Emma Pierson: Faculty Home Page

Emma Pierson
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Research Support
Taylor Kaserman
776 Soda
taylor.kase@berkeley.edu
Biography
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 machine learning methods for the health and social sciences, focusing in particular on reducing inequality and improving healthcare and public health. 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, a 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.
Her personal homepage provides additional details on her publications and research interests.
Education
2020, Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University
Research Areas
Research Centers
Teaching Schedule
CS 188. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, TuTh 17:00-18:29, Wheeler 150
CS 294-279. Special Topics, TuTh 15:30-16:59, Soda 405