Julia Hirschberg
| Julia Hirschberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Liberty, Missouri |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Natural Language Processing |
| Awards |
National Academy of Engineering (2017) ACM Fellow (2015)AAAI Fellow (1994) ISCA Fellow (2011) Honorary Doctorate (Hedersdoktor) KTH (2007) Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching award (2009) IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award (2011) ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement (2011) |
| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | A Theory of Scalar Implicature (1985) |
National Academy of Engineering (2017)
Julia Hirschberg is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computational linguistics and natural language processing. She is currently the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and is serving as Chair of the Computer Science Department. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as a member of CRA-W since 2010.
Hirschberg received her first Ph.D degree in History (16th-century Mexico) from University of Michigan in 1976. She served on the History faculty of Smith College from 1974 to 1982. She subsequently shifted to Computer Science studies, receiving her M.S. in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and a Ph.D in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
Upon graduation from University of Pennsylvania in 1985, Hirschberg joined AT&T Bell Labs as a Member of Technical staff in the Linguistics Research Department, where she worked on improving prosody assignment for Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) in the Bell Labs TTS system. She was promoted to Department Head in 1994 when she created a new Human Computer Interface Research Lab. She and her department remained at Bell Labs until 1996 when they moved to AT&T Labs Research as part of a corporate reorganization. In 2002, she joined the Columbia University faculty as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science.
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