Hannah Rohde is a Professor in Linguistics & English Language at the University of Edinburgh.  She works in experimental pragmatics, using psycholinguistic techniques to investigate questions about how speakers formulate their messages and how listeners draw inferences from what they hear.  Her work focuses on aspects of communication such as ambiguity, redundancy, deception, and the establishment of discourse coherence. Her background includes an undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Linguistics from Brown University, followed by a PhD in Linguistics at the University of California San Diego, with postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern and Stanford. Broadly, her work emphasizes the value of studying human language through the lens of computational models of information transfer and cooperative interaction, and this approach has been pursued via novel and rewarding collaborations with linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists.  She is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures.