Curriculum Vitae

RNDr. Martin Holub, PhD
email
: holub@ufal.mff.cuni.cz

 

Current position
I am a full-time senior researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. I also teach (courses in programming and in machine learning) and supervise both undergraduate and graduate students. My current research interests are mainly lexical semantics, automatic lexical disambiguation, statistical corpus processing and machine learning for natural language processing.

 

Education

  • 2005 -- PhD in computer science, Charles University in Prague
    specialized in natural language processing and information retrieval
    with thesis “Models, Similarity, and Topics of Texts
  • 1995 -- graduated in computer science, Charles University in Prague
    specialized in database systems and information retrieval

 

Working experience

  • since 2008
    senior researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics,
    Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
  • 2005-2008
    analyst for software systems in financial corporations:
    • AXA Investment Company, Czech republic
    • The Czech Insurance Company, Czech republic
  • 2003
    took part in the research summer workshop “Semantic Analysis Over Sparse Data”
    at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US,
    organized by the Center for Language and Speech Processing
  • 1997-2005
    postgraduate student and assistant researcher at Department of Software Engineering,
    and at Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics,
    both at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
  • 1995-1997
    teacher at high school (mathematics, computer skills)