Ondřej Dušek is an assistant professor at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. His research is in the areas of natural language generation and dialogue systems. He has been focusing on neural-networks-based approaches to both generation and dialogue, as well as evaluation methods. He recently obtained an ERC grant titled Next-Generation Natural Language Generation, aiming at accurate and fluent generation through a synergy of neural networks and explicit symbolic semantics. Ondřej got his PhD in 2017 at Charles University. Between 2016 and 2018, he worked at the Interaction Lab at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, one of the leading groups in dialogue systems and natural-language interaction with computers and robots. There he co-organised the E2E natural language generation challenge and co-supervised a finalist team of PhD students in the Amazon Alexa Prize dialogue system competition.