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Annual Awards 2026
May 6, 2026
Two students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Nayoung Choi: Excellence in Research Assistance - Henry Gao: Undergraduate Research Award
Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Henry Gao - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Dat…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a news article on *Does loving an AI companion sound crazy? You might be closer than you think*, featuring Dr. Jinho Choi.
Tinker Tales, an interactive storytelling platform that teaches AI literacy to young learners through play, developed by Jinho Choi, Ikseon Choi, and Nayoung Choi, received the Innovation of the Year Award from the Emor…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited virtual seminar, *Conversational AI Applications Across Education, Healthcare, and Enterprise*, for Dataminr. Thanks to Dr. Joel Tetreault for the invitation.
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited seminar, *Faith and the Future of AI*, for the Miami Church/Clergy Association in Miami, Florida. Thanks to Pastor Seongyeom Joo and Pastor Steven Jhu for the invitation. <div class="highl…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited seminar, *Conversational AI Applications across Education, Healthcare, and Enterprise*, at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. Thanks to Dr. Harksoo Kim for the invitation.
Emory NLP sponsored Emory Hacks - Fall 2025, presented by PROJECT Emory. Dr. Jinho Choi serves as a faculty advisor, and Taeun Kim is the vice president of PROJECT Emory. <!-- See the project gallery for more details. -…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a distinguished talk, *Conversational AI Applications across Education, Healthcare, and Enterprise*, at the Joint Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and Korean-American Women…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited virtual seminar, *Conversational AI Applications across Education, Healthcare, and Enterprise*, for the Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America (KOCSEA). Thanks to…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invite talk on "The Age of AI and Church" at the National Pastors Conference 2025 in Duluth, Georgia. <div class="highlight-md-embed" role="region" aria-label="YouTube video: National Pastors Conf…
Three papers from Emory NLP are presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025: 1. Finding A Voice: Exploring the Potential of African American Dialect and Voice Generation f…
Three undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Andrew Chung - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Low Resource RAG: From Slide Data Processing to RAG Systems Tung Dinh - High Honor…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from Emory University: - Andrew Chung (Senior): Undergraduate Research Award, Emory Computer Science - Molly Han: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Emory NLP sponsored Emory Hacks - Spring 2025, presented by PROJECT Emory. Dr. Jinho Choi serves as a faculty advisor for this initiative, and Andrew Chung is the president of PROJECT Emory. See the project gallery for…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a keynote talk at the AAAI Workshop on Towards a Knowledge-Grounded Scientific Research Lifecycle. Special thanks to Dr. Qingyun Wang for the invitation.
Emory NLP hosted the 2025 North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (Local Organizer: Dr. Jinho Choi). Four students from high schools in Georgia participated in the open competition. Here is a list of c…
Four papers from Emory NLP are presented at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2024: 1. Diverse and Effective Synthetic Data Generation for Adaptable Zero-Shot Dialogue State Trac…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a keynote speech at the Joint Conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology, Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (HCLT-KACL) 2024. Special thanks to Dr. Seung-Hoon Na, committee chair o…
Two papers from Emory NLP are presented at the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) 2024: 1. Transforming Slot Schema Induction with Generative Dialogue State Inference. James…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a broadcast seminar on *Direction of Media and Ministry in the AI Age* for C-Channel Broadcasting Corporation in Seoul, South Korea. <div class="highlight-md-embed" role="region" aria-label="YouTube…
Dr. Jinho D. Choi presented a keynote speech at Holistic Global Citizenship Week H.U.M.A.N. in Creation 2024, hosted by Handong Global University, exploring what values AI will teach the next generation and the implicat…
Dr. Jinho D. Choi delivered a keynote speech on "What values will AI teach the next generation" at the Fondant Media Conference 2024, hosted by Christian Global Network (CGN) in Seoul, South Korea. <div class="highlight…
Two students from Emory NLP earned PhD in Computer Science and Informatics: James Finch - Dissertation: Leveraging Diverse Data Generation for Domain-Adaptable Dialogue State Tracking Sarah Finch - Dissertation: Enrichi…
Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Jacob Choi - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: When Large Language Models Meet Religious Text Ellie Paek - Highest Honor in Computer…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Ellie Paek: Academic Achievement Award - Peilin Wu: Undergraduate Research Award
SouthNLP 2024, hosted by Emory University (General Chair: Jinho Choi), proved to be a fruitful and vibrant symposium. With 150+ attendees representing 20+ schools, the event was a resounding success. Heartfelt gratitude…
Emory NLP hosted the 2024 North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (Local Organizer: Dr. Jinho Choi). Nine students from high schools in Georgia and Alabama participated in the open competition. Here is…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a special invited talk at the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association Fall Conference 2023. Special thanks to Dr. Yongdae Kim, the president of the Korea AI Association and a professor of Statistic…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited talk at the Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice Seminar hosted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Special thanks to Dr. Dwi Sianto Mansjur for extending the in…
Three papers from Emory NLP are presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023: 1. Don’t Forget Your ABC’s: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems.…
The M||E team from Emory University qualified for the ICPC North America Championship 2023 for the fourth consecutive time. The championship was held at the University of Central Florida. Here is a list of the team memb…
Three students from Emory NLP earned PhDs in Computer Science and Informatics: Han He - Dissertation: Computational Structures as Neural Symbolic Representation Zihao Wang - Dissertation: Contextual Embedding Representa…
Three undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Camila Calviño - Highest Honor in Quantitative Theory and Methods - Thesis: The Emora College Companion: A Socialbot for College Students Che…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Alexandru Rudi (Junior): Outstanding CS Student of the Year Award - Chen Gong (Senior): Undergraduate Rese…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited speech at the Korean Cultural Night hosted by Korean organizations, KISEM and KUSA, at Emory to promote Korean culture on campus. Thanks to Hasong Cho for the invitation.
The M||E (pronounced, ɛm·ɔr·ee) team from Emory University won the gold medal for Augusta site and the bronze medal at the International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region. It is the fourth consecutive…
One paper from Emory NLP is presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023: 1. DFEE: Interactive DataFlow Execution and Evaluation Kit. Han He, Song Feng, Daniele Bonadiman, Yi Zhang, Saab Manso…
Emory NLP hosted the 2023 North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (Local Organizer: Dr. Jinho Choi). Four students from high schools in Georgia and Alabama participated in the open competition. Here is…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a talk at the Emory AI Ethics Faculty Working Group. The titile of Dr. Choi's talk was "Bringing Conversational Al from Research into Practice". Thanks to Dr. Paul Root Wolpe for the invitation.
One paper from Emory NLP is presented at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 2022: 1. Automatic Generation of Large-scale Multi-turn Dialogues from Reddit. Daniil Huryn, William M. Hutsell…
One paper from Emory NLP is presented at the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2022: 1. Modeling Explicit Task Interactions in Document-Level Joint…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave seminars at three universities in Korea: - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) - Seoul National University (SNU) - Yonsei Univesrity Thanks to Dr. Sung-Ju Lee (KAIST), Dr. Hyop…
The M||E team from Emory University qualified for the ICPC North America Championship 2022 for the third consecutive time. The championship was held at the University of Central Florida. Here is a list of the team membe…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a seminar at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences Colloquium at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Thanks to Dr. Jieun Song for hosting.
Six undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Angela Cao - Highest Honor in Linguistics - Thesis: An Analysis of Causal Language Constructions in Diverse Discourse Data Yingying Chen - High…
Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Sophy Huang (Senior): Trevor Evans Award - Daniil Huryn (Senior): Chair's Award - Mack Hutsell (Senior):…
The M||E (pronounced, ɛm·ɔr·ee) team from Emory University won the silver medal at the International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region for Division 1. The contest was held at Mercer University. It is…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a talk at TEDxEmory 2022. The theme of this year's conference was "Exigent: If Not Now, When?", and the title of Dr. Choi's talk was "How should we prepare for the ear of AI?". Thanks to Tia Bakhaya…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited talk at the SyntaxFest 2022 for the International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. Thanks to Dr. Sandra Kübler for the invitation and Dr. Kilian Evang for hosting the talk.
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a keynote talk at the International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology 2021, hosted by the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a talk at the Emory Board of Visitors meeting about the Emora project and participated in panel discussions with two of his PhD students, James Finch and Sarah Finch. Thanks to Kes Robinson and Gayat…
Dr. Jinho Choi, Sarah Finch, and James Finch were invited for a live podcast at the Emory 2036 campaign. Thanks to Munir Meghjani for hosting us. <div class="highlight-md-embed" role="region" aria-label="YouTube video:…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited talk at the Global AI Forum 2021 hosted by Ministry of Science and ICT in South Korea. Thanks to the Institution of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation for organi…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a talk to the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology. Thanks to Dr. Lelia Glass for hosting. Quotes from students: *Prior to this talk, I had not really questioned how voice as…
The Emory News Center published a news article on *Emory students advance artificial intelligence with a bot that aims to serve humanity*. <div class="highlight-md-embed highlight-md-embed--audio" role="region" aria-lab…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a seminar to the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at Pohang University of Science and Technology. Thanks to Dr. Geunbae (Gary) Lee for hosting.
The Emora team made it to the Finals of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4. It is the second consecutive year that the Emora team has made to the Finals of this competition. The Finals will take place on July 2…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited talk at the NSF Future Directions Workshop on the Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog (AED). Thanks to Dr. Maxine Eskenazi, who is a Principal Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon U…
Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Lydia Feng - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: WISeN: Widely Interpretable Semantic Network for Richer Meaning Representation Chenxi…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave an invited talk about the current version of Emora, followed by a panel discussion at the Emory QTM DataBlitz 2021. <div class="highlight-md-embed" role="region" aria-label="YouTube video: Emory QTM…
Five undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Ran Xu (Senior): Chair's Award - Lydia Feng (Senior): Outstanding Student Award - Xinman Zhang (Senior):…
The M||E team from Emory University won the bronze medal at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region for Division 1. The contest was held virtually due to the pandemic. It is the second…
Sarah Finch, James Finch, and Jinho Choi had an interview with Humanitarian AI Today about their winning strategy of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3. Sarah Finch and James Finch were the two team leads of th…
Dr. Jinho Choi received the "Professor of the Year" Award from the Computer Science department at Emory University. Here is a list of recipients for all awards this year: - Educator of the Year: Nosayba El-Sayed (Lectur…
The Emora team won the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3. Our final average rating was 3.81 compared to 3.17 and 3.14 achieved by the 2nd and 3rd-place winners, Stanford University and Czech Technical University,…
Amazon Science published an article on *Emory University team wins Alexa Prize Grand Challenge 3*. <div class="highlight-md-embed" role="region" aria-label="YouTube video: Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 3"> <ifra…
Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Haoqi Gu - High Honor in Applied Mathematics and Statistics - Thesis: Level-based Resume Classification on Nursing Job Positions Chloe Lee - H…
Two graduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Laney Graduate School: - Sarah Finch (PhD student): Chris Schoettle Graduate Research Award - Changmao Li (MS student): Chris Schoettle Gradua…
The M||E team from Emory University made it to the ICPC North America Championship 2020 for the first time. The championship was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Here is a list of the team members: - Alexand…
Dr. Jinho Choi gave a keynote speech at the International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (CONFLUENCE) hosted by Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Choi was also awarded for the…
Dr. Jinho Choi hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition. Ten students from several high schools in Georgia participated in this open competition. Here is a list of contestants: - Carmen Haley…
The M||E team from Emory University won the 3rd-place at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region for Division 1. The contest was held at Kennesaw State University. It was the first tim…
One paper from Emory NLP is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2019: 1. Meta-Semantic Representation for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease. Jinho D. Choi, Mengmei…
Five undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Jose Coves - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: End-to-end Plural Coreference Resolution on TV Show Transcripts Shen Gao - Highest Ho…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Jose Coves (Senior): Outstanding Student Award - Zhengzhe Yang (Senior): Academic Excellence Award
Dr. Jinho Choi hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition. Ten students from several high schools in Georgia participated in this open competition. Here is a list of contestants: - Dean Barry -…
Dr. Jinho Choi was interviewed on the This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (TWiML&AI) Podcast about *Language Parsing and Character Mining with Deep Learning*, recorded in Las Vegas, Nevada. <div clas…
Dr. Jinho Choi and Gary Lai gave a chalk talk, How Emory University Built an NLP Platform Using Apache MXNet and GluonNLP at the AWS re:Invent 2018 and presented the cloud-based NLP research platform called ELIT (Emory…
The M||E team from Emory University won the 1st-place at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region for Division 2. The contest was held at Kennesaw State University. It is the second con…
A graduate from Emory NLP earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Informatics: Tomasz Jurczyk - Dissertation: Improving Question Answering by Bridging Linguistic Structures and Statistical Learning
Five undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Jayeol Chun - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Dependency Analysis of Abstract Universal Structures in Korean and English Hang Jian…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Kaixin Ma (Senior): Trevor Evans Award - Jose Coves (Junior): Chair's Award
The M||E team from Emory University won the 1st-place at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region for Division 2. The contest was held at Kennesaw State University. It is the first time…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Henry Chen - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Character Identification on Multi-party Dialogues Tarrek Shaban - Highest Honor in Com…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Henry Chen (Senior): Trevor Evans Award - Ethan Zhou (Junior): Chair's Award
The Null Contest team from Emory University won the 3rd-place at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region for Division 2. The contest was held at Kennesaw State University. Here is a li…
Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Meera Hahn - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Advances in Methods and Evaluations for Distributional Semantic Models using Computati…
The Null Contest team from Emory University won the 2nd-place at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest: Southeast USA Region for Division 2. The contest was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He…
An undergraduate student from Emory NLP earned his degree with honors: Austin Blodgett - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: The Verbiverse: Creating a Verb Space with Comparative Methods of Distributional Seman…
