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Associate Professor of Linguistics; Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
Office: 514 Lattimore Hall
Email: maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu
Office: 514 Lattimore Hall
Email: maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Language variation and change
- Language contact
- Language shift
Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza
Research Interests
- Language documentation and description
- Computational linguistics
- Mesoamerican languages
Adeleke, Lateef
PhD student in Linguistics
Research Interests
- Language Documentation & Description
- Natural Language Processing
- African Languages
Research Interests
- Natural language understanding
- Discourse
- Knowledge representation
- Common-sense reasoning
- Planning
Professor of Linguistics; Director of Center for Language Sciences
Office: 506 Lattimore
Email: ash.asudeh@rochester.edu
Office: 506 Lattimore
Email: ash.asudeh@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Logic, Language, and Computation
- Cognitive Science
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: 522 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: paul.audi@rochester.edu
Office: 522 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: paul.audi@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3007 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7758
Email: zbai@cs.rochester.edu
Office: 3007 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7758
Email: zbai@cs.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Augmented Reality
- Tangible User Interfaces
- Embodied Conversational Agent
- Technology-Enhanced Learning
- Computer-Supported Collaborative Work
- Assistive Technology
Basu, Sreyoshi
Research Interests
- Phonetics
- Syntax
- Multilingualism
- Sociolinguistics
Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience
Office: 492 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8712
Email: loisa.bennetto@rochester.edu
Office: 492 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8712
Email: loisa.bennetto@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Neurocognitive bases of autism
- The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties
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Cao, Angela
PhD student in Linguistics
Research Interests
- Semantics
- Causality
- Conceptual Reasoning
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
Office: 5-8513 MC
Phone: (585) 276-3948
Email: laurel.carney@rochester.edu
Charest, Jessica
Research Interests
- Language documentation and revitalization
Chaudhari, Akash
Research Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Information Extraction
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Everson, Becky
Research Interests
- Language Documentation
- Archiving
- Tone
- Syntax
G
Gantt, William
Associate Professor
Office: G121-H Rush Rhees Library
Phone: (585) 275-5363
Email: whitney.gegg-harrison@rochester.edu
Office: G121-H Rush Rhees Library
Phone: (585) 275-5363
Email: whitney.gegg-harrison@rochester.edu
Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3019 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7852
Email: gildea@cs.rochester.edu
Office: 3019 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7852
Email: gildea@cs.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Machine translation
- Semantic parsing
- Algorithms for natural language processing
Assistant Professor of Linguistics; Director of Language Documentation and Description Program; Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab; On leave for the 23-24 academic year
Office: 509 Lattimore Hall
Email: nadine.grimm@rochester.edu
Office: 509 Lattimore Hall
Email: nadine.grimm@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Grammatical tone
- Language documentation and description
- Typology
- African languages, particularly Bantu
Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics; Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab; On leave for the 23-24 academic year
Office: 512 Lattimore Hall
Email: scott.grimm@rochester.edu
Office: 512 Lattimore Hall
Email: scott.grimm@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- The correspondence between syntactic cyclicity and prosodic recursion in words
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Associate Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3013 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-1351
Email: mehoque@cs.rochester.edu
Office: 3013 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-1351
Email: mehoque@cs.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Human Computer Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence
- Interactive machine learning
- Health and wellbeing
- Future of skills
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: 732 Computer Studies Building
Phone: (585) 275-3755
Email: thoward@ece.rochester.edu
Office: 732 Computer Studies Building
Phone: (585) 275-3755
Email: thoward@ece.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
- Motion Planning
- Human-Robot Interaction
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Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
Office: 320 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 276-3611
Email: Fjaeger@ur.rochester.edu
Office: 320 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 276-3611
Email: Fjaeger@ur.rochester.edu
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Associate Professor, Philosophy
Office: 519 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: jens.kipper@rochester.edu
Office: 519 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: jens.kipper@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language
Kuchmiichuk, Pavlo
Research Interests
- Low-resource NLP
- Grammatical Error Correction
- Computational Semantics
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Office: 304 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-0760
Email: ckuruma2@ur.rochester.edu
Office: 304 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-0760
Email: ckuruma2@ur.rochester.edu
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Ma, Yizhen
Marvin, Elizabeth West
Professor Music Theory and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Office: 109 ESM
Phone: (585) 274-1076
Email: bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu
Office: 109 ESM
Phone: (585) 274-1076
Email: bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu
McDonald, Betsy
Richard L. Turner Professor; Professor of Linguistics; Acting Department Chair, AY23-24
Office: 505 Lattimore Hall
Email: joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu
Office: 505 Lattimore Hall
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)
Michielsen, Bryan
Moon, Ellise
Research Interests
- Semantics
- Philosophy of language
- Abstraction
- Countability
Research Interests
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Definiteness
- Quantification
- Comparatives
- Southeast Asian Languages
- Fieldwork
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Patni, Suhasini
Research Interests
- Vietnamese
- Sociolinguistics
Assistant Professor of Linguistics; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Director of Field Syntax Lab
Office: 510 Lattimore Hall
Email: j.a.pietraszko@rochester.edu
Office: 510 Lattimore Hall
Email: j.a.pietraszko@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Syntax and Morphology
- Clausal Architecture
- Bantu Morphosyntax
- Selection and Complementation
- Syntactic Movement and Locality
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Rajendran Schmura, Suganya
Research Interests
- Tamil heritage language maintenance
- Language and identity
- Code-mixing and translanguaging
- Linguistic variation in Dravidian speech communities
- Decolonial anthropological linguistics
Richter, Stephanie
Research Interests
- Computational syntax and semantics
- Syntax-semantics interface
- Discourse and pragmatics
Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering; Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Office: 317L Lattimore Hall
Email: jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu
Office: 317L Lattimore Hall
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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Professor of Computer Science
Office: 3003 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8845
Email: schubert@cs.rochester.edu
Office: 3003 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8845
Email: schubert@cs.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Language and dialogue
- Knowledge representation and inference
- Schema learning and schema-based behavior
- Self-motivated agents
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Office: 521 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: zeynep.soysal@rochester.edu
Office: 521 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: zeynep.soysal@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mathematics
Spann, James
Srivastava, Shikhar
Email: ssrivas9@ur.rochester.edu
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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
Email: mktanenhaus@gmail.com
Research Interests
- psycholinguistics
- language and reading comprehension
Tang, Siwei
Temperley, David
Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
Office: ET 203 Eastman
Phone: (585) 274-1557
Email: dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu
Office: ET 203 Eastman
Phone: (585) 274-1557
Email: dtemperley@esm.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Music cognition
- Music-language connections
- Corpus linguistics
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Valinsky, Jack
Research Interests
- Computational semantics
- Linguistically inspired models of natural language understanding
- Event semantics
- Applications of category theory to formal semantics/syntax
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Associate Professor of Linguistics; Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics; Director of FACTS.lab
Office: 511A Lattimore Hall
Email: aaron.white@rochester.edu
Office: 511A Lattimore Hall
Email: aaron.white@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Computational Linguistics
- Natural Language Semantics
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Xu, Yuhang
Research Interests
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Sciences
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Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track
Office: 322 Meliora Hall
Phone: (585) 275-1812
Email: chung-lin.yang@rochester.edu
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
Yang, Lois
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Zhang, Congwen