Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois)

Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (Fellow of the ASA, 2011, Fellow of the IEEE, 2020) has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois (ECE Department) since 1999. His Ph.D. thesis (MIT, 1996), "Formant and Burst Spectral Measures with Quantitative Error Models for Speech Sound Classification," initiated a lifelong career in the mathematical representation of linguistic knowledge. He is Treasurer of ISCA, Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language, a reviewer for the NSF, NIH, EPSRC, NWO, and QNRF, and was plenary speaker at the 2020 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.