Yejin Choi
Acting Professor, Computer Science
Bio
Yejin Choi is the Acting Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor and Senior Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) respectively. Choi is MacArthur Fellow (class of 2022), AI2050 Senior Fellow (class of 2024), and named among Time100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023. In addition, Choi is a co-recipient of 2 Test-of-Time awards and 8 Best and Outstanding Paper Awards at top AI conferences including ACL, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, and AAAI, the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016. Choi was a main stage speaker at TED 2023, and a keynote speaker for a dozen conferences across several AI disciplines including ACL, CVPR, ICLR, MLSys, VLDB, WebConf, and AAAI. Her current research interests include fundamental limits and capabilities of large language models, alternative training recipes for language models, symbolic methods for neural networks, reasoning and knowledge discovery, moral norms and values, pluralistic alignment, and AI safety.