Welcome
Julia
Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of
Computer Science and was Chair of the Computer Science
Department at Columbia
University
from 2012-2018. She
received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked
at Bell Laboratories and AT&T
Laboratories -- Research from 1985-2003 as a
Member of Technical Staff and a Department Head,
creating the Human-Computer Interface Research
Department. She served as editor-in-chief of
Computational
Linguistics from 1993-2003 and
co-editor-in-chief of
Speech Communication from 2003-2006 and is
now on the Editorial Board. She was on the Executive
Board of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL) from
1993-2003, on the Permanent
Council of International Conference on Spoken Language
Processing (ICSLP) since 1996, and on the board of
the International
Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from
1999-2007 (as President 2005-2007, Advisory Council
2007--), on the Executive Board of the Computing
Research Association from 2013-2014, on the AAAI
Council from 2012-2015, and the Executive Board of
the North American Chapter of the ACL, 2012-2015,
and on the IEEE Speech and Language
Processing Technical Committee from 2011-2018. She co-chaired the CRA's Committee on Women
(CRA-WP) from 2016--2019 and has served as board member since 2009. She has
been active in working for diversity at AT&T and at
Columbia. She has been a AAAI fellow since
1994, an ISCA Fellow since 2008, a (founding) ACL
Fellow since 2011, an ACM Fellow since 2015, an IEEE
Fellow since 2017, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering since 2017, and a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018. She
was elected to the American Philosophical
Society in 2014 and as an Honorary Member of the Association for Laboratory
Phonology in the same year. She has received
honorary doctorates from the Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH) Stockholm in 2007 and from
Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 2018, a Columbia
Engineering School Alumni Association (CESAA)
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2009 and the
Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award in
2018. She received the IEEE
James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in
2011, and the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement in
2011. She was selected as the Fillmore Professor at the LSA
Summer Institute in 2017.
