Meet the Faculty: Eunsol Choi

This entry is a part of our Meet the Faculty blog series, which introduces and highlights faculty who have recently joined CDS.

Meet Eunsol Choi, who will join CDS this fall as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science. Choi’s research focuses on helping computers understand human language in real-world contexts.

“When real people speak, they make assumptions, and the interpretation of the same statement changes depending on the context and their communicative goals,” Choi said. “I’m trying to make models interact with language more similarly to how we actually talk and communicate.”

Choi comes to CDS from the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been an assistant professor in the computer science department since 2020. Prior to that, she was a visiting faculty researcher at Google AI in New York City. Choi completed her PhD in computer science at the University of Washington in 2019, advised by Luke Zettlemoyer and Yejin Choi.

Her current research interests include continual learning and knowledge editing for language models, long-form question-answering, human–AI interaction, and spoken language processing. Choi is particularly excited about the interdisciplinary opportunities at CDS.

“I like the interdisciplinary aspect. I like the idea of working with people from psychology, music, and other fields. It really opens up horizons for creative research,” Choi said.

Choi is also excited to come back to vibrant New York City itself. “Being in New York City is exciting. There are many opportunities for collaborations — companies as well as universities.”

By Stephen Thomas