Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) Susan Elise Brennan is a cognitive scientist known for her research on human communication within the multiple lenses of linguistics, psychology, and computer science.
[5] Brennan's master's thesis on computer generation of caricatures, published in 1982,[6] launched the beginning of her accomplished career in academia.
[2] Under advisor Herb Clark, Brennan wrote her doctoral thesis entitled "Seeking and providing evidence for mutual understanding" (1990).
[7] In 2021, Brennan along with four of her colleagues at Stony Brook University were awarded a cumulative $3 million NSF grant to support graduate student research training in data science and artificial intelligence (AI).
[11] She explored the linguistic devices used by speakers to draw attention to "entities" of their conversation by controlling audio-visual stimuli in and out of focus.