Jackson Liscombe

Jackson Liscombe is an accomplished Senior Research Scientist at Modality.AI since January 2018, specializing in speech and language corpora for clinical AI systems and the development of spoken language understanding algorithms. Prior experience includes serving as a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Bard College at Simon's Rock from September 2014 to February 2021, where courses ranged from Algorithmic Thinking to Computational Modelling for the Natural Sciences. Jackson also held positions such as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Deputy Title IX Coordinator at the same institution, overseeing academic programs and Title IX compliance, respectively. Previously, as Principal Research Engineer at Nuance Communications and Principal Speech Engineer at SpeechCycle, Inc., Jackson led initiatives in multimodal dialog systems and automated products. Academic credentials include a PhD in Natural Language Processing from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics from UC Santa Barbara.