Other Awards and Honors
2007 Impact on Scientific Community
PNNL Scientist Selected for National Engineering Symposium
Michelle L. Gregory has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2007 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Sept. 24-26 at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash. The annual event brings together 100 of the nation's outstanding young engineers from industry, academia and government to collaborate in examining research challenges in various engineering fields and industry sectors.
Gregory is a leader in the field of computational linguistics. She uses computer science, mathematics and psychology to help bridge the gap between human and computer language processing, resulting in more natural-sounding speech synthesis and better speech recognition performance, as well as computational methods to model aspects of discourse. Gregory is widely published, has 2 patents and 4 pending, and also holds an adjunct teaching position at WSU-Tri-Cities. (announced 6/1/2007)