Yejin Choi

• Year

  2024

• Program

  AI2050

• Institution

  Stanford University

• Location

  USA

Yejin Choi is a professor and senior fellow at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellow. She was formerly the Wissner-Slivka Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research investigates a wide variety problems across NLP and AI including commonsense knowledge and reasoning, neural language (de-)generation, language grounding with vision and experience, and AI for social good. She is named among Time100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023, and a co-recipient of 2 test-of-time awards (ACL 2021 and CVPR 2021) and 8 best and outstanding paper awards at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICML, NeurIPS, and AAAI. She has also won the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University and BS in Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea.