Emma Pierson (computer scientist)

Emma Pierson (Arlington, Virginia) is an American computer scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence.[1] She earned a degree in physics and then a master's in computer science from Stanford University, where she studied cognitive psychology and biocomputation. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship[2] for her work in using computers to solve biological problems, and specifically to work on cancer treatments.[3]

For Nicholas Kristoff's "On the Ground" (in The New York Times), she contributed "How to Get More Women to Join the Debate", a contribution on gender and social media,[4] and a follow-up on her methodology.[5] Pierson works with the GTEx Consortium using algorithms to study tissue-specific gene expression in an attempt to understand complex diseases in which limited availability of samples makes traditional research methods impractical.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Pierson, Emma (31 December 2012). "Knowing You Carry a Cancer Gene". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Kunkle, Frederick (24 November 2013). "Four Virginian students among Rhodes Scholarship recipients - The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Chatoor, Nehan (January 9, 2014). "Passion and academic acumen lead Pierson to Rhodes". Stanford, California: The Stanford Daily. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Pierson, Emma (6 January 2015). "How to Get More Women to Join the Debate". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Pierson, Emma (9 March 2015). "How to Get More Women to Join the Debate, Part II". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sharing and Specificity of Co-expression Networks across 35 Human Tissues". PLOS Computational Biology. May 13, 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
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