Dr. Ho-Jin Choi is currently a professor in the School of Computing at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. In 1982, he received a BS in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1985, an MSc in Computing Software and Systems Design from Newcastle University, UK, and in 1995, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College London, UK. From 1982 to 1989, he worked as a senior engineer for Data Communications Co. of Korea (DACOM), Seoul, Korea, and between 1995 and 1996, as a post-doctoral researcher at IC-PARC, Imperial College London. From 1997 to 2002, he worked as an assistant professor in the School of Electronics, Information Communication, and Computer Engineering at Korea Aerospace University, Korea, then from 2002 he has been with KAIST. Between 2002 and 2003, he visited Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA, then served as an adjunct faculty for CMU Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program operated by the Institute for Software Research (ISR). Between 2006 and 2008, he served as the Director of Institute for IT Gifted Youth. Between 2019 and 2022, he served as the Chief of KAIST Convergence AMP and as the Chief of Software Graduate Program. Since 2018, he has served as the Director of Smart Energy Artificial Intelligence Research Center, and since 2020, as the Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR). Over the past 20 years, he served for the boards of directors for several academic communities such as the AI Society, the Software Engineering Society, and the Language Technology SIG within the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), and also for the Korean Society of Medical Informatics.

• Oct 1989-Dec 1995, PhD (Artificial Intelligence), Imperial College London, UK
• Oct 1984-Oct 1985, MSc (Computing Software & Systems Design), Newcastle University, UK
• Mar 1978-Feb 1982, BS (Computer Engineering), Seoul National University, Korea

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