About

Kyunghyun Cho is the Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics and a professor of computer science and data science at New York University. He is also a CIFAR Fellow of Learning in Machines & Brains and an Associate Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. Early 2021, he co-founded Prescient Design which was acquired by Genentech late 2021. Since then, he served as an Executive Director of Frontier Research and a Senior Fellow at Genentech until January 2026. He served as a (co-)Program Chair of ICLR 2020, NeurIPS 2022 and ICML 2022. He was one of the three founding Editors-in-Chief of the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) until 2024. He was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research from June 2017 to May 2020 and a postdoctoral fellow at University of Montreal until Summer 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Yoshua Bengio, after receiving MSc and PhD degrees from Aalto University April 2011 and April 2014, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Juha Karhunen, Dr. Tapani Raiko and Dr. Alexander Ilin. He received the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Engineering in 2021. He tries his best to find a balance among machine learning, natural language processing, and life, but almost always fails to do so.

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