Otakar Smrž
Data Science Director
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolOtakar Smrž is a Data Science Director based in Prague with 11+ years blending research-grade NLP, knowledge graphs, and machine learning into production AI products for healthcare and market intelligence. He builds and leads multidisciplinary teams that turn prototypes into services, with a strong track record at MSD, Seznam.cz and IDC creating search, entity-linking and scientific information platforms. Trained as a mathematical linguist with a PhD and an MSc in physics, he uniquely combines deep language expertise (including Arabic linguistics) with pragmatic engineering and product sense. Otakar is comfortable across the stack—from semantic models and graph embeddings to intuitive visualizations—and has repeatedly scaled NLP capabilities inside large organizations. He co-founded a language institute and maintains hands-on research programming experience, reflecting an enduring commitment to cross-cultural knowledge and open technical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Mathematical Linguistics, Ph.D., Mathematical Linguistics at Charles University in PragueComputer and Information Science, Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Arabic, Persian, Korean, German, Russian, French, Czech
Github Skills (13)
statistics10
data-science9
python9
data-analysis9
machine-learning9
scikit8
scikit-learn8
morphology8
arabic6
elixir4
text-processing3
computational-linguistics2
turkish2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
otakar-smrz/encode-arabic
Apr 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
otakar-smrz/elixir-fm
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 branches in 1 day
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