People
Philip Rubin, Ph.D.
Chair of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer emeritus
300 George Street, Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511-6624
Philip Rubin is the Chair of the Board of Haskins Laboratories. Rubin is also the President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), a member of the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees, an adjunct professor in the Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology, at Yale School of Medicine, a Research Affiliate in Psychology at Yale University, a Fellow at Yale’s Trumbull College, and Chief Executive Officer emeritus and a former Senior Scientist at Haskins. From 2012 -2015, Rubin was Principal Assistant Director for Science at OSTP, led the White House neuroscience initiative, which included the BRAIN Initiative, and was co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Science. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation and chaired the National Academies’ Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS). His research spans a number of disciplines, combining computational, engineering, linguistic, physiological, and psychological approaches to study embodied cognition, most particularly the biological bases of speech and language. He is particularly known for his work on articulatory speech synthesis, sinewave synthesis, signal processing, research ethics, and science administration and policy.
Education
Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology), University of Connecticut, 1975
M.A. (Experimental Psychology), University of Connecticut, 1973
B.A. (Psychology and Linguistics), Brandeis University, 1971
Awards and Honors
2020 iGIANT (impact of Gender/Sex on Innovation and Novel Technologies) Pioneer Award, Jan. 6, 2020
Elected as the President-Elect of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), Nov. 4, 2019
Elected as Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, Feb. 2017.
Granted lifetime membership in Nu Rho Psi, The National Honor Society in Neuroscience, September 29, 2016, “In recognition of outstanding achievement in the areas of neuroscience scholarship and research …”
Elected as Fellow of the Psychonomic Society, 2015.
Added to the FABBS (Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences) “In Honor Of ...” gallery of scientists, “recognizing eminent, senior scientists who have made important and lasting contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior”, 2015
Consortium of Social Science Associations Distinguished Service Award, March 9, 2015.
The OSTP Award for Excellence. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, July 2014.
Elected as Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 2014.
Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Nov. 2013.
Elected as Senior Member of the IEEE, Aug. 2012.
Received the American Psychological Association’s “Meritorious Research Service Commendation” “In recognition of your outstanding contributions to psychological science through your service as a leader in research management and policy development at the national level” on November 13, 2010.
Elected to membership in Sigma Xi, Dec. 2008.
Elected as a Fellow of Trumbull College at Yale University, Sep. 2007.
Elected to membership in the Philosophical Society of Washington (now PSW Science), Feb. 2007.
Elected to Fellow status in the American Psychological Association, Jan. 2006 “… in recognition of outstanding and unusual contributions to the science and profession of psychology.”
Award for “Commendable Performance ... for his superior leadership of all federal government departments and agencies involved in the protection of human subjects,” Sep. 2003, from the Human Subjects Research Subcommittee, Committee on Science, National Science and Technology Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Elected to Fellow status in the American Psychological Society (now Association for Psychological Science), June 2003, for “… sustained outstanding achievements in psychological science.”
Elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow in Section Z, Linguistics and Language Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sep. 2002, for “ … major contributions to the understanding of human speech processing and the technology of speech analysis.”
Elected as a Fellow in the Acoustical Society of America, June 1999.
Representative publications
Rubin, P. (2022). Arthur Abramson. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, April 20, 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.923
Rubin, P. (2021). Foreword. In Carol A. Fowler and Donald Shankweiler, Language and Life: Haskins Laboratories’ first half century. Haskins Press: 2021.
Lubell, Michael S. and Rubin, Philip. (2021). Biden's Big Science Challenge: Increasing Public Trust. Scientific American, March 15, 2021.
Rubin, Philip. (2019). In Memoriam: John T. Cacioppo (1951 – 2018). American Psychologist, Vol. 74, No. 6, 745. [PDF]
Rubin, Philip. (2019). Modernizing the Human Subjects Regulations. The Regulatory Review, University of Pennsylvania, May 2, 2019.
Rubin, Philip and Munhall, Kevin (2018). Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (1952-2017). Phonetica, Vol. 75 (3), 187-190. [PDF]
Remez, Robert E. and Rubin, Philip E. (2016). Perceptual Organization and Lawful Specification. Ecological Psychology, Vol. 28, No. 3, 160-165.
Rubin, P. (2012). Cognitive Science. In William Sims Bainbridge (ed.). Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook. SAGE Publications: 2012.
Rubin, P. (2011). “Parsing, Human,” encyclopedia entry for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, edited by Patrick Colm Hogan, 587. Cambridge University Press.
Rubin, P. (2011). “Sinewave Synthesis,” encyclopedia entry for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, edited by Patrick Colm Hogan, 777-778. Cambridge University Press.
Goldstein, L. and Rubin, P. (2007). Speech: Dances of the Vocal Tract. Odyssey Magazine, Jan. 2007, 14-15. [PDF]
Hogden, J., Rubin, P., McDermott, E., Katagiri, S., & Goldstein, L. (2007). Inverting mappings from smooth paths through Rn to paths through Rm: A technique applied to recovering articulation from acoustics. Speech Communication, May 2007, Volume 49, Issue 5, 361-383. [PDF]
Yehia, H.; Rubin, P.; Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (1998). Quantitative association of vocal-tract and facial behavior. Speech Communication. 26 (1–2): 23–24. doi:10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00048-X
Rubin, P. & Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (1998). Measuring and modeling speech production in humans. In S. L. Hopp & C. S. Evans (Eds.), Animal Acoustic Communication: Recent Technical Advances. Springer-Verlag, New York, 251-290. [PDF]
Rubin, P., Saltzman, E., Goldstein, L., McGowan, R, Tiede, M. & Browman, C. (1996). CASY and extensions to the task-dynamic model. Proceedings of the 4th Speech Production Seminar, Grenoble, France, 125-128.
Hogden, J., Rubin, P., & Saltzman, E. (1996). An unsupervised method for learning to track tongue position from an acoustic signal. Bulletin de la communication parlee, Vol. 3 pp. 101-116. [PDF]
Rubin, Philip E. (1995). HADES: A Case Study of the Development of a Signal System. In R. Bennett, S. L. Greenspan & A. Syrdal (Eds.), Behavioral Aspects of Speech Technology: Theory and Applications. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 501-520. [PDF]
Rubin, P., Baer, T., & Mermelstein, P. (1981). An articulatory synthesizer for perceptual research. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 321-328. [PDF]
Remez, R. E., Rubin, P. E., Pisoni, D. B., & Carrell, T. D. (1981). Speech perception without traditional speech cues. Science, 212, 947-950. [PDF]
Fowler, C. A., Rubin, P. E., Remez, R. E., & Turvey, M. T. (1980). Implications for speech production of a general theory of action. In B. Butterworth (Ed.), Language Production, Vol. I: Speech and Talk (pp. 373-420). New York: Academic Press. [PDF]
Rubin, P., Turvey, M. & Van Gelder, P. (1976). Initial phonemes are detected faster in spoken words than in spoken nonwords. Perception and Psychophysics, 19, 394-398. [PDF]