Kyunghyun Cho is a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University (NYU), holding dual appointments at the Courant Institute and the Center for Data Science. He serves as the Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics and Co-Director of the Global Frontier AI Lab (with Yann LeCun). His research focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, and their applications in healthcare and biology. Cho received his PhD from Aalto University (2014) and has held positions at Facebook AI Research (2017-2020) and as a postdoc at the University of Montreal under Yoshua Bengio. He has organized major conferences including ICLR, NeurIPS, and ICML, and co-founded the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). His awards include the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Engineering (2021) and CIFAR Fellowship. Current projects include causal inference frameworks, antibody design via AI, and multimodal healthcare systems. Cho's work bridges foundational ML theory and practical applications in biomedicine, with recent focus on generative models, cross-cultural benchmarking (BLEND), and lab-in-the-loop protein engineering.










