Emma Pierson is the Zhang Family Endowed professor and assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and core faculty in the Computational Precision Health program. Pierson develops data science and machine learning methods to study inequality and healthcare.
Her work has been recognized by best paper, poster, and talk awards, 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.
Her research has been published in venues including Nature, Science, JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, PNAS, ICML and NeurIPS, and she has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, and various other publications.
