Kahyun Choi

Kahyun Choi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Previously, she held the same position at Indiana University Bloomington (2019–2024). She earned her PhD in Library and Information Science from UIUC and worked as a software engineer at Naver, Korea's leading internet portal, prior to her academic career.

Her research bridges technology and the humanities, focusing on ethical AI workflows for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs), music information retrieval, computational poetic text analysis, and public library-based AI education. Notable recognitions include the 2023 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award and the 2022 IMLS Early Career Research Development Project Grant.

Recent work highlights include analyzing poetry reading audio's acoustic patterns, developing text complexity models using word embeddings, and designing AI literacy programs for K-12 education. Her publications span conferences like ICASSP, iConference, and ASIS&T, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with machine learning, natural language processing, and cultural informatics.

Awards include teaching excellence (2023 IU Trustees Award), research grants (IMLS 2021/2022), and the Luddy Faculty Fellowship (2021). Her work emphasizes equitable AI implementation, ethical practices, and collaborative research between universities and public libraries.