Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Member of the Linguistic Society of America; Member of the Cognitive Science Society; Elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019; Became a member of Academia Europaea in 2024; Founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.
Research Experience
Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories; Faculty member at Northwestern University, served as department chair and director of graduate studies; Moved to Oxford in May 2015, serving as Professor of Language Modelling.
Education
Undergraduate at Harvard University, majoring in Linguistics and Mathematics; Ph.D. from MIT, developing a model of English prosody and intonation.
Background
Research Interests: Experimental and computational linguistics. Professional Field: Language modeling, natural language processing. Profile: Professor of Language Modelling at the Oxford e-Research Centre, with a research group focused on computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Miscellany
Professor at the Oxford e-Research Centre; Member of the Department of Engineering Science; Faculty member of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College; Member of the Oxford ELLIS Unit; Associate Member of the Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance; External Faculty at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems.