University of Washington advisory boards design and continually review and update programs to meet the evolving demands of specific fields. The following UW faculty, industry experts and community leaders have guided the development of this certificate program:

Jeff Adams, Director, Language Modeling R & D, Nuance Inc.

Srinivas Bangalore, Anuvaad Project, AT&T Research

Erik Bansleben, Assistant Director, UW Extension

Emily Bender, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington

Mike Calcagno, Development Manager, Natural Language Group, Microsoft Corp.

Allyson Carlyle, Associate Professor, UW Information School

Ciprian Chelba, Research Scientist, Google

Francine Chen, Area Manager, Quantitative Content Analysis Area, Palo Alto Research Center

Mike Cohen, Founder, Nuance

Christina Ferguson, Client Engineering, BeVocal Inc.

Michael Gamon, NLP Group, Microsoft Corp.

Francis Ganong, Manager, Acoustic R&D, ScanSoft Inc.

Wael Hamza, Text-to-Speech Research, IBM Research

Philip Harrison, Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Co.

Julia Herschensohn, Chair, Linguistics, University of Washington

Jim Hoard, President, Relational Logic

Mark Johnson, President, Association of Computational Linguistics, Brown University

Ron Kaplan, Research Fellow, Natural Language Theory and Technology, Palo Alto Research Center

Henry Kautz, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

John McCready, VP Marketing & Product Management, Phonetic Systems

Robert Moore, Senior Researcher, NLP Group, Microsoft Research

Mari Ostendorf, Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington

Mark Ryan, President, Translation.net

Remy Sanouillet, Head of Linguistic Engineering, Edify Corporation

Hadar Shemtov, Director of Research, Natural Language Technologies, Yahoo!, Inc.

Dave Szatmary, Vice Provost, University of Washington Educational Outreach

Michael Tjalve, Speech Scientist, VoiceBox Technologies

Clare Voss, Multilingual Computing Group, Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

Richard Wojcik, Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing Phantom Works, The Boeing Co.