Matúš Boleček

Aarhus, Denmark hi@matusbolecek.com matus-bolecek matusbolecek

Education

Aarhus University
BSc. in Data Science, expected 2028, GPA: 9.8/12
2025 – Present

Experience

Student Assistant – AI & ML
Arla Foods Ingredients
8/2026 – Present
  • Partnering with stakeholders across Supply Chain, Commercial, and R&D to optimize their workflows, translating business needs into tailored AI/ML solutions
  • Embedded within the Data & Analytics team, collaborating on identifying opportunities for deeper technical solutions across the value chain
AI Team Member
Slovak Debate Association
8/2025 – Present
  • Member of the team maintaining the AI-assisted answer evaluation system for the Critical Thinking League, a national competition with 10,000+ yearly participants
  • Worked on improving anomaly detection within the LLM-scoring pipeline; designed semantic and embedding-based features and trained & evaluated a tree-based model
Music Production Automation Developer
Self-employed
3/2024 – 5/2025
  • Built an end-to-end Python pipeline automating the online release process and catalogue management, reducing manual work by ~80%
  • Applied machine learning to rank samples submitted by e-mail, 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)
2025
  • Wrote an analysis reviewing Slovak education policy and international research on generative AI to set out recommendations and risks for its use in schools
  • Built a working pipeline for AI-assisted student portfolios and assessments, using the OpenAI API, a local SQLite database and built-in anonymization before reaching the LLM GitHub
Regional Aspects of Electoral Behavior in Slovakia
Geography Olympiad (3rd Place, National Level)
2025
  • Statistical analysis of voting patterns across 79 districts; interpreted 240+ Pearson correlation coefficients linking vote share to socio-demographic variables; built 2 parallel samples to control for ethnic 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)
2024
  • 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
2026
  • 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
2026
  • 48-hour hackathon team project; automated data pipeline to process weather and spot-price data, deployed via FastAPI and integrated with a React dashboard
  • Personal main focus on an XGBoost multi-regressor to forecast European electricity prices and LightGBM micro-models to simulate grid shocks
DigiEduHack 2025 Bratislava – AI Proficiency
2025
  • Placed 3rd in the team hackathon organized by the Slovak Ministry of Education, focused on improving AI proficiency for everyone
  • Proposed an e-learning platform built around a nationwide competition to teach Slovak students about AI, and built simple demos
European Statistics Competition
2025
  • Placed 3rd, National Level with a 6-year statistical analysis of Slovak 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

Skills

Programming: Python, R, SQL, Java, Bash
Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, HF Transformers, Matplotlib, Streamlit, FastAPI
Languages: Slovak (Native), English C2 (CAE), German B1 (DSD 1 PRO), Danish (Beginner: Modul 1)
Tools: Git, Linux , Databricks, Power BI, Excel, Copilot Studio, OpenAI API, n8n, Ollama, QGIS
Interests: Music Production & Audio Engineering, Chess, Photography

Volunteering

Debate Team Coach
Gymnázium J. G. Tajovského
9/2024 – 6/2025
  • Coached 30+ students in argumentation, research, and public speaking
  • Organized training sessions, coordinated tournament participation and promoted competitive debate within the school
Basketball Referee
Slovak Basketball Association
9/2023 – 4/2024
  • Officiated regional youth basketball games

Additional Awards & Achievements

  • 2024–2025: Slovak Debate League Finalist in 2025; 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 League National Finalist; 2nd Place in 2023
  • 2019: Náboj Junior; 1st place internationally (SK, CZ, PL); team mathematics & physics competition

Last updated October 2026