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Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics
Co-Director of Grammar and Variation Lab
- Office Location
- 514 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language contact; Language shift
Aceves Rodriguez, Constanza
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PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language documentation and description; Computational linguistics; Mesoamerican languages
Adeleke, Lateef
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language Documentation & Description; Natural Language Processing; African Languages
Allen, James F.
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Interests: Natural language understanding; Discourse; Knowledge representation; Common-sense reasoning; Planning
Asudeh, Ash
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Professor of Linguistics
Director of Center for Language Sciences
- Office Location
- 506 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Logic, Language, and Computation; Cognitive Science
Audi, Paul
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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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Bai, Zhen
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
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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
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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Cao, Angela
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Semantics; Causality; Conceptual Reasoning
Carlson, Greg
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Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Interests: Semantic Theory; Psycholinguistics; Discourse
Carney, Laurel H.
Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 5-6438 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3948
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Interests: Auditory neuroscience; neurophysiological behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids
Charest, Jessica
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Language documentation and revitalization
Choi, Woo Jin
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Semantics; Natural Language Processing
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Ersöyleyen, Elif Ebru
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Formal Semantics; Logic; Syntax; Natural Language Metaphysics
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Gantt, William
PhD Student
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- Website
Gegg-Harrison, Whitney, PhD
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- G121-H Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5363
Gildea, Daniel
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3019 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7230
- Web Address
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Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing
Grimm, Nadine
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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
Grimm, Scott
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Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics
Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab
- Office Location
- 512 Lattimore Hall
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Hoque, Ehsan
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3013 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1351
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- Website
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 Location
- 732 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction
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Isaac, Bryan
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Syntactic Theory; Comparative Syntax; Case and Agreement; Language Documentation
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Jaeger, T. Florian
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 320 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3611
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Jin, Zhisheng
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MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Kipper, Jens
Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Office Location
- 519 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4105
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- Website
Interests: Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language
Kurumada, Chigusa
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 304 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0760
- Web Address
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Lin, Shengxiang
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MA student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Ma, Yizhen
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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
- Website
Interests: music cognition
McDonough, Joyce M.
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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)
Michielsen, Bryan
Department Manager
- Office Location
- 503 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
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Moon, Ellise
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PhD student in Linguistics and Philosophy (MA Linguistics, 2020)
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
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Interests: Semantics; Philosophy of language; Abstraction; Countability
Moroney, Mary
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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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Owoyele, Oluwasegun Joseph
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Phonology; Language Documentation and Description; Sociolinguistics
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Pietraszko, Asia
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Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Field Syntax Lab
- Office Location
- 510 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Syntax and Morphology; Clausal Architecture; Bantu Morphosyntax; Selection and Complementation; Syntactic Movement and Locality
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Rajendran Schmura, Suganya
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PhD student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Tamil heritage language maintenance; Language and identity; Code-mixing and translanguaging; Linguistic variation in Dravidian speech communities; Decolonial anthropological linguistics
Randula, K. K. Ganushka
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MA student in Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Phonology; Morphology; Lexicography
Richter, Stephanie
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PhD student in Linguistics and Computer Science
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational syntax and semantics; Syntax-semantics interface; Discourse and pragmatics
Runner, Jeffrey T.
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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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Schubert (retired), Lenhart K.
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
- Website
Interests: Epistemology; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mathematics
Spann, James
PhD Student
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Srivastava, Shikhar
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Tanenhaus, Michael K.
Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics
Interests: psycholinguistics; language and reading comprehension
Temperley, David
Associate Professor of Music Theory
- Office Location
- 409 ESM - Annex
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Valinsky, Jack
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MS student in Computational Linguistics
- Office Location
- 515 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational semantics; Linguistically inspired models of natural language understanding; Event semantics; Applications of category theory to formal semantics/syntax
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White, Aaron
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Associate Professor of Linguistics
Director of FACTS.lab
- Office Location
- 511A Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics
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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