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Roger Levy joined the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1996 and was a Fulbright Fellow in an inter-university program for Chinese language study in Taipei, Taiwan. He conducted research in biological anthropology at the University of Tokyo and completed his doctoral work at Stanford University under the direction of Christopher Manning in 2005. Levy has experience as a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and has held appointments at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the world’s Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory. His accolades include the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Recently, Levy received the MIT School of Science Teaching Prize for Undergraduate Education in 2023. He currently serves as President of the Cognitive Science Society and will be the Chair of the MIT Faculty in 2025. His research focuses on the processing and acquisition of natural language, analyzing how linguistic communication resolves uncertainty in the interpretation of potential meanings.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Joined the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.