L. R. Rabiner

Timeline

1. 1967

   Joining Bell Labs

   Completing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at MIT in June 1967, he joins Bell Laboratories as a permanent member of the research staff.

2. 1980

   The Piore Award

   In 1980 he and Ronald W. Schafer receive the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award.

3. 1989

   A tutorial on hidden Markov models

   A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications in speech recognition appears in Proceedings of the IEEE in 1989. He helps create the statistical method of representing speech known as hidden Markov modeling.

4. 1993

   Fundamentals of Speech Recognition

   Prentice-Hall publishes Fundamentals of Speech Recognition in 1993, co-written with B. H. Juang.

5. 1996–1998

   Speech systems at AT&T Labs

   In 1996 he joins the newly created AT&T Labs as director of the Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab. AT&T deploys his speech recognition systems to automate a range of operator services, and in 1998 he becomes vice president of research.

6. 1999

   The Kilby Signal Processing Medal

   The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal and the IEEE Millennium Medal go to him in 1999.

7. 2002

   Moving to Rutgers

   He retires from AT&T in March 2002 and joins Rutgers University as a professor of electrical and computer engineering, with a joint appointment at UC Santa Barbara.

8. As of October 2026

   Emeritus at Santa Barbara

   He is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara.