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

Recent and upcoming

I gave a talk at Penn on Characterizing uncertainty in lexically triggered inferences on January 30 as part of the MindCORE/ILST seminar series and will be giving a talk at ATScience 2026 on Chive, a decentralized eprint service on ATProto. I will be giving two posters at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4 in June 2026 on The context-sensitivity of subordinate clause selection and Aspectual similarity predicts sense similarity.

What I do

Aaron Steven White

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.

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How to Find me

Where I’ve been

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.

Johns Hopkins University

Where I am

My office

511A Lattimore Hall
University of Rochester
500 Joseph C Wilson Blvd.
Rochester, NY 14627