Richard Aslin is a Senior Research Scientist at the Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Dr. Aslin has published widely in numerous sub-areas of infant development, including perceptual and motor systems, speech and language acquisition, and statistical learning. In the past decade, Dr. Aslin has focused on extending his research from behavioral methods to neuroimaging measures using fMRI, EEG, and fNIRS. Dr. Aslin is the recipient of several major awards and honors, including the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (2014), the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences (2020), member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), and member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013). In 2014, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from his Ph.D. alma mater, the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Aslin is retiring in August 2024, after a distinguished career that spanned 4 years as a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Child Development at Minnesota, 9 years on the faculty at Indiana University, 33 years on the faculty at the University of Rochester, and 7 years on the faculty at Yale and Haskins Labs. During those 53 years, Dr. Aslin mentored 32 PhD students and 28 postdocs, employed 16 lab managers, published with over 50 non-student colleagues, and held major administrative positions. His excellence in mentoring and leadership have been recognized by numerous awards from organizations including APA, APS, and the Cognitive Science Society.