Human Language Technology
Clifford J. Weinstein
Dr. Clifford J. Weinstein
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Human Language Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
voice: 781-981-7621
fax: 781-981-0186
email: cjw@ll.mit.edu
Dr. Clifford J. Weinstein leads the Human Language Technology Group and is responsible for initiating and managing research programs in speech technology, machine translation, and information assurance. Dr. Weinstein joined Lincoln Laboratory as an MIT graduate student in 1967, and became Leader of the Speech Systems Technology Group (now Human Language Technology group) in 1979. He has made technical contributions and carried out leadership roles in research programs in speech recognition, speech coding, machine translation, speech enhancement, social network analysis, packet speech communications, information system assurance and survivability, integrated voice/data communication networks, digital signal processing, and radar signal processing.
Dr. Weinstein has published numerous papers in these areas, six of which were selected for reprint in IEEE Press books. He has co-authored two papers which won Best Paper awards: at MILCOM 2004 on robust collaborative multicast, and at IEEE Aerospace 2009 on social network analysis and intent recognition.
In 1999, he was appointed to the DARPA Information Sciences and Technology (ISAT) Panel, a group which provides DARPA with continuing assessments of the state of advanced information science and technology, and its relationship to DoD issues. As an ISAT member (1999-2003), he co-chaired a 2001 ISAT study on "Vigilant High Confidence Systems" and a 2003 ISAT study on "Automated Intent Recognition on Distributed Organizations."
In 1993, Dr. Weinstein was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Also in 1993, he was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE for technical leadership in speech recognition, packet speech, and integrated voice/data networks. From 1991-93, he was chairman of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Speech Processing. From 1976-78, he was chairman of that Society's Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing.
From 1989-1994, Dr. Weinstein was chairman of the coordinating committee for the DARPA Spoken Language Systems Program, which was the major U.S. research program in speech recognition and understanding, and which involved coordinated efforts of a number of leading U.S. research groups.
From 1986-1998, Dr. Weinstein was U.S. technical specialist on the NATO RSG10 (now IST-01) Speech Research Group, in which capacity he authored a comprehensive NATO report and journal article on opportunities for applications of advanced speech technology in military systems.
Dr. Weinstein received S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT.
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