Kyunghyun Cho, Ph.D.

Kyunghyun Cho is an associate professor of computer science and data science at New York University and a senior director of frontier research at the Prescient Design team within Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED). He is also a CIFAR Fellow of Learning in Machines & Brains and an associate member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. Cho was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research from June 2017 to May 2020 and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montreal until Summer 2015 after receiving M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Aalto University in April 2011 and April 2014, respectively. He received the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Engineering in 2021. His work focuses on machine learning and natural language processing.