Professor Sarah Ita Levitan was awarded the Gross-Wasser Award, a CUNY award recognizing assistant professors for outstanding research.
The award is named after two founding members of the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser. Each awardee presents their research in a talk as part of the Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser lecture series. Levitan also holds an appointment at the CUNY Graduate School.
The awards underscore Hunter’s commitment to its role as an anchor institution providing opportunities for high-impact research benefiting the broader community.
Levitan joined Hunter in 2020. She earned a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University. Her research is in natural-language processing, which aims to teach computers to understand and generate language. Her focus is on building computational models to detect information about speakers and authors from spoken and written language. She is working on building models to understand and model trustworthiness in spoken language, written language, and combinations of images and speech — in both human and machine-generated language.
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