Science and Policy Leadership and Community Service Roles
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 - present
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
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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