Aaron Roth
{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
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| alma_mater = Columbia University
Carnegie Mellon University
| doctoral_advisor = Avrim Blum
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| known_for = Algorithm design
| website = [https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/ Aaron Roth at the University of Pennsylvania]
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| prizes = Hans Sigrist Prize (2023)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2016)
Sloan Research Fellowship (2015)
NSF Career Award (2013)
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| field = Computer theory
| father = Alvin E. Roth
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Aaron Roth is an American computer scientist. He is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite web |title=Aaron Roth |url=https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=www.cis.upenn.edu}}
Biography
Roth is the son of Alvin E. Roth, a former Harvard University professor who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2012.{{Cite web |title=Al Roth, Father of NETS' Own Prof. Aaron Roth, Wins Nobel Prize in Economics! {{!}} |url=https://www.nets.upenn.edu/fstory/al-roth-father-of-nets-own-prof-aaron-roth-wins-nobel-prize-in-economics |access-date=2023-01-05 |language=en-US}} He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University in 2006,{{Cite web |title=Columbia College Today |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul_aug06/quads5a.html |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}} and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum.
Roth spent a year as a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2011 as the Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor of Computer Science and was made Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor in 2017.{{Cite web |title=Aaron Roth: Class of 1940 Professor |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/aaron-roth-class-of-1940-professor |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=almanac.upenn.edu |language=en}}
Roth's research interests include algorithm design, algorithmic fairness, differential privacy, and algorithmic game theory.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-19 |title=Amazon Scholars Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth discuss the ethics of machine learning |url=https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/amazon-scholars-michael-kearns-and-aaron-roth-discuss-the-ethics-of-machine-learning |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=Amazon Science |language=en}}
Awards
Roth received an NSF Career Award in 2013,{{Cite web |title=03/19/13, Honors & Other Things - Almanac, Vol. 59, No. 25 |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v59/n25/hot.html#nsf |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=almanac.upenn.edu}} a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015,{{Cite web |title=3/17/15, Honors & Other Things - Almanac, Vol. 61, No. 26 |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v61/n26/honors-other-things.html#sloan |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=almanac.upenn.edu}} a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016.{{Cite web |title=04/26/16, Honors & Other Things - Almanac, Vol. 62, No. 32 |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v62/n32/honors-other-things.html |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=almanac.upenn.edu}} and the Hans Sigrist Prize in 2023.{{Cite web|title=Aaron Roth: Pioneer of fair algorithms {{!}} |url=https://www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2023/aaron_roth_pioneer_of_fair_algorithms/index_eng.html|access-date=2023-11-25|website=www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch}} He also received a PROSE Award in the Computer and Information Sciences category for his book The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design co-authored with Michael Kearns.{{Cite web |title=2021 Award Winners |url=https://proseawards.com/winners/2021-award-winners/ |access-date=2023-01-05 |website=PROSE Awards |language=en-US}}
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