Recent Activities
- I guest edited (with Bill Idsardi) a special issue of Phonology on computational phonology. Read it!
- I serve on the steering committee of ICGI and am helping to organize LearnAut 2018.
- The IACS hosted NECPHON 2017.
Research Interests
- Phonology
- Linguistic typology
- Grammatical inference
- Formal language theory and learnability
- Robotic planning and control
- Intelligence, both artificial and naturally occuring
Teaching
- Spring 2018: Learnability part 2
- Fall 2017: Learnability part 1
- I co-taught a course on computational phonology at the 2015 LSA Summer Institute with Jason Riggle. Get the posters! (large, 67MB) (small, 37MB)
- I co-taught a course at ESSLLI 2014 with Jim Rogers: MTP.
Bio
Jeffrey Heinz is a Professor of Linguistics who conducts research in several related areas including theoretical and mathematical linguistics, theoretical computer science, computational learning theory, robotic planning and control, and artificial intelligence. In additions to dozens of publications in journals and peer-reviewed book chapters and conference proceedings, he has co-authored a book on grammatical inference for computational linguists, edited two books, and guest-edited special issues of the journals Machine Learning and Phonology.
He obtained his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2007 and spent ten years as a professor at the University of Delaware before coming to Stony Brook in 2017. The Linguistic Society of America recognized Heinz with its 2017 Early Career Award for his “contributions leading to a new computational science of inference and learning as applied to language.”