With a background in physics and network science, Milan earned his PhD in network and data science in 2020. He studied and researched at the Eötvös Loránd University and the Central European University in Budapest, at the Barabási Lab in Boston, and the Bell Labs in Cambridge. He was selected as Forbes 30u30 in 2020. He is a TEDx Speaker, an alumni at Eötvös Collegium, and a regular columnist at Qubit and the Data Visualization Society.

Three-times book author with Connecting the Dots (EN, 2024), the #1 Amazon best seller Geospatial Data Science Essentials (EN, 2024), and DATA - Így Hálóznak be az Adataid (HU, 2023).

Milan is the founder of Geospatial Data Consulting and an External Consultant at Oxford Economics. He is also Visiting Faculty at Central European University and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor reaching tens of thousands of learners worldwide. Previously, he co-founded and led data science at early-stage ventures including Datapolis and Baoba, and has been a long-term senior consultant at Maven7.

He was awarded the Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary three times, won multiple prizes at science competitions, and presented his work in peer-reviewed journals and conferences from Nature’s Scientific Reports to MIT.

His work has been featured in Nature Social Science Research, GQ, Times Higher Education, New Scientist, New York Times, TechXplore, The Economic Times, Fossbytes, Futurism, The Times, Towards Data Science, Phys.org, Nightingale, Gamestar, 99 Data Influencers to Follow 2023, the Miami Art Week, and more.