- Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2017
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018
- Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI) Academy of Sciences in 2025
- Elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014
- Honorary Member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology in 2014
- Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm in 2007
- Honorary Doctorate from Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 2018
- Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association (CESAA) Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2009
- Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award in 2018
- IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2011
- ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement in 2011
- ISCA Special Service Medal in 2020
- Selected as the Fillmore Professor at the LSA Summer Institute in 2017
- Amazon Scholar (2020-2025)
Research Experience
- Worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories -- Research from 1985-2003 as a Member of Technical Staff and a Department Head, creating the Human-Computer Interface Research Department.
- Served as editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics from 1993-2003 and co-editor-in-chief of Speech Communication from 2003-2006.
Education
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Background
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science, and was Chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University from 2012-2018. Research interests include human-computer interaction, computational linguistics, and speech communication.
Miscellany
Has been active in working for diversity at AT&T and at Columbia.