Calls for PhD students

2024

Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University seeks new PhD students in various areas of Computer Science and related interdisciplinary fields. The list of PhD supervisors provides a more detailed overview of all currently available topics for PhD studies. The current application procedure and deadlines can be found on the admission information page.

In an addition to the general call for doctoral students, the Faculty announces the following special calls for open PhD positions with special funding for the 2024 academic year. This special funding is provided by research projects, industrial projects, and Faculty departments. The interested candidates are, besides submitting all the required documents for the following special calls by their respective deadlines, still obliged to pass the standard admission procedure (details). This competition is open to eligible candidates from all countries, and specifically also for the study programmes in English. The details can (and should) be consulted with the contact persons of the offered positions.

Candidates whose interests do not fall into the areas of the special calls below are encouraged to contact their potential supervisors directly and discuss the funding possibilities individually.


Department of Computer Science Calls

Department of Computer Science offers positions with special funding in the following research areas.

Combinatorics and complexity of problems on graphs defined by geometry

Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Petr Hliněný, Ph.D.
Area: Theoretical computer science
more info

Formal methods for program analysis

Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Jan Strejček, Ph.D.
Area: Theoretical computer science
more info

Risk-Aware Planning and Reinforcement Learning

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Petr Novotný, Ph.D.
Area: Theoretical computer science
more info


Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing Calls

Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing offers one position with special funding in the following research areas. The application deadline is May 12, 2024.

Intelligent Multilingual Man Machine Communication

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.
Area: Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, Dialogue Management
more info

Synthesis and Verification of Stochastic Systems Using Learning Methods

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Tomáš Brázdil, Ph.D.
Area: Theoretical computer science, Formal Methods
more info

Anomaly detection and description

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Lubomír Popelínský, Ph.D.
Area: Anomaly detection
more info

Next Generation Clinical Decision Support System

Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Bc. Vít Nováček, PhD
Area: Medical Informatics, Clinical Decision Support
more info

Tools and algorithms for a better understanding of the eukaryotic repeatome

Supervisor: doc. Ing. Matej Lexa, Ph.D.
Area: Bioinformatics, Computational DNA sequence and genome analysis, Sequence repeats
more info

Efficient Cross-Modal Retrieval in Human Motion Data

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Jan Sedmidubský, Ph.D.
Area: Information Retrieval, Computer Vision
more info

Personalized and explainable similarity search

Supervisor: prof. Ing. Pavel Zezula, CSc.
Area: Data management, Information retrieval, Similarity search
more info




Special Calls

Biomedical Image Analysis

Sponsors: Masaryk University and various project foundations
Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Michal Kozubek, Ph.D., doc. RNDr. Pavel Matula, Ph.D., doc. RNDr. Petr Matula, Ph.D., doc. RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D., doc. RNDr. Martin Maška, Ph.D.
Area: Cell segmentation and tracking, image-based modeling and simulation in biology, MRI brain image analysis
Application deadline: May 12, 2024.
more info

Cybersecurity

Sponsors: Masaryk University and various project foundations
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Pavel Čeleda, Ph.D.
Area: Cybersecurity tabletop exercises and data mining
Application deadline: May 12, 2024.
more info

Natural Language Processing

Sponsors: Masaryk University and various project foundations
Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D., doc. Mgr. Pavel Rychlý, Ph.D.
Area: Text mining, Entity Relations extraction and visualization, e-lexicography
Application deadline: May 12, 2024.
more info