Aaron Roth is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania's Computer Science Department. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School and is affiliated with PRiML (Penn Research in Machine Learning), the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, and the AMCS program. He also co-directs the Networked and Social Systems Engineering program.

His research focuses on algorithms and machine learning, with interests in private data analysis, fairness in AI, game theory, mechanism design, and learning theory. He has received numerous accolades, including the Hans Sigrist Prize, a PECASE award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and grants from Google, Amazon, and the NSF.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England and earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University under Avrim Blum. He has consulted on algorithmic fairness, differential privacy, and machine learning for companies like Apple and Facebook and has served as a scientific advisor for Leapyear and Spectrum Labs. Currently, he is also an Amazon Scholar at AWS.