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 interests are in everything around robustness of language models. This includes a reliable evaluation of models' generalization, but also the methods to improve models' robustness, for instance, by creating better data, or improving existing training methods. My research enables better domain adaptation, more data-efficient low-resource training (e.g. in Machine Translation) or a creation of question-answering systems robust to prediction shortcuts.
I am also a founder of student Transformers Club, whose alumni were awarded with several Dean's awards and prizes from international competitions and shared tasks.
Over the last five years, I've also contributed and led the delivery of the industrial applications of the most recent NLP research in multilingual language generation, or entity recognition, all the way from the research ideas to the scalable, containerized deployments, nowadays serving the fascinating NLP technologies to end users.
I expect to get my PhD around October 2024 and will be looking for a new research affiliation in the following time period.