Dr. Yejin Choi

Biography

Yejin Choi is a Professor and Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). She is a MacArthur Fellow for the class of 2022 and an AI2050 Senior Fellow for the class of 2024. In 2023, she was named one of Time's 100 Influential People in AI. Choi has received several accolades in the form of awards, including two Test-of-Time awards and eight Outstanding Paper Awards from top AI conferences such as ACL, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, and AAAI. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) and in 2017, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge. Her influential work has been recognized by IEEE AI's 10 to Watch in 2016. She has been a main stage speaker at TED 2023 and has served as a keynote speaker for numerous prestigious conferences in the AI disciplines. Choi's current research interests focus on the fundamental limits and capabilities of large language models, alternative training methods for language models, the integration of symbolic methods with neural networks, and understanding moral norms and values in the context of AI safety.

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