Stephen Levinson received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 1974. From 1976 to 1997, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, from 1990 to 1997, as head of the Linguistics and Research Department. He is a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a full-time Beckman Institute faculty member in the Artificial Intelligence Group. His fields of professional interest are speech synthesis, speech recognition, automatic natural language understanding, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.
Honors: AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (1990); IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (1986); Sigma Xi Research Prize (1974).