Calls for PhD students

2023

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 starting in the Autumn 2023 term. 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 (deadline May 22, 2023, 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 up to two positions with special funding in the following research areas. The application deadline is May 14, 2023.

Complexity of problems on graphs defined by geometry

Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Petr Hliněný, Ph.D.
Area: Theoretical computer science
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Formal methods for program analysis

Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Jan Strejček, 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 14, 2023.

Intelligent Multilingual Man Machine Communication

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.
Area: Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, Dialogue Management
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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: Ing. Matej Lexa, Ph.D., doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, 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


Department of Visual Computing Calls

Department of Visual Computing offers one position with special funding in the following research areas. The application deadline is May 14, 2023.

Cell Behaviour Studies using Machine Learning

Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Michal Kozubek, Ph.D.
Area: Biomedical image processing
more info

Playful Approaches for Creating Awareness About Pro-Sustainability Behaviour

Supervisor: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Simone Kriglstein
Area: Human-Computer Interaction
more info

Attention-based processing of large-scale microscopy images

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Petr Matula, Ph.D.
Area: Biomedical image processing
more info

Morphology-aware Modeling in Biomedicine

Supervisor: doc. RNDr. David Svoboda, Ph.D.
Area: Biomedical image processing
more info



Special Calls

Analysis of Gameplay Loops

Sponsors: Masaryk University and Brainamics
Supervisor: Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Simone Kriglstein
Area: Human Computer Interaction, Games User Research, Game Analytics
Application deadline: May 14, 2023.
more info

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.
Area: Cell segmentation and tracking, image-based modeling and simulation in biology
Application deadline: May 14, 2023.
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 14, 2023.
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 14, 2023.
more info