D by running discovery workshops and translating diverse stakeholder needs into practical, tailored use cases
  • Embedded within a team of BI specialists and AI/ML experts, collaborating on identifying opportunities for deeper technical solutions across the value chain
AI Team Member
Slovak Debate Association
  • Worked on the anomaly detection model within a LLM-based answer scoring system in a national competition; sentence-embedding KNN features feeding an Isolation Forest, tuned against human-graded ground truth

Skills

Programming: Python, R, SQL
Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, Matplotlib, FastAPI, Streamlit
Languages: Slovak (Native), English C2 (CAE), German B1 (DSD 1 PRO), Danish (Beginner: Modul 1)
Tools: Power BI, QGIS, Excel, Git, OpenAI API, n8n, Jupyter, LaTeX, Vim, Linux
Interests: Music Production (FL Studio), Audio Engineering, Photography (Adobe Ps + Lr)

Technical Projects

Music Production Tools
  • Bscripts GitHub – Automates the production pipeline from raw DAW export to scheduled YouTube upload – stem compression, video & subtitle generation, Dropbox sync, and upload scheduling – cutting process time by ~80%
  • Loop Filtering GitHub – Automated filtering and ranking of audio samples using transformer audio embeddings and cosine similarity

Research

Generative AI as a Tool for Modern Education
SOČ – Student Research Competition   (Pedagogy; 1st Place, National Level) View project
  • Analyzed AI applications in educational settings; built a working LLM pipeline for AI-assisted student portfolio generation GitHub GitHub
Regional Aspects of Electoral Behavior in Slovakia
Geography Olympiad   (3rd Place, National Level) View project
  • Statistical analysis on voting patterns across 79 districts; interpreted 240+ Pearson correlation coefficients linking vote share to socio-demographic variables; built 2 parallel samples to control for confounding
  • Extended into an interactive Power BI dashboard featuring TopoJSON mapping, automated demographic correlations, and time-series analysis
Otherness in Schools
SOČ – Student Research Competition   (Sociology; 1st Place, National Level) View project
  • Designed and ran independent survey research on student attitudes toward minority groups; built a dataset of 1,039 valid responses across 48 schools; applied descriptive statistical analysis and manual qualitative coding of open-ended responses.

Competitions

Nitor Energy Intraday Trading Competition 2026 GitHub GitHub
  • Built an ensemble forecasting pipeline (XGBoost + LightGBM) to predict electricity prices from weather and market data; engineered domain-driven features; validated with a time-series CV to prevent data leakage
  • Placed top 10 based on RMSE on the public leaderboard
AUHack 2026 – Energy Market Dashboard GitHub GitHub
  • 48-hour hackathon project; built an automated data pipeline to process weather and spot-price data
  • Developed an XGBoost multi-regressor to forecast European electricity prices and LightGBM micro-models to simulate grid shocks, deployed via FastAPI and integrated with a React dashboard
European Statistics Competition
  • Placed 3rd, National Level; conducted a 6-year statistical analysis of national internet-adoption data across region, gender, and age; applied polynomial trend fitting, dispersion analysis, and a deviation-from-mean segmentation index; visualized results via GIS mapping and time-series charts.

Volunteering

Debate Team Coach
Gymnázium J. G. Tajovského
  • Coached 30+ students in argumentation, research, and public speaking; Organized training sessions and coordinated tournament participation
  • Led school debate team to Slovak Debate League finals
Basketball Referee
Slovak Basketball Association
  • Officiated regional youth basketball games

Additional Awards & Achievements

  • 2025: DigiEduHack 2025 – 3rd place; solution to teach students about AI
  • 2025: Slovak Debate League Finalist; 1st and 3rd place in regional tournaments
  • 2025: First prize, Demonstrating Active Citizenship, Human Rights Olympiad, UNIS Vienna
  • 2024–2025: 2× Pišqworky (Gomoku) Czech-Slovak Grand Finalist
  • 2024–2025: 2× Human Rights Olympiad National Round Qualifier
  • 2023–2025: 3× Critical Thinking Olympiad National Finalist; 2nd Place in 2023