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.