Science and Policy Leadership and Community Service Roles
Fellow of the IEEE, Jan. 2025 - present
President, Rothschild Wilder, Jan. 2024 - present
Chair, Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories, Jan. 1, 2023 - present
Past President, Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS), Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2025
President, Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS), Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2023
Member, International Selection Committee, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, The Franklin Institute, Sep. 2021 - 2022
Member, Advisory Board for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator, RISE: Reimagining Innovation in STEM Education for Human and Social Good. 2021
President-elect of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), starting Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2021
Board of Directors, Emeritus, impact of Gender/Sex on Innovation and Novel Technologies (iGIANT), 2020 - present
Vice Chair, University of Connecticut (UConn) Board of Trustees, for the Research, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Committee, Oct. 2019 - present
National Neuroscience Advisory Board, BrainMind, May 2019 - present
Member, Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories, Oct. 2018 - present
Chair, Development Committee, Haskins Board of Directors, Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2022
Member, Board of Trustees, University of Connecticut (UConn); also a member of the Academic Affairs, Finance, and Honors & Awards committees, Dec. 8, 2017 - present
Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships (CISP), Large Scale Science Working Group, 2017 - 2023
Oversaw the workshop review process, National Academies Decadal Survey, Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security, 2017 - 2018
Member, National Academy of Public Administration’s NASA Advisory Council: Organizational Assessment panel, 2017 - 2018
Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), Feb. 2017 - present
Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Haskins Laboratories, 2016 - present
Director and Treasurer, impact of Gender/Sex on Innovation and Novel Technologies (iGIANT), 2016 - 2021.
Member, Advisory Board, The Affinity Project, Inc. (now BongoMedia), Cambridge, MA, 2015 - 2021
Co-chair, Common Rule Modernization Working Group, White House OSTP, Feb. 2014 - Feb. 2015
Senior Advisor to the President, Haskins Laboratories, Feb. 2015 - June 2017
Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Commission on Language Learning, 2015 - 2021
Member, Beyond Conflict Scientific Advisory Committee, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2015 - present
Fellow of the Psychonomic Society, 2015 - present
Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2014 - present
Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), Nov. 2013 - present
Senior Member of the IEEE, Aug. 2012 - present
Senior Advisor to the President, Executive Office of the President of the United States, 2015
Principal Assistant Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Executive Office of the President of the United States, June 2012 - 2015
Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, OSTP, Feb. 2012 - 2015
Co-Chair of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Committee on Science (with Francis Collins, Director of NIH, and Subra Suresh, Director of the NSF), June 2012 - July 2014
Member, Executive Committee, STAR METRICS, a Federal collaboration with research institutions, June 2012 - Feb. 2015
Administrative lead for the White House neuroscience initiative, Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2015
Senior Advisor, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation, Feb. 2012 - 2015
Acoustical Society of America representative to the AAAS Section Committee on Linguistics & Language Science, 2010 - present
Co-leader of Teagle Foundation Yale University – Haskins Laboratories Collegium on Student Learning (with Michael Holquist and Kenneth Pugh), June 2008 - Feb. 2012
Board of Trustees, Les Birkmaier Fund, Bridgeport, CT, July 2007 – Feb. 2012
Chair, National Academies’ Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, July 2006 - Dec. 2011
Steering Committee, Yale University Whitney Humanities Center “Mind, Brain, Culture, and Consciousness” group, Apr. 2006 - Dec. 2011
Visiting Research Fellow, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2011
Subcommittee of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, American Association of University Professors, July 2005 - Dec. 2011
Board Member and Trustee, The Discovery Museum and Planetarium, Bridgeport, CT, June 2004 - Feb. 2012
Faculty advisor, Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Technology and Ethics working group, 2004 - 2012
Participant in the Yale Law School Information Society Project, 2004 - 2012
Member of the Yale University Whitney Humanities Center “Mind, Brain, Culture, and Consciousness” group, 2004 - 2012
Acoustical Society of America representative to the AAAS Consortium of Affiliates for Security Policy (CASP), 2010 - 2012
Technical Advisory Committee, Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA). Screening of Passengers by Observational Techniques (SPOT) program, July 2010 - Feb. 2012
Member, National Academies Transportation Review Board, ACRP Committee on Evaluating the Impact of Aviation Noise on Learning, Dec. 2009 - Feb. 2012
Executive Committee member-at-large, The Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2011
Elected member of Sigma Xi, Dec. 2008 - present
Fellow of Trumbull College at Yale University, Sep. 2007 - present
Ethics Committee, Linguistic Society of America, Oct. 2006 - Aug. 2010
Scientific Advisory Committee, House Ear Institute, June 2006 - June 2007
Member of the Philosophical Society of Washington (now PSW Science), Feb. 2007 - present
Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Jan. 2006 - present
Nominations Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Section Z, Nov. 2005 - Oct. 2008
Chairman of the Board, The Discovery Museum and Planetarium, Bridgeport, CT, June 2005 - Sep. 2008
Member of the Advisory Board the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JERHRE), 2005 – 2010
Chief Executive Officer, Haskins Laboratories, 2004 - 2015
Participant in the Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, 2003 - present
NSF ex officio member, Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Subjects Protections, (SACHRP), July 2003 - Sep. 2003. Advisory to the Secretary of HHS.
Fellow, American Psychological Society (now Association for Psychological Science), June 2003 - present
Chair of the inter-agency National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Human Subjects Research Subcommittee (HSRS), under the supervision of OSTP, Jan. 2003 - Sep. 2003
Co-chair of the NSF Human and Social Dynamics priority area Implementation Group (HSDIG), Sep. 2002 - May 2003
Member of the NIH-funded Social and Behavioral Sciences Working Group on Human Subjects Protections, 2002 - 2005
Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), National Science Foundation, 2000 - 2003
Member of the NSTC SBE Working Group on Terrorism, under the supervision of OSTP, 2002 - 2003
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Sep. 2002 - present
Member of the NSF Science and Technology Centers (STC) Coordinating Committee, 2001 - 2003
Member of the NSTC Human Subjects Research Subcommittee (HSRS), under the supervision of OSTP, 2000 - 2003
Chair of the NSTC Human Subjects Research Subcommittee, Behavioral and Social Science Working Group (HSRS-BSWG), 2000 - Jan. 2003.
NSF ex officio member, National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (NHRPAC), 2000 - Sep. 2002
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, June 1999 - present
Organizing Committee, AVSP’99 (Auditory-Visual Speech Processing), 1999
Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, 1998 - 2015
Acting Editor, special issue of Speech Communication, 1998
Professor Adjunct, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology, 1994 - present
Core leader, Haskins Labs, NIH / NICHD P-01, “The Nature and Acquisition of the Speech Code and Reading,” 1992 - 2012
Vice President, Haskins Laboratories, 1992-2015
Research Affiliate, Department of Psychology, Yale University, 1991- present
Research Fellow, ATR International, Kyoto, Japan, 1990 - 2000
Research Staff, Haskins Laboratories, 1977 - 2015
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Connecticut, 1975 - 1976
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