Aaron Roth

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

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. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University in 2006, and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum.

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

Awards Roth received 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 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.