Emma Pierson

Emma Pierson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion, as well as a computer science field member at Cornell University. She holds a secondary joint appointment as an Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. Professor 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, and with an NSF CAREER award, Rhodes Scholarship, Hertz Fellowship, Rising Star in EECS, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, and Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science. Professor Pierson’s research has been published at venues including ICML, KDD, WWW, Nature, and Nature Medicine, and she has written for The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, Wired, and various other publications.