Janet Pierrehumbert - Biography#

Janet Pierrehumbert is Professor of Language Modelling in the Oxford e-Research Centre, which is part of the Department of Engineering Science. She has carried out interdisciplinary research in experimental and computational linguistics throughout her career. As an undergraduate at Harvard, she studied linguistics and mathematics. Her Ph.D thesis from MIT developed a model of English prosody and intonation. Much of the research was carried out in the Linguistics and AI Research Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she also served as a Member of Technical Staff. She then joined the Linguistics faculty at Northwestern University, where she served terms as department chair and director of graduate studies. She moved to Oxford in May, 2015. She has a courtesy appointment at Oxford in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, and is an Associate Member of the Oxford Man Institute. She teaches the Introduction to Statistical Natural Language Processing module for Oxford's postgraduate program in Social Data Science. She is one of the founding members of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Linguistic Society of America, and the Cognitive Science Society; and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.