1. Philip E Rubin was born on May 22,1949 and 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.
Philip Rubin is 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.
Philip Rubin is the current Past President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a role in which he will serve through 2025.
Philip Rubin served as the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at OSTP.
Philip Rubin received his BA in psychology and linguistics in 1971 from Brandeis University and subsequently attended the University of Connecticut where he received his PhD in experimental psychology in 1975 under the tutelage of Michael Turvey, Ignatius Mattingly, Philip Lieberman, and Alvin Liberman.
Philip Rubin is best known for his work on articulatory synthesis, speech perception, sinewave synthesis, signal processing, perceptual organization, and theoretical approaches and modeling of complex temporal events.
The sinewave synthesis system designed by Philip Rubin, known as SWS, is based on a technique for synthesizing speech by replacing the formants with pure tone whistles, and was designed to explore the spatiotemporal aspects of speech signals.
Philip Rubin is the designer of the HADES signal processing system and the SPIEL programming language, a predecessor of MATLAB.
Philip Rubin was the co-creator, with Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, of the Talking Heads website, which is no longer active.
Philip Rubin's approach stresses the constraints and structure stemming from the realities of embodied systems, again across both time and physical space.
Philip Rubin expanded the modeling of speech production to incorporate an event based approach to control movement over time and articulatory space of the vocal tract, by building on the conceptual approach developed by Paul Mermelstein and colleagues at Bell Laboratories.
Goldstein and Philip Rubin have described the "dances of the vocal tract" that underlie the production of continuous speech.
Philip Rubin expanded his approach to understanding the importance of spatiotemporal coordination in his collaborations on audiovisual speech with Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Hani Yehia, and other colleagues, focusing on multimodality by exploring the simultaneous combination of speech, facial information, and gesture, leading to innovations in analysis, synthesis, and simulation.
From 2000 to 2003 Philip Rubin was the Director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, where he helped launch the Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Origins, Documenting Endangered Languages, and other programs, was part of the NBIC convergence activities, and was the first chair of the Human and Social Dynamics priority area.
Philip Rubin returned to the NSF during the second term of the Obama Administration to serve as a senior advisor in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
Philip Rubin has been in several leadership roles related to science policy and advocacy.
Philip Rubin is the former Chairman of the Board of the Discovery Museum and Planetarium in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he worked with museum staff, trustees, city and state representatives, and others to establish the Discovery Magnet School on museum grounds, the first pre-K to 8 interdistrict public magnet school in the region with a science theme.
Philip Rubin is currently the President and chair of the Board of Directors of FABBS.
Philip Rubin was the co-chair of the inter-agency National Science and Technology Council Committee on Science Human Subjects Research Subcommittee under the auspices of the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy and was formerly the co-chair of the HSRS Behavioral Research Working Group.
Philip Rubin has been a long-time member of the Yale University Technology and Ethics working group and Yale's Science, Technology, and Utopian Visions and Mind, Brain, Culture and Consciousness working groups, both hosted by the Whitney Humanities Center.
Philip Rubin was a member of the Steering Committee of MBCC.
Philip Rubin has expressed concerns about the ethical and scientific oversight of the use of certain tools and techniques by the intelligence, law enforcement, military, and national security communities, considering some of them to be boondoggles.
In May 2016 Philip Rubin was a signatory to an Open Letter to the World Health Organization calling on them to move or postpone the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro over the 2016 epidemic of Zika fever.
Philip Rubin appeared on air on ESPN with Hannah Storm to discuss risk assessment and Zika.
In February 2012 Philip Rubin took a position as the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Philip Rubin served as a senior advisor at the National Science Foundation in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate.
Philip Rubin co-chaired the interagency Common Rule Modernization Working Group.
In February 2015, Philip Rubin retired from OSTP and the NSF.
Philip Rubin was the founder, in 1984, and first president of YMUG and the publisher of The Desktop Journal.
Philip Rubin is the co-founder, with Elliot Saltzman, of the IS Group, an informal, collaborative group founded in the 1980s of scientists and technologists from around the country exploring cutting-edge issues such as dynamical systems, evolution, artificial intelligence, linguistics, robotics, network science, neuroscience, and other topics.
Between 1999 and some time in the early 2000s, Philip Rubin was technical advisor at ZeniMax Media Parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks.
Philip Rubin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships Large-Scale Science Working Group.
Philip Rubin is a member of the American Academy's Commission on Language Learning, created to examine the current state of language education in response to a bipartisan request from members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Philip Rubin is a member of the Beyond Conflict Scientific Advisory Committee.
In May 2015 Philip Rubin served as a judge for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Robots4Us Student Video Contest and was an invited participant in the activities at the DRC Finals in June 2015.
From 2016 through 2019, Philip Rubin served as Director and Treasurer of iGIANT, founded and led by Dr Saralyn Mark.
In Jan 2020 Philip Rubin was named as a Board Member Emeritus of iGIANT.
In 2017 and 2018, Philip Rubin served as a member of the National Academy of Public Administration's NASA Advisory Council: Organizational Assessment panel.
In December, 2017, Governor of Connecticut, Dannel P Malloy, appointed Philip Rubin to serve as a member of the UConn Board of Trustees, the governing body for the University of Connecticut.
In October, 2018, Philip Rubin was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of Haskins Laboratories.
In January, 2021, Philip Rubin became Editor of the Haskins Press, Haskins Laboratories, in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 2021, Philip Rubin was named as a member of the International Selection Committee for the Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
In January, 2022, Philip Rubin took over as President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
In January, 2023, Philip Rubin was named as Chair of the Board of Directors of Haskins Laboratories.
In January, 2024, Philip Rubin became the current Past President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a role in which he will serve through 2025.
In January, 2024, Philip Rubin was named as President of Rothschild Wilder, a private foundation.
Philip Rubin was born on May 22,1949, in Newark, New Jersey.
Philip Rubin spent most of his childhood in Newark and graduated in 1967 from Union High School in Union, New Jersey, where his interest in science, along with classmates such as Marty Kaplan, was nurtured by the inspirational advanced biology teacher Irwin Jaeger.
Philip Rubin is a photographer who, since the 1970s, has concentrated on pictures of wall art, including murals, graffiti, and painted buildings, in the urban centers of the cities that he has visited.