Ted Briscoe has been a member of staff at the Computer Laboratory since 1989, a Reader since 2000, and a Professor of Computational Linguistics since 2004. His broad research interests are computational and theoretical linguistics and automated speech and language processing. He directed and was heavily involved in the teaching of the MPhil in Computer Speech, Text, and Internet Technology taught jointly with the Engineering Department. He currently teaches similar modules as part of the department's MPhil in Advanced Computer Science.
From 1990 until 1996 he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow undertaking research at Macquarie University in Sydney, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Xerox European Research Centre in Grenoble, as well as at the Computer Laboratory.