PhD in Informatics

The PhD program at the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University provides students with deep knowledge and experience in selected fields of computer science and helps them to develop skills needed for a successful career in academia or in industry. Two main PhD study fields are offered: Informatics and Computer Systems and Technologies.

Study in Informatics is aimed primarily at basic scientific research, both theoretical and experimental, to acquire new knowledge and experience of fundamental nature in all areas of informatics. Concentration is on the verification of concurrent systems, design and analysis of algorithms, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, database, search, internet, and web systems and engines, cryptography, image processing, bioinformatics, medicine-informatics, and quantum-informatics.

Study in Computer Systems and Technologies is aimed primarily at theoretical and experimental investigation and innovative design of computer systems and related protocols and technology. Current focus, reflecting the supervisor's own research work, is on distributed systems and networks, large-scale distributed computing and storage system, virtualization, grid, and cloud system, computer graphics and visualization, image processing, natural language processing, applied security and privacy, collaborative systems and e-learning, embedded systems, and processor designs.