Jiří Materna
Co-founder & Event Organizer at Machine Learning College
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolJiří Materna is a machine learning researcher, engineer, and organizer with over a decade of hands-on ML experience and eight years in leadership roles, including seven years heading research at Seznam.cz. He co-founded and runs Machine Learning Prague and founded Machine Learning College, blending practical ML consulting with education and community building. His expertise spans NLP, information retrieval, and probabilistic models, with a track record of moving research prototypes into production systems. Comfortable both in code (C++, Python) and academic settings (PhD in Computational Linguistics), he mentors startups and consults on applied ML solutions. An unusual combo: alongside AI work he recently pursued airline transport pilot theory, reflecting a curiosity for complex, regulated systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computational Linguistics, Ph.D., Computational Linguistics at Masaryk UniversityAirline Transport Pilot Theory, Airline Transport Pilot Theory at Bristol Groundschool
Czech, English, German, French
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Github Skills (6)
python6
machine-learning5
data-science4
computer-vision1
image1
image-processing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mlcollege/natural-language-processing
Jan 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
mlcollege/introduction-to-ml
Jan 2018 - Jun 2022
Introduction to Machine Learning
Contributions:53 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
introduction-to-machine-learningpythonmachine-learningdata-science
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