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Educational Background

• University of Michigan, B.A. Linguistics (highest distinction), 1982
• University of Michigan, M.A.  Linguistics, 1983
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Linguistics, 1987

Academic Positions

Northwestern University, Linguistics

• 2016-present    Professor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Linguistics, Department of Computer Science, Beckman Institute for Science and Technology

• 2016-present   Emerita Professor
• 2010-2016        Professor
• 1998-2010        Associate Professor
• 1990-1998        Assistant Professor
• 1989-1990        Visiting Research Associate

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

• 2010-2016      Co-Chair of the Biological Intelligence Main Research Theme

Yale University, Department of Linguistics

• 1987-1989    Instructor

Honors 

• 1993-94, Center for Advanced Study Fellow, University of Illinois
• 1996-97, Humanities Released Time Award, University of Illinois
• 2002-03, Critical Research Initiative Award, University of Illinois
• 2004-05, Alumni Discretionary Award, University of Illinois
• 2014, Research Fellow, Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 2017-2018, Mercator Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
• 2017-2018, Distinguished Lecturer, International Speech Communication Association
• 2019- , Fellow, International Speech Communication Association
• 2020-, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science