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I am Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I direct MIT's Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory. Before coming to MIT, I was faculty in the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego.

I am serving as Chair of the MIT Faculty from 2025–2027.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences	Pronouns:	he/him/his
Building 46, Room 3033	Phone:	(617) 253-5763
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Fax:	(617) 253-9216
77 Massachusetts Avenue	Email:	rplevy@mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA	Administrative Assistant:	Margarita O'Leary (moleary@mit.edu)

My research focuses on theoretical and applied questions in the processing and acquisition of natural language. Linguistic communication involves the resolution of uncertainty over a potentially unbounded set of possible signals and meanings. How can a fixed set of knowledge and resources be deployed to manage this uncertainty? And how is this knowledge acquired? To address these questions I combine computational modeling, psycholinguistic experimentation, and analysis of large naturalistic language datasets. This work furthers our understanding of the cognitive underpinning of language processing and acquisition, and helps us design models and algorithms that will allow machines to process human language.

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Last modified: Wed 02 Jul 09:16:45 UTC 2025 by Roger Levy. Photo credit © 2016 Gabriel Aldaz.