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I am a professor in  the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, currently on sabbatical at KTH in Stockholm.  I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, after previously doing a PhD in sixteenth-century Mexican social history at the University of Michigan and teaching history at Smith. I 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 there.   I served as editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics from 1993-2003 and was an editor-in-chief of Speech Communication from 2003-2006 and am now on the Editorial Board. I was on the Executive Board of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) from 1993-2003, have been on the Permanent Council of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) since 1996, and served on the board of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 1999-2007 (as President 2005-2007). I am on the board of the CRA-W and have been active in working for diversity at AT&T and at Columbia. I have been a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence since 1994 and an ISCA Fellow since 2008. I received a Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association (CESAA) Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2009.

Julia Hirschberg
Professor, Computer Science

Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
1214 Amsterdam Avenue
M/C 0401
450 CS Building
New York, NY 10027

email: julia@cs.columbia.edu
phone: (212) 939-7114

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Current courses: Fall 2009: Computational Approaches to Emotional Speech