Yejin Choi

Why you should listen

MacArthur Fellow and natural language processing expert Yejin Choi is immersed in artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on understanding if these systems can (or should) learn a sense of commonsense reasoning. She is a computer science professor at the University of Washington, a distinguished research fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford and a senior research director at the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, where she oversees the commonsense-focused Mosaic project.

Choi is the co-recipient of two Test of Time Awards and five best paper awards from top academic conferences in AI. She won the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, was a co-recipient of the Borg Early Career Award in 2018 and was named to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' "10 to Watch" in AI list in 2016.