Philip Rubin

Philip E. Rubin (born May 22, 1949, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American cognitive scientist and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science, neuroscience, and science and technology ethics at a national level. His research since the 1970s has focused on speech synthesis and speech production, including articulatory synthesis, computational modeling of speech physiology and acoustics, and sinewave synthesis used to study the biological bases of speech and language. He directed the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences from 2000 to 2003 and led the White House's neuroscience initiative, including the BRAIN Initiative, at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2012 to 2015.