Ondřej Dušek - CV

born: 1985

Study

  • 2012-2017: Ph.D. in Mathematical linguistics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
    • Ph.D. thesis: Novel methods in natural language generation for spoken dialogue systems
    • Supervisor: Filip Jurčíček
  • 2007-2013: M.A. in German language and literature, Department of Germanic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
    • 2012-2017: Organizing the PRAGESTT students' conference
    • Fall 2010/2011: Erasmus stay at Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
  • 2007-2010: M.Sc. in Mathematical linguistics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
    • 2009-2010: Team work in the MaGeX software project
  • 2004-2007: B.Sc. in Programming, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague

Work Experience

  • since 2019: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague).
  • 2016-2018: Research Associate/Research Fellow in the Interaction Lab/NLP Lab (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh). Working on the following projects:
  • 2011-2016: Research Assistant at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague). Working on the following grant projects:
    • Since 2014: AdaNLG – adaptive natural language generation
    • Since 2013: QTLeap – quality translation by deep aproaches
    • Since 2012: Vystadial – statistical spoken dialogue system
    • 2013-2014: Khresmoi – statistical machine translation of medical documents
    • 2011-2012: FAUST – improving machine translation fluency
  • 2011-2015: Webmaster of the Department of Germanic Studies (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague)
  • 2010: Lexicographer & Technical Support for the Great German-Czech Academic Dictionary, Technical help (Department of Germanic Studies)
  • 2009, 2015: Translator: German-Czech translation of papers on German literatrue
  • 2006-2009: Webmaster of Mathematic Correspondence Seminar (Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague)
  • 2006-2007: J2ME Programmer (Softmatch s.r.o)

See also Bibilography.

Skills

• Languages: fully proficient in Czech, English, and German; passive Dutch, French
• Programming: Python, Perl, Java, Bash, JavaScript, PHP, C/C++, C#
• Machine learning: TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, WEKA, Grid computing
• Version control, LaTeX, crowdsourcing (FigureEight)