NYU Center for Data Science's Kyunghyun Cho selected as 2017 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

Kyunghyun Cho, an Assistant Professor at NYU's Center for Data Science (CDS) and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been selected as a 2017 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. CIFAR is a global research institute that connects leading scholars through interdisciplinary research programs like child and brain development, cosmology, genetic networks, learning machines and brains, and more. Founded in 1982, as many as 18 Nobel Laureates have since been associated with CIFAR, and its selected researchers and fellows are continually amongst the most highly cited scholars in their fields. Supported by the Azrieli Foundation, CIFAR's two year program offers the opportunity for researchers like Cho be mentored by other experts in his field, as well as exchange ideas with industry leaders outside of academia. He will also receive $100,000 to support his work, which has already significant contributions to fields like medicine and neural machine translation.