KAIST
Aalto University
Joan BrunaResearcher
New York University
Professor
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Researcher · Academic
Kyunghyun Cho
Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University
Cho co-created the GRU, a compact neural-network memory mechanism, and helped introduce attention-based neural machine translation, which lets models focus on relevant parts of a sentence while translating.
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Current role
Professor of Computer Science and Data Science 2023-presentNew York University
New York UniversityPreviously
2021-2026Senior Director of Frontier Research -> Executive Director of Frontier Research, 
Genentech
Genentech2017-2020Research Scientist (Part-time), 
Meta
Meta2014-2015Postdoc, 
Université de Montréal
Université de MontréalEducation
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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