Lenhart Schubert earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and was elected fellow of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence with his research focusing on simulating the human ability in everyday encounters.
Schubert received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1970. He was elected fellow of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1993 for "fundamental contributions in NLP, esp. Commonsense reasoning is one of the branches of artificial intelligence (AI) that is concerned with simulating the human ability to make presumptions about the type and essence of ordinary situations they encounter every day. Schubert is a prominent researcher in the field of common sense reasoning. 
