Research Expertise and Interest

data science, machine learning, inequality, Healthcare

Research Description

Emma Pierson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, affiliated with the Berkeley AI Research Lab, Computational Precision Health, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI. Her work develops data science and machine learning methods to study two broad areas: inequality and healthcare. Please see the "Publications" link for representative papers. Her work has been recognized by best paper awards at KDD and AISTATS, an NSF CAREER award, a Rhodes Scholarship, Hertz Fellowship, Rising Star in EECS, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, AI2050 Early Career Fellowship, and Samsung AI Researcher of the Year. She writes a statistics blog, Obsession with Regression, and has also written for The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Wired, and various other publications.