Emma Pierson

Research Areas

Research Centers

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2025

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. She will be taking PhD students in Fall 2025; please apply to Berkeley in Fall 2024 and mention her name in your application if you are interested in working with her.

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.

Her personal homepage provides additional details on her publications and research interests.

Education

  • 2020, Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University