Mark Hasegawa-Johnson received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1996. He is an assistant professor in the University of Illinois department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a full-time faculty member in the Artificial Intelligence group at the Beckman Institute. His field of interest is speech production and recognition by humans and computers, including landmark-based speech recognition, integration of prosody in speech recognition and understanding, audiovisual speech recognition, computational auditory scene analysis, and biomedical imaging of the muscular and neurological correlates of speech production and perception.
Honors: Member, Articulograph International Steering Committee; CLSP Workshop leader, "Landmark-Based Speech Recognition" (2004), Invited paper; NAACL workshop on Linguistic and Higher-Level Knowledge Sources in Speech Recognition and Understanding (2004); List of faculty rated as excellent by their students (2003); NSF CAREER award (2002); NIH National Research Service Award (1998).