Bio

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data, AI (2018–2022)
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Thesis: Deep learning methods for music style transfer
Supervisors: Gaël Richard, Umut Şimşekli
Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics (2016–2018)
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
Thesis: Continuous sentence representations in neural machine translation
Supervisor: Ondřej Bojar
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (2013–2016)
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
Thesis: Machine translation of spoken English into Czech_
Supervisor: Ondřej Bojar
Gymnázium Nad Alejí, Prague (2005–2013)
Jazz Saxophone (2016–2018; interrupted)
Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and College, Prague

AudioShake (Apr 2023–present)
Research Scientist working on lyrics alignment and transcription.
Utopia Music, Barcelona (Oct 2022–Mar 2023)
Data Scientist working on lyrics analysis.
University of Montpellier, Montpellier (Feb–Oct 2022)
Postdoc on animal movement modeling.
Team: Zenith (Inria)
InterDigital R&D, Cesson-Sévigné [remote] (Jul–Sep 2020)
Research internship on music timbre transfer.
Host: Alexey Ozerov.
Google, Zürich (May–Sep 2017)
Research internship on deep generative models for text.
Host: Enrique Alfonseca.
Jelinek Summer Workshop, JHU, Baltimore (Jun–Aug 2016)
Worked on Building Speech Recognition System from Untranscribed Data.
Google, New York (Jun–Sep 2015)
Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure Intern.
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague (2015)
Created Alex Translate, an English-to-Czech speech translation service.
Machine Translation Marathon, Trento (Sep 2014)
Presented and coordinated the Twitter Crowd Translation project.

CSDAI Best PhD Thesis – accessit (3rd place) – CSDAI department, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (2022)
Young Researcher Prize (Prix Jeune Chercheuse/Chercheur) at the Journée Science et Musique, Rennes (2021)
Main prize from Microsoft (“best use of AI technology”) for the Rapple project at the Abbey Road Red Hackathon (2018)
MSCA fellowship as part of the MIP-Frontiers training network (2018–2021)
7th place at the Czech computer science olympiad (2013)
Participation at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Ljubljana (2012)
4th place at the Czech national programming contest (2009)

I am the author of the following software projects:

NoPdb, a non-interactive (programmatic) Python debugger
gps2var, a Python library for fast reading of geospatial variables by GPS coordinates
HTML MIDI Player web component for playing and visualizing MIDI files in the browser
TonnetzViz, a web-based MIDI visualization that can be used to show harmonic relationships in music
Confugue, a hierarchical configuration framework ideal for (but not limited to) machine learning experiments
Mute Notifications for Google Chrome

Master student research project (PRIM) supervision at Télécom Paris (2019–2020, 2020–2021)
Deep learning lab at Télécom Paris (2019, 2020, 2021)