Kyunghyun Cho
Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics and Professor of Computer Science & Data Science, NYU; Co-Head, Global AI Frontier Lab
Organization
New York University
Position
Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics and Professor of Computer Science & Data Science, NYU; Co-Head, Global AI Frontier Lab
Intelligence Briefing
Co-invented the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) and co-authored the seminal 2014 paper on attention-based neural machine translation with Bahdanau and Bengio, laying the foundation for the Transformer architecture. Named Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics at NYU in 2025. Co-heads the Global AI Frontier Lab at NYU with Yann LeCun (launched 2024). Samsung Ho-Am Prize winner (2021). CIFAR Fellow. Served as program chair for ICLR 2020, NeurIPS 2022, and ICML 2022.
BS, Computer Science — KAIST
MSc, Machine Learning and Data Mining — Aalto University
DSc, Computer Science — Aalto University
AGI Position Assessment
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Supports responsible AI development with emphasis on reproducibility and scientific rigor.
Supports responsible AI development with emphasis on reproducibility and scientific rigor.
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Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10