Editor’s biography

Amy Neustein, Ph.D., is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Speech Technology (Springer), a member of De Gruyter’s STM Editorial Advisory Board, and Editor of their new series, Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Health Care. Dr. Neustein is also Series Editor of SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology: Studies in Speech Signal Processing, Natural Language Understanding, and Machine Learning. She has published over 40 scholarly articles, is a frequent invited speaker at natural language and speech technology conferences, and has given grand round lectures and seminars at over 20 leading medical institutions. She is editor of the volume, Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics. Dr. Neustein is co-editor of numerous books including Forensic Speaker Recognition; Where Humans Meet Machines; and Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions. She has been a member of the visiting faculty at the National Judicial College since 1985, and a member of MIR (Machine-Intelligence Research) Labs since 2010. She is the recipient of several distinguished awards: pro Humanitate Literary Award; Information Technology: New Generations (Medical Informatics) Award; and the Los Angeles County Supervisor Humanitarian Award. Dr. Neustein is Founder and CEO of Linguistic Technology Systems, located in Fort Lee, New Jersey.