Working out of Nuance’s R&D-focused office in Sunnyvale, California, Ron Kaplan oversees Nuance’s natural language and artificial intelligence laboratory as Senior Director, R&D. For over three decades, Ron has been held in high esteem among colleagues for his research and expertise in the areas of linguistics and natural language understanding.
Ron earned his B.A. in mathematics and language behavior from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in social psychology and psycholinguistics from Harvard University. For nearly 25 years, Ron has served as a consulting professor of linguistics for Stanford University.
Prior to joining Nuance, Ron led natural language research at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for over 25 years, and held research and science positions at other prominent companies, including Microsoft Corporation and Powerset, Inc. Ron is a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen.
