Emma Pierson
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@2plus2make5
Assistant prof @Berkeley_EECS, core faculty @UCJointCPH. Developing ML methods to study health & inequality. https://t.co/ok5Ap93rre
🎉 Excited that WIMHF was selected for an oral at ICLR 2026!
I'm honored to receive this year's @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! As an NSF Fellow, I will work on AI for scientific discovery by developing agents that can propose, test, and verify scientific hypotheses autonomously. I'm very grateful to my mentors for their guidance and support throughout my research career: @PandaAshwinee and @tomgoldsteincs at UMD, @rajivmovva and @2plus2make5 at Berkeley, and @Pavel_Izmailov and @andrewgwils at NYU.
New paper: "In Your Own Words"! We propose a computational framework for identifying interpretable themes from free-text survey data, and demonstrate its benefits on a new dataset of self-described race, gender, and sexual orientation. 🧵1/
I spent a weekend at Stanford recently, which is where, in 2023, I did much of my formative thinking on AI. The Anthropic-DoW affair tested that early intellectual foundation more than anything, so found myself walking around Stanford, reflecting on what I learned in 2023.
New in Nature Health: how might we move towards a world in which race is not used in clinical algorithms? We need (1) careful comparison of race-aware and race-neutral algorithms and (2) systemic efforts to address underlying disparities.
Had a great time presenting our work on building MIGRATE–a new dataset of US migration–at the @theAAG Annual Meeting today. Happy to also share that we received an AAG student paper award for this work!!! Come chat if you are at #AAG26 this week. migrate.tech.cornell.edu
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people — was the result of a targeting mistake. nyti.ms/47G2uw2
NeurIPS reviewers complained that LitBench, our crowdsourced creative writing preference dataset, might not reflect true “writing quality” So we trained SAEs on our dataset to find what aspects of writing regular people actually enjoy:
🎉 Excited that WIMHF was selected for an oral at ICLR 2026!
Our paper “Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States” is now out in @NatureComms! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9
