Philip E. Rubin | |
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| President, Rothschild Wilder | |
| Assumed office January 2024 | |
| President, Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) | |
| In office January 2022 – January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Roxane Cohen Silver |
| Principal Assistant Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy | |
| In office June 2012 – 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Director | John Holdren |
| Preceded by | Carl Wieman (Associate Director) |
| Succeeded by | Jo Handelsman (Associate Director) |
| CEO, Haskins Laboratories | |
| In office 2004–2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 22, 1949 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education | Brandeis University (BA) University of Connecticut (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Articulatory synthesis BRAIN Initiative Cognitive science Computational modelling Dynamical Systems Embodied cognition Ethics of technology Human subjects and the Common Rule Linguistics Public policy Signal processing Sinewave synthesis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology, Linguistics |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Turvey, Alvin Liberman, Philip Lieberman, and Ignatius Mattingly |
Philip E. Rubin (born May 22, 1949) is an American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science, neuroscience, and ethical issues related to science, technology, and medicine, at a national level. His research career is noted for his theoretical contributions and pioneering technological developments, starting in the 1970s, related to speech synthesis and speech production, including articulatory synthesis (computational modeling of the physiology and acoustics of speech production) and sinewave synthesis, and their use in studying complex temporal events, particularly understanding the biological bases of speech and language.
Rubin is the President and a Trustee of Rothschild Wilder, a private foundation that supports social justice and ethics, science and innovation, the arts and humanities, and the preservation of popular culture artifacts.[1] He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is Chief Executive Officer emeritus and was for many years a senior scientist.[2] In addition, he is a Professor Adjunct in the Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology at the Yale University School of Medicine, a Research Affiliate in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, a Fellow at Yale's Trumbull College,[3] and a Trustee of the University of Connecticut.[4] He is the current Past President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), a role in which he will serve through 2025.[5]
From 2012 through Feb. 2015 he was the Principal Assistant Director for Science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States,[6] and led the White House's neuroscience initiative,[7] which included the BRAIN Initiative. He also served as the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at OSTP.[8] For many years he has been involved with issues of science advocacy, education, funding, and policy.
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- ^ Peart, Karen N. (2012-03-06). "YaleNews | Yale scientist tapped to serve key roles at the White House and NSF". News.yale.edu. Retrieved 2012-05-12.