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Jaesik Choi is a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor from March 2025 and a full professor of Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at KAIST since September 2024. He is also a director of Explainable Artificial Intelligent Center established by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea. He had been an associate professor of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at KAIST since September 2019. He had been the Rising-Star Distinguished associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNIST (Ulsan, Korea) and an affiliate researcher of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (the Berkeley Lab) until August 2019. He had been an assistant professor at UNIST from July 2013 to August 2017. He was a Computer Scientist Postdoctoral Fellow of Computational Research Division at the Berkeley Lab. His research focuses on learning and inference with large scale, complex systems, explainable machine learning models and spatio-temporal data analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012) and received B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University (2004).