Michal Štefánik
Welcome to my webpage! I am a last-year PhD Researcher at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University and an NLP Team Lead at Gauss Algorithmic.
My research focus is on the robustness of language models. This includes a reliable evaluation of models' generalization but also methods to improve models' robustness, by curating better data or improving existing training methods. My work enables the creation of models that perform better in low-resource settings, the training of instructional models with more human-like reasoning, or creating question-answering systems robust to prediction shortcuts.
I am a proud founder of TransformersClub™, a platform for supporting students in pursuing research ideas, with alumni awarded with international awards and papers in top-tier NLP/AI conferences.
Over the last six years, I've also contributed to and led the delivery of many industrial applications of cutting-edge language technologies, including multilingual language generation or entity recognition, all the way from the research ideas to the scalable deployments, now serving the fascinating NLP technologies to thousands of users.
I expect to obtain a PhD at the end of 2024 and am looking for a new research affiliation in the following time period!