International Women's Day Celebration: Data science for social equality

Abstract: Our society remains profoundly unequal. This talk presents vignettes about how data science can be used to combat inequality, focusing on public health and healthcare as application areas.

Bio: Emma Pierson is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and an incoming assistant professor of computer science at Cornell Tech. She develops data science and machine learning methods to study inequality and healthcare. Her work has been recognized by a Rhodes Scholarship, Hertz Fellowship, Rising Star in EECS, and Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science. She has written for The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Wired, and various other publications.