Nayoung Choi
Nayoung Choi is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science and Informatics at Emory University (in progress).
Education
- PhD in Computer Science and Informatics, Emory University (in progress)
- MA in Digital Analytics, Yonsei University (2022) - South Korea
- BA in Library and Information Science, Sungkyunkwan University (2018) - South Korea
Achievements
- Excellence in Research Assistance — Emory Computer Science (05/2026)
- Innovation of the Year — Emory Office of Technology Transfer (04/2026)
Publications
- Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2026
- Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2026
- Reference-Aligned Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering over Heterogeneous Proprietary Documents — ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025
- Secure Multifaceted-RAG: Hybrid Knowledge Retrieval with Security Filtering — Information: Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems Based on Large Language Models, 2025
- RRADistill: Distilling LLMs' Passage Ranking Ability for Long-Tail Queries Document Re-Ranking on a Search Engine — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Industry Track, 2024
- SLM as Guardian: Pioneering AI Safety with Small Language Model — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Industry Track, 2024
- Analysis of Zero-Shot Crosslingual Learning between English and Korean for Named Entity Recognition — EMNLP Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL), 2021
- FantasyCoref: Coreference Resolution on Fantasy Literature Through Omniscient Writer’s Point of View — EMNLP Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC), 2021