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Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Office: 514 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4258
Email: maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Sociolinguistics
Language variation and change
Language contact
Language shift

Allen, James F.

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Office: 3011 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7263
Email: james@cs.rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Natural language understanding
Discourse
Knowledge representation
Common-sense reasoning
Planning

Asudeh, Ash

Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director of Center for Language Sciences; Director of Graduate Studies
Office: 506 Lattimore
Phone: (585) 275-5907
Email: ash.asudeh@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Logic, Language, and Computation
Cognitive Science

Audi, Paul

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: 522 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: paul.audi@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language

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Bai, Zhen

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3007 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7758
Email: zbai@cs.rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction
Augmented Reality
Tangible User Interfaces
Embodied Conversational Agent
Technology-Enhanced Learning
Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
Assistive Technology

Bennetto, Loisa

Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
Office: 492 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8712
Email: loisa.bennetto@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Neurocognitive bases of autism
The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

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Carlson, Greg

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Phone: (585) 275-5907
Email: gregory.carlson@rochester.edu

Research Interests

Semantic Theory
Psycholinguistics
Discourse

Carney, Laurel

Professor Biomedical Engineering, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Office: 5-8513 MC
Phone: (585) 276-3948
Email: laurel.carney@rochester.edu

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Gegg-Harrison, Whitney, PhD

Associate Professor
Office: G121-H Rush Rhees Library
Phone: (585) 275-5363
Email: whitney.gegg-harrison@rochester.edu

Gildea, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3019 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7852
Email: gildea@cs.rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Machine translation
Semantic parsing
Algorithms for natural language processing

Grimm, Nadine

Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Office: 509 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 273-2366
Email: nadine.grimm@rochester.edu

Research Interests

Grammatical tone
Language documentation and description
Typology
African languages, particularly Bantu

Grimm, Scott

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics; Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
Office: 512 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-5136
Email: scott.grimm@rochester.edu

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H

Hoque, Ehsan

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3013 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-1351
Email: mehoque@cs.rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Human Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Interactive machine learning
Health and wellbeing
Future of skills

Howard, Thomas M.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: 732 Computer Studies Building
Phone: (585) 275-3755
Email: thoward@ece.rochester.edu

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Motion Planning
Human-Robot Interaction

J

Jaeger, T. Florian

#Behavioral Methods, #Computational Modeling, #Development and Learning, #Language

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
Office: 320 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 276-3611
Email: Fjaeger@ur.rochester.edu

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Kipper, Jens

Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Office: 519 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: jens.kipper@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language

Kurumada, Chigusa

#Behavioral Methods, #Neuropsychological Populations, #Development and Learning, #Language

Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Office: 304 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-0760
Email: ckuruma2@ur.rochester.edu

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Marvin, Elizabeth West

Professor Music Theory and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Office: 109 ESM
Phone: (585) 274-1076
Email: bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu

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McDonough, Joyce M.

Richard L. Turner Professor; Professor of Linguistics
Office: 505 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2895
Email: joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu

Research Interests

Phonetics, phonology and morphology and their interfaces
Laboratory phonology
Dene (Athabaskan) linguistics
Neural coding of vowels (w Laurel Carney)

Moroney, Mary

Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics
Office: 511 Lattimore Hall
Email: mary.moroney@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Semantics
Syntax
Definiteness
Quantification
Southeast Asian Languages

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Pietraszko, Asia

Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office: 510 Lattimore Hall
Email: asia.pietraszko@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Syntax and Morphology
Clausal Architecture
Processes underlying Structure Building
Bantu Morphosyntax

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Raizada, Rajeev

#Brain Imaging, #Computational Modeling, #Concepts and Categories, #Development and Learning, #Language

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Email: Rraizada@ur.rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Multivoxel pattern analysis of fMRI
Language, semantics
Structure of neural representations
Computational modeling

Runner, Jeffrey T.

Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering; Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Office: 317L Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 273-5000
Email: jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu

Research Interests

Experimental Syntax
Syntactic/Linguistic Theory
Binding Theory
Syntax Processing
Phrase Structure
Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Schubert, Lenhart K.

Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3003 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8845
Email: schubert@cs.rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Language and dialogue
Knowledge representation and inference
Schema learning and schema-based behavior
Self-motivated agents

Soysal, Zeynep

Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Office: 524 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: zeynep.soysal@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mathematics

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Tanenhaus, Michael K.

Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics
Email: mktanenhaus@gmail.com

Research Interests

psycholinguistics
language and reading comprehension

Temperley, David

Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
Office: ET 203 Eastman
Phone: (585) 274-1557
Email: dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Music cognition
Music-language connections
Corpus linguistics

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White, Aaron

Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director of FACTS.lab
Office: 511A Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8053
Email: aaron.white@rochester.edu

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Research Interests

Computational psycholinguistics
Syntactic and semantic theory
First language acquisition

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Yang, Chung-Lin Martin

Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Office: 322 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-1812
Email: chung-lin.yang@rochester.edu

Research Interests

Psycho- and neurolinguistics
speech perception/production
word recognition (both visual and spoken)
word learning
evolution of human cognition
second language acquisition