Professor and Chair
Columbia University

Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Columbia University. She previously worked at Bell laboratories and AT&T Labs where she created the HCI Research Department. She has been editor of Computational Linguistics and Speech Communication, is a fellow of AAAI, ISCA, ACL, and ACM, and received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement. She serves on the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, the CRA-W Board, and has worked for diversity for many years at AT&T and Columbia.