YooJung Choi
Scholar

YooJung Choi

Google Scholar ID: VCtamFwAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningProbabilistic Circuits
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
770
 
H-index
12
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
12
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • September 2025: Paper 'On the Hardness of Approximating Distributions with Probabilistic Circuits' accepted at NeurIPS 2025 as a spotlight!
  • May 2025: Paper 'Optimal Transport for Probabilistic Circuits' accepted at UAI 2025!
  • October 2024: Gave a talk in the Dr. Frederica Darema Lecture Series at Illinois Institute of Technology.
  • September 2024: Paper 'A Compositional Atlas for Algebraic Circuits' accepted at NeurIPS 2024!
  • May 2024: Co-organized the TPM 2024 Workshop at UAI 2024 in Barcelona!
Research Experience
  • Before joining ASU, conducted research at UCLA; visiting the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley in Fall 2023.
Education
  • PhD from the Computer Science department at UCLA, advised by Guy Van den Broeck.
Background
  • Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University. Research interests include probabilistic reasoning and learning (tractable probabilistic models, graphical models, knowledge compilation) and trustworthy AI/ML (robustness, fairness, explainability, and more).
Miscellany
  • Contact: yj.choi at asu.edu; Personal website powered by Jekyll & AcademicPages, a fork of Minimal Mistakes.