YJ Choe
Assistant Professor at INSEAD
Singapore
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Top SchoolYJ Choe is an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD Singapore with 11 years of experience at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and applied deep learning. He earned a Ph.D. in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and previously served as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago’s Data Science Institute. Before academia he worked as a research scientist focused on deep learning and natural language processing at Kakao and KakaoBrain, bringing industry-grade ML research to production contexts. His work bridges rigorous probabilistic modeling and practical NLP systems, reflecting a blend of theoretical depth and engineering pragmatism. Based in Singapore, he maintains an up-to-date academic and project portfolio at yjchoe.github.io, signaling active engagement in both research dissemination and applied ML. Colleagues note his ability to translate complex statistical ideas into decision-facing tools for business and policy.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Hankuk Academy of Foreign StudiesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Chicago
English, Korean
Github Skills (26)
french10
similarity9
localization9
sequential9
sentence-similarity8
statistics8
nmt8
uniform8
uniform-distribution8
translation8
machine-translation7
neural7
forecasting7
python7
dictionary6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yjchoe/deep_learning
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 5 months
js-lee-AI/nlp-paper-reading
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Paper reading notes from Kakao Brain's NLP team.
Contributions:5 commits in 2 months
nlpbrainnotesreading-notespaper-reading
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