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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR JOSEPH S. PERKELL
POSITION TITLE
Senior Research Scientist
EDUCATION/TRAINING
| INSTITUTION AND LOCATION | DEGREE YEAR | FIELD OF STUDY |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | S.B. 1962 | Mechanical Engineering |
| Harvard School of Dental Medicine | D.M.D. 1967 | Dentistry |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ph.D. 1974 | Speech Communication |
Positions
| 1964-1967 | Division of Sponsored Research Staff Member, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1967-1969 | Active Duty, U.S. Army as a Dental Officer, one year at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts and one year in Viet Nam |
| 1969-1970 | N.I.H. Postdoctoral Trainee, Beginning of interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Speech Communication, M.I.T. |
| 1970-1973 | N.I.H. Special Fellow, M.I.T. |
| 1973-1974 | Instructor, Department of Electrical Engineering, M.I.T. |
| 1973-1976 | Part-time Assistant Dentist, Dental Clinic, M.I.T. |
| 1974-1980 | Research Associate, R.L.E., M.I.T. |
| 1976-1986 | Part-time General Dentist, private practice (one day/week) |
| 1979-1982 | Editorial Review Board, Linguistics |
| 1980-1989 | Principal Research Scientist, R.L.E., M.I.T. |
| 1984-1988 | Member, Communicative Disorders Review Committee, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health |
| 1984-1989 | Lecturer in Oral Diagnosis and Oral Radiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine |
| 1989-present | Senior Research Scientist, R.L.E. and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T. |
| 1992-present | Affiliated Faculty, Harvard-M.I.T. Graduate Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology |
| 1996-1997 | Co-Chair, Expert Panel on Speech and Speech Disorders Section, National Strategic Research Plan, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, N.I.H. |
| 1997-present | Adjunct Professor, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University |
Honors