Janet Pierrehumbert#
| Membership Number: | 6776 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jpierrehumbert/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5989-3574 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Professor of Language Modelling, Oxford e-Research Centre, Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
- 7/2021 Associate Member, Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, Dept. of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
- 2012 Adjunct Professor, New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour, University of Canterbury
- 2015 External Faculty Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
- 1993 - 2015 Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
- 12/2002 - 2015 Professor by Courtesy, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
- 2004 - 2015 Core Faculty, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
- 2005 - 2008 Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor, Northwestern University
- 1989 - 1993 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
- 1982 - 1989 Member of Technical Staff, Dept. of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Fields of Scholarship
- Speech technology
- Phonology
- Language processing
- Morphology
- Sound change
- Computational linguistics
- Language modeling
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Medal for Scientific Achievement, ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)
- 2019 Elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- 2013 Edward Sapir Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute (Ann Arbor, MI)
- 2013 Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
- 2012 Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
- 2010 Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June-August
- 2004 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June-August
- 1996 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
