Kenneth N. Stevens

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Kenneth N. Stevens is Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT. Professor Stevens heads the Speech Communication Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and is one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. He earned his ScD from MIT in 1952, under the direction of Leo Beranek, and was awarded the National Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton in 1999.