Dr. Lawrence Rabiner received the BS, and MS degrees simultaneously in June 1964, and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in June 1967, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From 1962 through 1964, he participated in the cooperative program in Electrical Engineering at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Whippany and Murray Hill, New Jersey.  During this period Dr. Rabiner worked on digital circuitry, military communications problems, and problems in binaural hearing.  Dr. Rabiner joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1967 as a Member of the Technical Staff.  He was promoted to Supervisor in 1972, Department Head in 1985, Director in 1990, and Functional Vice President in 1995.  He joined the newly created AT&T Labs in 1996 as Director of the Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab, and was promoted to Vice President of Research in 1998 where he managed a broad research program in communications, computing, and information sciences technologies.

 Dr. Rabiner retired from AT&T at the end of March 2002 and is now a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, and the Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) at Rutgers.  He also has a joint appointment as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Dr. Rabiner’s research has focused on the areas of Digital Signal Processing (in general) and Digital Speech Processing (in particular).  He has done work in the areas of designing digital filters and spectrum analyzers, and in the areas of speech synthesis and speech recognition, where he led an AT&T team that implemented one of the world’s first commercial voice services for automation of ‘operator-assisted’ calls.