Hans Uszkoreit studied Linguistics and Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin.

His protesting against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia led to his expulsion from high school and subsequent imprisonment for a period of fifteen months on charges of subversive agitation.

Realizing that continuing his education in East Germany was not feasible, Uszkoreit made the decision to escape to West Berlin.

There, he completed his high school education and pursued a degree in Linguistics and Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin.

Between 1982 and 1986, Uszkoreit held the position of a computer scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International in Menlo Park, California.