Yejin Choi

Educator/Teacher, Scientist

Yejin Choi is Brett Helsel professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior research director at AI2 overseeing the project Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning, and various other problems in AI fields including human language understanding and generation, language grounding with vision and experience, and AI for social good. She is a co-recipient of 2 Test of Time Awards and 5 Best Paper Awards at top academic conferences such as ACL, AAAI, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICCV. She is also a co-recipient of the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, and IEEE AI's 10 to Watch in 2016.