Curriculum vitae

Name, first name, date of birth, marital status

• Blahuš, Marek
  born 16 May 1986 in Kyjov, Czech Republic
  resident in Šlapanice
  married, three children

Department/Faculty/University

• Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Function, current position

• IT scientist

Education and academic qualifications

• 2005 - 2011: student of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno
• 1997 - 2005: Gymnázium Uherské Hradiště - eight-year study at a secondary grammar school (graduated with distinction, examined in Czech language and literature, English language, Mathematics, German language, Programming)
• 1992 - 1997: IV. ZŠ Východ Uherské Hradiště - primary school

Teaching activities

• 2007: Seminár o Wikipédii, Partizánske, Slovakia, instructor in a training seminar on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia
• 2006: Languages in the Internet, Brno, chief organizer and a trainer in an international training seminar, supported by the Youth Programme of the European Commission
• 2005: Internacia Paroliga Semajno, Dobřichovice, instructor of an advanced group in a conversation course of the Esperanto language
• 2005: 61-a Internacia Junulara Kongreso, Zakopane, Poland, organization team member
• 2005: A brief course of the Esperanto language, Gymnázium Uherské Hradiště, instructor
• 2003: Presentation on the most common mistakes of webmasters, Junior Internet conference, Prague

Research activities

• natural language processing
• constructed languages and interlingustics
• genealogy, use of computers in genealogy and history of the ancestral village of Ostrožská Lhota

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• 2015/08/31 – 2015/09/04: Uppsala University, Uppsala, SWE
  • pracovní mobilita programu Erasmus+ v oddělení IT pobočky Uppsalské univerzity ve Visby na ostrově Gotland
• 2011/10/01 – 2012/02/29: European Commission, Directorate General for Interpretation, Brussels, Other programs, BEL
• 2010/09/01 – 2011/05/09: E@I, Nancy, LLP Erasmus, FRA
• 2008/08/26 – 2009/02/13: Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, LLP Erasmus, BEL

Other academic activities

• voluntary researcher at the Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno

Extracurricular activities

• 2005 - : Czech Esperanto Youth (founding member, since 2006 President)
• 2004 - : World Esperanto Youth Organization (individual member, since 2005 Committee Member for the Czech Republic)
• 2005 - : Education@Internet (individual member, since 2006 Committee Member for seminars)
• 2004 - : Society for the Support of Talented Youth of the Czech Republic (member)
• 2004 - : World Esperanto Asociation (individual member)
• 2005 - : Czech Esperanto Association (member)
• 2005 - : Active - Sobriety, Friendship and Peace (sympathizer)
• 2006: American Association for Artificial Intelligence (member)

Most significant professional accomplishments

• 2005: Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Phoenix, AZ, USA - Fourth Award in Computer Science, Special Award of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• 2002: Award of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic for extraordinary scholar activities of high school students
• 2004: Prize of the Jaroslav Heyrovský Endowment Fund
• 2005: Honor for extraordinary achievement of high school students in extracurricular activities (The Zlín Region)
• 2001: Junior Internet 2001, first place in the JuniorWeb competition of web pages created by youths up to 15 years old

Major publications

• BLAHUŠ, Marek. Aplikace počítačové lingvistiky při tvorbě on-line kurzu češtiny mluvtecesky.net (Application of computer linguistics in the creation of the mluvtecesky.net on-line Czech language course). In Klíč k češtině jako cizímu jazyku. 2015. info
• POŘÍZKOVÁ, Kateřina and Marek BLAHUŠ. Korpus autentických klinických diagnóz v prostředí softwaru Sketch Engine (Corpus of Authentic Clinical Diagnoses within the Software Sketch Engine). In LATINITAS MEDICA (sdílení zkušeností a inovace výuky lékařské terminologie, dějiny jazyka medicíny). 2014. info
• BLAHUŠ, Marek and Karel PALA. Extending Czech WordNet Using a Bilingual Dictionary. In Christiane Fellbaum, Piek Vossen. 6th International Global Wordnet Conference Proceedings. Matsue, Japan: Toyohashi University of Technology, 2012, p. 50-55. ISBN 978-80-263-0244-5. info
• BLAHUŠ, Marek. Morphology-Aware Spell-Checking Dictionary for Esperanto. In Petr Sojka, Aleš Horák. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, RASLAN 2009. Brno: Masaryk University, 2009, p. 3-8. ISBN 978-80-210-5048-8. URL info
• BLAHUŠ, Marek. Identifikace jazyka textu statistickými charakteristikami (Novel Investigations for N-Gram-Based Automatic Identification of Written Language). Uherské Hradiště: Gymnázium Uherské Hradiště, 2004, 23 pp. URL info
• BLAHUŠ, Marek. Magna Familia - revoluční nástroj genealoga (Magna Familia - a revolutionary tool of the genealogist). Uherské Hradiště: Gymnázium Uherské Hradiště, 2003, 37 pp. URL info
• BLAHUŠ, Marek. Vyhledávač Český WAP a WAPový emulátor Smith (The Czech WAP searcher and the Smith WAP emulator). Uherské Hradiště: Gymnázium Uherské Hradiště, 2002, 22 pp. URL URL info

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