Aaron Roth is an American computer scientist. He holds the title of Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Biography

Roth is the son of Alvin E. Roth, who was a professor at Harvard University and won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2012. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University in 2006 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Carnegie Mellon University under the guidance of Avrim Blum.

After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England for one year, Roth joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 as the Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor of Computer Science. In 2017, he was named the Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor.

Roth's research interests include algorithm design, algorithmic fairness, differential privacy, and algorithmic game theory.

Awards

Roth was awarded an NSF Career Award in 2013, a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016, and the Hans Sigrist Prize in 2023. He also won a PROSE Award in the Computer and Information Sciences category for his book The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design, which he co-authored with Michael Kearns.