MacArthur Fellow and Leader in Common Sense AI to Continue Her Groundbreaking Research at Stanford HAI
STANFORD, Calif., January 16, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) today announced the appointment of NVIDIA’s Yejin Choi as the Dieter Schwartz Foundation HAI Professor, Professor of Computer Science, and Stanford HAI Senior Fellow. In this role, Choi, a MacArthur Fellow and a leader in natural language processing (NLP) focusing on aligning AI with societal values and human intentions, will continue her groundbreaking study of common sense AI and the shift from LLMs to SLMs.
Choi joins the esteemed Stanford HAI team, which includes Co-Founders and Co-Directors John Etchemendy, James Landay, and Fei-Fei Li. Before Stanford HAI, Choi served as the Wissner-Slivka Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and as a senior research manager at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She currently serves as senior director at NVIDIA.
“We founded Stanford HAI to guide and build the future of AI with the understanding that AI will transform the world as we know it. To achieve our mission of advancing AI research, education, and policy to improve the human condition, we assembled the foremost leaders in AI and Yejin is an outstanding addition to this team,” said Landay. “Yejin is a pioneer in common sense AI and her work is reshaping the field. Her groundbreaking research will contribute to our continued advancements in human-centered AI.”
“AI will impact every aspect of our lives, and Stanford HAI’s work is critically important in ensuring it is human-centered and benefits to humanity cannot be overstated,” said Choi. “I deeply value Stanford HAI’s interdisciplinary approach, this has been a defining principle throughout my career. I look forward to collaborating with James and the entire Stanford HAI team to shape the ethical and inclusive development of AI.”
Choi is a co-recipient of the Marr Prize (best paper award) at ICCV 2013, a recipient of Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018, named among IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016, and named to the Time100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023. Choi received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University (advisor: Prof. Claire Cardie) and BS in Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea.
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