Nayoung Choi

🏆 Received the Outstanding Application Award at SIGDIAL 2026 for Tinker Tales (Aug 2026). [paper]

🏆 Received the Excellence in Research Assistance Award from Emory Computer Science (May 2026).

🏆 Received the Innovation of the Year Award for Tinker Tales at Emory’s 20th Annual Celebration of Technology and Innovation (Apr 2026). [article]

📢 Gave a media interview on sLLM distillation for NAVER Search ranking (Apr 2024). [article]

🏆 Placed 3rd in NAVER AI RUSH and joined NAVER (Jan 2022). [video]

🏆 Won 2nd place at the Big Contest hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (Dec 2020). [video]