People
Full Directory
A
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Office: 514 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4258
Email: maya.r.abtahian@rochester.edu
Office: 514 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4258
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
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Office: 3011 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7263
Email: james@cs.rochester.edu
Office: 3011 Wegmans Hall
Phone: (585) 275-7263
Email: james@cs.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Natural language understanding
- Discourse
- Knowledge representation
- Common-sense reasoning
- Planning
Associate 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
Office: 506 Lattimore
Phone: (585) 275-5907
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
B
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
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
Bui, Beryl
MA student (Linguistics)
Research Interests
- Phonetics and phonology
- Syntax
- Bilingualism
- Early language development
Burchill, Zach
Research Interests
- Speech perception
- Adaptation
- Perceptual maintenance
Burrage, Veronica
Research Interests
- Morphosyntax (agglutination and polysynthesis)
- Syntax interfacing with semantics and pragmatics
- Philosophy of language and linguistics
- Cultural anthropology
- Fieldwork
C
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
Colby, Camille
Research Interests
- Language documentation and description of endangered languages
G
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, Department of Linguistics; Director of Language Documentation and Description Program
Office: 509 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 273-2366
Email: nadine.grimm@rochester.edu
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
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
Office: 512 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-5136
Email: scott.grimm@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- The correspondence between syntactic cyclicity and prosodic recursion in words
H
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
J
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
K
Assistant 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
Kirshner, Scott
Research Interests
- Semantics/pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
- The intersection of linguistics and cognitive science
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
L
Liu, Zhendong
MS student (Computational Linguistics)
Research Interests
- Computational semantics
- Lexical semantics
- Syntax
M
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, Department of Linguistics
Office: 505 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2895
Email: joyce.mcdonough@rochester.edu
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)
Michielsen, Bryan
Moon, Ellise
Research Interests
- Semantics
- Philosophy of language
- Abstraction
- Countability
Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics
Office: 511 Lattimore Hall
Email: mary.moroney@rochester.edu
Office: 511 Lattimore Hall
Email: mary.moroney@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Definiteness
- Quantification
- Southeast Asian Languages
P
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office: 510 Lattimore Hall
Email: asia.pietraszko@rochester.edu
Office: 510 Lattimore Hall
Email: asia.pietraszko@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Syntax and Morphology
- Clausal Architecture
- Processes underlying Structure Building
- Bantu Morphosyntax
R
Research Interests
- Multivoxel pattern analysis of fMRI
- Language, semantics
- Structure of neural representations
- Computational modeling
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
Phone: (585) 273-5000
Email: jeffrey.runner@rochester.edu
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
S
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
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Office: 524 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: zeynep.soysal@rochester.edu
Office: 524 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4105
Email: zeynep.soysal@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Mathematics
T
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
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
V
Valinsky, Jack
MS student (Computational Linguistics)
Research Interests
- Computational semantics
- Linguistically inspired models of natural language understanding
- Event semantics
- Applications of category theory to formal semantics/syntax
W
Wang, Dan
Research Interests
- Knowledge extraction based on computational semantics
- Sentiment analysis
- Machine translation
- Automatic speech recognition from a spontaneous speech
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director of FACTS.lab
Office: 511A Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8053
Email: aaron.white@rochester.edu
Office: 511A Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-8053
Email: aaron.white@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Computational psycholinguistics
- Syntactic and semantic theory
- First language acquisition
X
Xu, Yuhang
Research Interests
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Sciences
Y
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