Levinson (September 27, 1944, New York City-) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), leader of the Language Acquisition and Robotics Lab at UIUC, and a full-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC.
He works on speech synthesis, acquisition and recognition and the development of anthropomorphic robots.