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About Me

I’m looking for PhD students to join me in exploring Music Information Retrieval and Digital Humanities. If interested, I encourage you to apply to our PhD program!

Kahyun Choi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before pursuing her Ph.D., she worked as a software engineer at Naver, an Internet portal in Korea. Kahyun Choi’s research interests involve the application of computational methods and machine learning algorithms to various modalities, including audio and text. Her expertise is at the intersection of technology and the humanities, focusing on ethical AI workflows for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs), music information retrieval, public library-based AI education programs, and computational poetic text analysis. As a researcher and educator, she has been recognized with several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the 2023 IU Trustees Teaching Award, the 2022 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Early Career Research Development Project Grant, the 2021 IMLS National Leadership Grant, and the 2021 Luddy Faculty Fellowship.

Contact

501 E. Daniel St. MC-493
Champaign, IL61820-6211
kahyun AT illinois DOT edu