Dr. Richard Lippmann has organized and helped lead short-term mission trips to the Dominican Republic and recently helped organize the 2013 ISI International Student Thanksgiving Conference. He has taught Sunday school, been a mentor for confirmation classes, been the chair and a member of the Missions Committee, and is leading a Bible Study and on the Board of the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland. He is a Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and has worked on Signal Processing for the Hearing Impaired, Speech Recognition, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, and Computer Security. He recently received the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence award and has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers, reports, or books. He received the first IEEE Signal Processing Magazine award for the article "An Introduction to Computing with Neural Nets," has supervised more than twenty SM and PhD students, and was a founding board member of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference. Dr. Lippmann holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has four adult children and five grandchildren.
