Arshia Asudeh, known as Ash Asudeh, is a Canadian linguist specialising in semantics, syntax and cognitive science, and based at Carleton University and the University of Oxford; in 2016, the latter awarded him the title of Professor of Semantics.
Ash Asudeh graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in cognitive science in 1996, before completing a two-year MPhil at the University of Edinburgh with a thesis entitled Anaphora and argument structure: topics in the syntax and semantics of reflexives and reciprocals.
Between 1998 and 2004, he completed a PhD at the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, successfully defending a thesis on Resumption as resource management.
[1][2] In 2016, the University of Oxford awarded him the title of Professor of Semantics.
[3] Asudeh's research focuses on semantics, pragmatics, syntax, cognitive science, computational linguistics, language and logic.