Faculty

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Maya Abtahian

Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath

she/her/hers

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics

Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

Office Location
514 Lattimore Hall
Web Address

Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift

James Allen

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

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Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning

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Asudeh, Ash

he/him/his

Professor of Linguistics

Director of Center for Language Sciences

Office Location
506 Lattimore Hall
Web Address

Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science

Paul Audi

Audi, Paul

he/him/his

Professor of Philosophy

Department Chair

Office Location
532B Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8112

Interests: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language

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Zhen Bai

Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3007 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7758
Web Address

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI

Loisa Bennetto

Bennetto, Loisa

Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience

Office Location
492 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8712
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Interests: Neurocognitive bases of autism; The role of multisensory processing in social-communication difficulties

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Laurel H. Carney

Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Neuroscience

Office Location
5-6438 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 276-3948
Web Address

Interests: Auditory neuroscience; neurophysiological behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids

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Daniel Gildea

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3019 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7230
Web Address

Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

Nadine Grimm

Grimm, Nadine

she/her/hers

James P. Wilmot Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Director of Language Documentation and Description Program

Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab

Office Location
509 Lattimore Hall

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Ehsan Hoque

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3013 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1351
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Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Thomas M. Howard

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location
732 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-3755

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

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Kipper, Jens

Associate Professor, Philosophy

Office Location
519 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4105
Web Address

Interests: Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language

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Elizabeth Marvin West

Marvin, Elizabeth West

Minehan Family Professor, Eastman School of Music, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
26 Gibbs Street ESM
Telephone
(ESM) (585) 274-1076
Telephone
(Mel) (585) 275-1812
Web Address

Interests: music cognition

Joyce McDonough

McDonough, Joyce M.

she/her/hers

Richard L. Turner Professor of Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics

Office Location
505 Lattimore Hall

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

Mary Moroney

Moroney, Mary

she/her/hers

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office Location
511 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Semantics; Syntax; Definiteness; Quantification; Comparatives; Southeast Asian Languages; Fieldwork

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Asia Pietraszko

Pietraszko, Asia

she/her/hers

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Director of Field Syntax Lab

Office Location
510 Lattimore Hall
Web Address

Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality

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Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

he/him/his

Professor of Linguistics

Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Vice Provost and University Dean for Undergraduate Education

Office Location
317L Lattimore Hall

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

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Lenhart K. Schubert

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

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

Soysal, Zeynep

Associate Professor in Philosophy

Office Location
521 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4105
Web Address

Interests: Epistemology; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mathematics

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Michael Tanenhaus

Tanenhaus, Michael K.

Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics

Interests: psycholinguistics; language and reading comprehension

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White, Aaron

he/him/his

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of FACTS.lab

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
Web Address

Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics

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Martin Yang

Yang, Chung-Lin Martin

Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Instructional Track

Office Location
322 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1812

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