Jan Hajic

Professor

Charles University in Prague

Jan Hajic is a full professor of computational linguistics at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His main interests cover machine translation, deep language understanding and the application of statistical methods in natural language processing in general; Jan has also built language resources with rich linguistic annotation for several languages. His work experience includes industrial research (IBM Research, NY, USA) and academia (at home and at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA). Jan has published more than 180 papers and a book on computational morphology. He has been the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI of numerous international research projects.