I’m Aaron Steven White. I do research in computational semantics at the University of Rochester.

This summer

I’m teaching courses on probabilistic dynamic semantics at the North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (23-27 June 2025) and the European Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (4-8 August 2025) with Julian Grove. I’ll also be giving a keynote talk on ontology-driven evaluation of summarization and retrieval systems at Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning.

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science and an affiliation with the Goergen Institute for Data Science. I’m also Director of the Center for Language Sciences (CLS) and the Formal and Computational Semantics Lab (FACTS.lab) at UR. An overview of my research can be found here.

Schedule

Before joining the University of Rochester, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Science of Learning Institute with affiliations in the Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Language and Speech Processing from 2015 to 2017. I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland in 2015.

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