Jeffrey Heinz Professor Department of Linguistics Institute for Advanced Computational Science Stony Brook University jeffrey.heinz@stonybrook.edu

Recent-ish Activities

• I helped organize a session on learnability and aquisition of morpho-phonology at the 101th meeting of the LSA with Jane Chandlee and Adam Jardine.
• I helped organize a session on Formal Language Theory in Morphology and Phonology at the 100th meeting of the LSA with Scott Nelson and Jon Rawski.
• I serve on the steering committee of ICGI and on the PC ICGI 2023.
• I taught a course at the LSA Summer Institute at UC Davis on Computational Phonology. Here is a short interview they did with me which explains a little about myself.
• I guest edited (with Bill Idsardi) a special issue of Phonology on computational phonology. Read it!

Research Interests

• Phonology
• Linguistic typology
• Grammatical inference
• Formal language theory and learnability
• Protein folding
• Robotic planning and control
• Intelligence, both artificial and naturally occuring

Teaching

• Fall 2024: LIN 655 Computational Seminar: Logical Structure of Phonology
• Spring 2023: LIN 629 Phonology 2
• Spring 2023: LIN 637 Computational Linguistics 2
• Summer 2019: Computational Phonology
• I co-taught a course on computational phonology at the 2015 LSA Summer Institute with Jason Riggle. Get the posters! (large, 67MB) (small, 37MB)
• I co-taught a course at ESSLLI 2014 with Jim Rogers: MTP.

Bio

Jeffrey Heinz is a Professor at Stony Brook University with a joint appointment in the Department of Linguistics and the Institute of Advanced Computational Science. He conducts research in several related areas including theoretical, computational and mathematical linguistics, grammatical inference, computational learning theory, theoretical computer science, robotic planning and control, and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on characterizations of subclasses of regular languages and transductions, algorithms for learning those subclasses, and what those subclasses mean for patterns in language and the "real" world. His research has been published in the Journal of Language Modelling, Linguistic Inquiry, Theoretical Computer Science, the Transactions of the ACL, and Science. He has co-authored a book on grammatical inference for computational linguists, co-edited three books, and co-guest-edited special issues of the journals Machine Learning and Phonology.

He obtained his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2007 and spent ten years as a professor at the University of Delaware before coming to Stony Brook in 2017. The Linguistic Society of America recognized Heinz with its 2017 Early Career Award for his "contributions leading to a new computational science of inference and learning as applied to language."