Jan Hajič is a professor of Computational Linguistics at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the School of Computer Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. He is the vice-director of the Institute. His field is NLP and building language resources with rich linguistic annotation. He is currently also the director of a large, multi-institutional research infrastructure on language resources in Czechia, LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ. His work experience includes both industrial research (IBM) and academia (in Czechia, Norway, and the U.S.). He has published more than 200 publications. He is the chair of META-NET and member of DG Translation EG LIND.