James Glass

James Glass is a Senior Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and heads the Spoken Language Systems Group within MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His research spans automatic speech recognition, multimodal learning, and spoken language understanding, with applications in healthcare and video analysis.

• Education: SM and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT

His work focuses on paralinguistic speech analysis, health markers in speech, and the intersection of speech and natural language processing. Recent trends emphasize audio-visual alignment, recursive reasoning, and AI applications in cognitive disorder diagnosis.

Scientific awards include IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. His group explores unsupervised learning, speaker verification, and social text analysis.

James leads the Spoken Language Systems Group at CSAIL, collaborating with institutions like IBM and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His research integrates vision-language models, neural audio codecs, and self-supervised frameworks.