Jennifer Cole is a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group. She is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Computer Science. Cole received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987, and taught at Yale University (1987-1989) prior to joining U of I in 1990. Her research interests relate to spoken language and include phonology, phonetics, human speech processing, and computational linguistics.
Honors: 2010-2014, Elected Member-at-large, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section Z (Linguistics); 2009- 2014, General Editor, Laboratory Phonology; U of I Critical Research Initiative Award (with Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, 2002-2004); U of I Humanities Released Time Award (1996-97); U of I Center for Advanced Study Fellow (1993-94).