Aaron White
Director at University of Rochester
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAaron White is a computational linguist and NLP researcher with 12+ years of experience who directs the Center for Language Sciences and leads FACTS.lab while serving as an associate professor at the University of Rochester. He builds large-scale, interpretable language systems—spanning event-keyed summarization, multilingual information extraction, and semantic parsing—and has a strong record of publishing in top computational linguistics and cognitive science venues. As PI on multiple federally funded, cross-institutional projects he has managed 1000+ annotator data collections, integrated research into curricula, and mentored teams of postdocs and students. His current work explores neurosymbolic meaning representation, controllable summarization, structured-query retrieval, and LLM interpretability, combining formal linguistic theory with practical tool and dataset releases used by major research groups.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aaronstevenwhite/ImplicativeExperiments
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
decompositional-semantics-initiative/decompositional-semantics-initiative.github.io
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
The Decompositional Semantics Initiative website
Contributions:97 commits, 2 PRs, 70 pushes in 3 years 2 months
initiativesemantics
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