Gerald Penn (computer scientist)

Gerald Penn
Penn at IZ-Colloquium (Berlin, May 2012)
Alma mater	University of Chicago (BS) Carnegie Mellon University (MS, PhD)
Known for	Application of neural network in acoustic model
Awards	E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize (2001) Beckman Fellow (2006)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical linguistics Computational linguistics Natural language processing Speech recognition Parsing
Institutions	University of Toronto
Thesis	The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Frank Pfenning
Website	http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gpenn/

Gerald Penn is an American computer scientist specializing in mathematical linguistics and speech processing. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, a senior member of IEEE and AAAI, and a past chair of Association for Mathematics of Language.