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
- Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
- Keynote Lecturer, Conference on Motor Speech, Albuquerque, NM, March 18-21, 2004
- Zemlin Lecturer (recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of speech
science) at the annual convention of the American Speech, Language and Hearing
Assn., Philadelphia, Nov. 18-20, 2004