Jan Hajič is a full professor of Computational Linguistics at, and a deputy director of, the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the School of Computer Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. His interests span fundamental formal linguistic problems, machine translation, deep language understanding, and applications. He also has experience in building language resources for many languages with rich linguistic annotation: he is currently coordinating a large, multi-institutional research infrastructure on language resources in Czechia, LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ, and coordinating a Horizon Europe project on collecting resources for building LLMs, HPLT.
His work experience includes both industrial research (IBM Research Yorktown Heights, NY, USA) and academia (Charles University, Prague, Czechia, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, University of Colorado, USA, Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Norway Academy of Sciences, and others). He has published more than 200 papers. He is a chair or member of many international and national boards and committees.