PDF《Emma Pierson》

Emma Pierson EDUCATION PhD, Computer Science, Stanford University

2015 - Present MS by Research, Statistics, Oxford University

2014 -

2015 MS, Computer Science, Stanford University Winter

2013 - Spring

2013 Concentrations in Arti?cial Intelligence and Biocomputation, GPA: 4.

03/4.00 BS, Physics (with distinction), Stanford University Fall

2009 - Spring

2013 Concentration in Theoretical Physics, GPA: 3.97/4.00 HONORS EECS Rising Star

2018 Best paper award, AISTATS

2018 Best poster award, ICML Workshop on Computational Biology

2016 Best talk award, ISMB High Throughput Sequencing SIG

2015 Hertz Fellow

2014 NDSEG Fellow

2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellow (declined)

2014 Gates-Cambridge Scholarship Finalist (withdrew from consideration)

2013 Rhodes Scholar

2013 Marshall Scholar (declined)

2013 Deans' Award, Stanford (awarded to 5-10 undergraduates for "outstanding academic contributions")

2013 2nd place, US National Debate Championships

2013 3rd place, Kaggle Job Recommendation Engine Competition ($2,000)

2012 Levinthal Tutorial Recipient, Non-?ction Writing, Stanford

2011 National Merit Scholar

2009 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS *denotes co-?rst authorship. Emma Pierson, Tim Altho?, Daniel Thomas, Paula Hillard, and Jure Leskovec. "The menstrual cycle is a primary contributor to cyclic variation in women's mood, behavior, and vital signs". Working paper, 2019. Emma Pierson, Camelia Simoiu, Jan Overgoor, Sam Corbett-Davies, Daniel Jenson, Amy Shoemaker, Vignesh Ramachandran, Phoebe Barghouty, Cheryl Phillips, Ravi Shro?, and Sharad Goel. "A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States." Working paper, 2019. (Featured in The Economist, NBC, The Marshall Project, CNN, The LA Times, and The Daily Show, among others.) Emma Pierson*, Pang Wei Koh*, Tatsunori Hashimoto*, Daphne Koller, Jure Leskovec, Nick Eriksson and Percy Liang. "Inferring Multidimensional Rates of Aging from Cross-Sectional Data". AISTATS 2019;

NeurIPS ML For Health Workshop,

2018 (spotlight talk);

ICML Workshop on Computational Biology (oral presentation), 2018. Bo Liu*, Shuyang Shi*, Yongshang Wu*, Daniel Thomas, Laura Symul, Emma Pierson and Jure Leskovec. "Predicting pregnancy using large-scale data from a women's health tracking mobile application". The Web Conf,

2019 (Health on the Web Short Paper Track);

NeurIPS ML For Health Workshop, 2018. Emma Pierson, Tim Altho?, Jure Leskovec. "Modeling Individual Cyclic Variation in Human Behavior". WWW,

2018 (featured in Nature Medicine: "Discovery cycle", Shraddha Chakradhar). Emma Pierson, Sam Corbett-Davies, Sharad Goel. "Fast Threshold Tests for Detecting Discrimination". AISTATS

2018 (best paper award). Anosheh Afghahi, Natasha Purington, Summer S Han, Manisha Desai, Emma Pierson, Maya B. Mathur, Tina Seto, Caroline A Thompson, Joseph Rigdon, Melinda L Telli, Sunil S Badve, Christina Curtis, Robert B. West, Kathleen Horst, Scarlett Lin Gomez, James M Ford, George W. Sledge, Allison W. Kurian. "Higher Absolute Lymphocyte Counts Predict Lower Mortality from Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer". Clinical Cancer Research, 2018. Emma Pierson. "Demographics and discussion in?uence views on algorithmic fairness". Working paper, 2018. Sam Corbett-Davies, Emma Pierson, Avi Feller, Sharad Goel, Aziz Huq. "Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness." KDD, 2017. Pang Wei Koh*, Emma Pierson*, Anshul Kundaje. "Denoising genome-wide histone ChIP-seq with convolutional neural networks". Bioinformatics/ISMB 2017;

ICML Workshop on Computational Biology (spotlight talk;

best poster award). Bo Wang, Junjie Zhu, Emma Pierson, Daniele Ramazzotti, Sera?m Batzoglou. "Visualization and analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data by kernel-based similarity learning". Nature Methods, 2017. Emma Pierson. "Detecting and predicting beautiful sunsets with social media data". Climate Informatics Workshop,

2016 (spotlight talk). Emma Pierson and Christopher Yau. ZIFA: Dimensionality reduction for zero-in?ated single-cell gene expression analysis. Genome Biology, 2015;

best talk award at HitSeq

2015 (SIG of ISMB/ECCB). Emma Pierson, the GTEx Consortium, Daphne Koller, Alexis Battle, Sara Mostafavi. "Sharing and speci?city of co-expression networks across

35 human tissues". PLoS Computational Biology, 2015. Emma Pierson. "Outnumbered but Well-Spoken: Female Commentators in the New York Times". CSCW, 2015. Emma Pierson and Noah Goodman. "Uncertainty and denial: a resource-rational model of the value of information". PLoS One, 2014. SELECTED NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Emma Pierson. "PhDs without tears: how academics can help ease students' minds". Times Higher Education, 2019. Emma Pierson. "Hey, computer scientists! Stop hating on the humanities". Wired, 2017. Mary Nugent and Emma Pierson. "Here's What People Say When They Attack Hillary Clinton on Twit- ter". The Washington Post, 2016. Sam Corbett-Davies, Emma Pierson, Avi Feller, Sharad Goel. "A computer program used for bail and sentencing decisions was labeled biased against blacks. It's actually not that clear." The Washington Post, 2016. Emma Pierson. "Is sexist rhetoric a total frat move?". The New York Times, 2016. Emma Pierson. "Of mansplaining and mastectomies". The New York Times, 2016. Emma Pierson. "College Students Aren't the Only Ones Abusing Adderall". FiveThirtyEight, 2015. Emma Pierson and Shengwu Li. "A Better Way to Gauge How Common Sexual Assault is on College Campuses". The Washington Post, 2015. Emma Pierson and Leah Pierson. "What do campus protestors really want?". The New York Times, 2015. Emma Pierson. "Re: our relationship". The Atlantic, 2015. Brian Clifton, Emma Pierson, Gilad Lotan. "How to Tell if a Twitter User is Pro-Choice or Pro-Life C Without Reading Any of Their Tweets". Quartz, 2015. Emma Pierson. "How to get more women to join the debate". The New York Times, 2015. Emma Pierson. "Seeking a cancer-free world". The New York Times, 2015. Emma Pierson. "See How Red Tweeters and Blue Tweeters Ignore Each Other on Ferguson". Quartz, 2014. Emma Pierson. "In Science, It Matters that Women Come Last". FiveThirtyEight, 2014. Emma Pierson. "Knowing you carry a cancer gene". The New York Times, 2012. Emma Pierson. "Why I Play Chess". Susan Polgar Chess Blog, 2007. REVIEWING ICLR Workshop on Debugging Machine Learning Models

2019 The Web Conference

2019 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*)

2018 JMLR

2018 CSCW

2018 IJCAI

2018 Biostatistics

2017 ICML

2015 ECCB

2014 Bioinformatics

2013 INVITED TALKS/PANELS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS Twitter FairML Speaker Series

2019 Evidation Health

2019 Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab

2019 NBER Machine Learning and Healthcare Conference

2019 Salesforce Research

2019 Microsoft Research AI Breakthroughs Workshop

2018 Facebook, Computation Social Science Group

2018 Hertz Foundation Summer Workshop

2018 Stanford CS 106S Guest Lecture: Programming Abstractions and Social Good

2018 Stanford CS

181 Guest Lecture: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy

2018 AlterConf San Francisco

2017 JSM, "Essential Skills for Communicating Statistics"

2017 Stanford CS 106S Guest Lecture: Programming Abstractions and Social Good

2017 WORK EXPERIENCE Research internship, Calico Summer

2017 C Spring

2018 ? Conducted analyses of aging in the UK Biobank dataset. Researcher, 23andMe Fall

2013 C Fall

2014 ? Performed analyses of genetic and phenotypic information. Data Analyst, Coursera Summer

2013 ? Performed statistical analyses to aid Coursera's mission of providing free online education: modeled the role of education in democratic development, ways of increasing gender equity, and ways of improving peer grading, among others. ? Built tools for data export to facilitate research in educational institutions around the world. LEADERSHIP/SERVICE Live-in Counselor, Bridge Peer Counseling Center Summer

2011 C Summer

2013 ? One of four students selected to lead the Bridge, Stanford's Volunteer Student Organization of the Year in 2012, as a live-in counselor;

provided psychological counseling to Stanford students between

12 AM and

9 AM, advised and supported Bridge sta?, made leadership decisions in collaboration with campus psychologists ? Performed a statistical analysis of calls;

reported for the ?rst time on the periods when suicide calls were most likely to occur, on the counselors who were most e?ective, and on the factors explaining their success. Research presented to campus psychological health authorities. Created computer program to allow non-statisticians to automatically perform future analyses. President, Stanford Debate Society

2012 ? Managed a $300,000 budget;

made it to elimination rounds at national and international competitions, including the World Championships, the North American Championships, the US Championships, Harvard, and Yale (2009-2013)