Summary
Eric Fosler-Lussier is a professor of computer science and engineering and the Assistant Dean for Faculty Lifecycle in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, combining academic leadership with deep technical expertise in speech and language processing. He co-leads the NSF ICICLE AI Institute, runs a productive research lab with PhD alumni across academia and industry, and has overseen rapid departmental growth—doubling research funding and expanding faculty by 25% since 2020. In administrative roles he has shaped promotion and tenure, faculty governance, and large-scale academic operations for one of the campus’s largest teaching footprints. Trained at UC Berkeley (PhD) and UPenn (BA/BAS), he brings a rare blend of hands-on research, cross-college program development (including X+CS), and practical policy navigation amid changing state and federal rules. Notably, his work spans robust speech recognition, dialogue understanding, and clinical text processing, and his mentees now hold roles at organizations like Google, Amazon, and major universities.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
BA, Linguistics, BA, Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania