Jinho D. Choi
Computer Scientist at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJinho Choi is an associate professor of computer science at Emory University, focusing on natural language processing, core NLP technology, machine comprehension, and dialogue management. He founded and directs Emory NLP, pairing computer science with linguistics and cognitive science to push language understanding research from theory to practice. Since 2024, he has also served as Co-Director of Graduate Studies, shaping interdisciplinary training across the department. His academic path includes a Ph.D. in computer science and cognitive science from the University of Colorado Boulder, a Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in computer science and mathematics from Coe College, with postdoctoral work at UMass Amherst. Based in Atlanta, he has a track record of building research programs and advancing scalable NLP systems that bridge theory and real-world dialogue applications.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (113)
digital-humanities10
prefix10
computational-linguistics10
crf10
mining10
guidelines10
nlp10
corenlp10
part-of-speech-tagger10
sequence-labeling10
bag-of-words10
lemmatization10
java10
allennlp10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
acl-org/acl-2023
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Repository for the ACL 2023 conference website
Contributions:73 commits, 3 PRs, 158 pushes in 6 months
aclconference-website
emory-courses/nlp-essentials
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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