Hi, I'm Vilém (colloquially Vilda), a final-year PhD at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. I do research on natural language processing. Let me know if you're interested in any of these topics!

• Evaluation (human annotations, automated metrics, methods)
• Multilingual NLP
• NLP-oriented human-computer interaction (confidence, quality)

News

• 2026: I am on the academic job market. I welcome opportunities for research visits, talks, and collaborations. Please reach out!
• 2026: We are organizing the first Multilingual Multicultural Evaluation workshop at EACL. Participate!

Experience

I'm advised by Mrinmaya Sachan at LRE lab and Menna El-Assady at IVIA lab for my PhD and during previous studies I was advised by Dietrich Klakow, and Ondřej Bojar.

I got to intern at Amazon Science and Google Translate as a PhD researcher. Before, I worked as a student research assistant at Saarland University and Charles University. I also interned at Previo and BIM Project as a developer.

Awards

• 2026: Cohere Labs Catalyst grant for efficient evaluation
• 2025: My PhD is now funded by a Google PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing
• 2025: EAMT grant for research on compute-efficient evaluation
• 2025: EAMT grant for research on LLM brittleness
• 2020-2022: Full Masters Erasmus Mundus scholarship for Language & Communication Technologies
• 2018: Student faculty grant for learning materials for Machine Learning Excercises in R

Links

• Google Scholar
• Semantic Scholar
• CV
• GitHub
• HuggingFace
• Bluesky
• Twitter/X
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Email