New PhD positions in Language Technologies and Computational Linguistics!

PhD program

fully funded 4-year Ph.D. positions in Natural Language Processing & Deep Learning & Computational Linguistics
special focus on artificial neural networks and multilingual NLP, more classical topics of Computational Linguistics are welcome as well
industrial topics possible (co-supervision by an industry partner)
hosted by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL), Computer Science School, Charles University, Prague

amazing concentration of experts in all fields of NLP/HLT/CL/ML/DL/… (some 60 researchers in total)
- team members’ prizes and awards: ACL Lifetime Achievement Award, ELRA/LREC Antonio Zampolli Prize, CLARIN Achievements award, Hlavka Foundation Scientific achievement award, Gold and Silver medals by University and Faculty, Faculty Excellent Teaching Awards, …
monthly social events, highly international environment
range of EU and national projects (and other kinds of international cooperation too, incl. with the USA, Australia, Hong Kong)
organizer of major CL/NLP/Speech events in the past: ACL&EMNLP'07, ACL’10, ASRU’13, DepLing'13, Coling’14, EAMT'17, TLT'17, SigDial'15, MT Marathons yearly (and more)
highly competitive scientific achievements, shared task winners in CoNLL'18, VarDial'17, several WMTs…
respectable hardware firepower: housing 100 GPUs (and counting), 1500 CPUs, 3 coffee machines

Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe
the Institute located in the very heart of the historical center, walking distance to all the main Prague attractions
the whole city covered by fast, clean and safe public transportation
vibrant AI and ML community in Prague

Guranteed income (a Ph.D. stipend + a part-time working contract) easily covers student living expenses in Prague
A number of additional opportunities:
- Bonuses for publication activity
- Conference expenses funded for all accepted papers
- Fully funded 6-month research stays abroad within the Ph.D. study
- A possibility to participate in grant projects related to the student's research topic (additional part-time salary)

Have a look at the list of current UFAL PhD supervisors and their topics
Establishing a contact with your potential PhD advisor at the Institute prior to the application is essential. A supervisor's signed agreement to supervise you is a necessary part of your official application to the programme.
Either contact some of the supervisors directly (e.g. according to your research topic preferences), or send an email to phd@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
- Getting in touch two months ahead of the official application deadline is a reasonable minimum. Three months is better.
Attach your CV in either case, and ideally also a list of your publications (if any), your transcripts of records, and links to your project repositories (if public)
If you negotiate with two or more potential supervisors simultaneously, please indicate it clearly to all of them
You may consider take part in UFAL Pre-PhD Student Internship Program too
General information about the faculty admission procedure is here
- In the Study Information System, select these:
  - Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
  - Language of Instruction: English (unless you speak Czech)
  - Form and type of study: full-time, doctoral
  - Study program / branch: Computational linguistics | P4I3A (P0619D140002)