Dr. Cohen has been a pioneer in the field of human language technologies for the past four decades. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the recipient of the 2017 Sustained Accomplishment Award from the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Cohen has led award-winning teams, at SRI International, the Oregon Graduate Institute, Adapx, Inc., and most recently as Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence at VoiceBox Technologies. He is well-known for having conceived and led the Open Agent Architecture project at SRI International, which became the foundation of SRI International’s efforts in developing SIRI™. Dr. Cohen has published over 150 technical papers in leading scientific venues, received more than 18,000 citations, and holds 7 patents.