Jaesik Choi
Scholar

Jaesik Choi

Google Scholar ID: RqMLVzUAAAAJ
Director of Explainable Artificial Intelligence Center at KAIST
Explainable AIInterpretabilityPredictionTime Series AnalysisRelational Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
4,523
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
47
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
147
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • March 2025: INEEJI confirmed to hold a national strategic technology by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea
  • March 2025: Second Ph.D. student, Dr. Haedong Jeong, appointed as an assistant professor at Sogang University
  • January 2025: Appointed as an associate member of the Korean National Academy of Engineering
  • June 2024: Co-authored paper 'Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions' published in Information Fusion
  • March 2024: First Ph.D. student, Dr. Anh Tong, appointed as an assistant professor at Korea University
  • May 2022: INEEJI received Series A funding of 11.1 billion KRW
  • June 2022: Received appreciation plaque from Samsung Electronics for explainable speech recognition
  • May 2022: INEEJI received pre-Series A funding of 5.5 billion KRW
  • April 2022: Leading a new XAI project with a budget of 13 billion KRW, granted by the Ministry of Science and ICT
  • January 2023: Co-organized and presented at the IPAM Explainable AI for the Sciences: Towards Novel Insights Workshop
Research Experience
  • March 2025 - Present: KAIST Endowed Chair Professor
  • September 2024 - Present: Full Professor at Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST
  • September 2019 - August 2024: Associate Professor at Graduate School of AI, KAIST
  • July 2013 - August 2017: Assistant Professor at UNIST
  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012)
  • B.S. in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University (2004)
Background
  • Research Interests: Learning and inference with large scale, complex systems, explainable machine learning models, and spatio-temporal data analysis. Professional Field: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Miscellany
  • Current Director of Explainable Artificial Intelligence Center
  • Former Associate Professor at Graduate School of AI, KAIST
  • Former Distinguished Associate Professor at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNIST
  • CEO of INEEJI