Emma Pierson
Assistant Professor
Develops machine learning methods for health and social sciences, focusing on reducing inequality.
Emma Pierson's lab at UC Berkeley works in Machine Learning. 18 papers since 2023, 10 at top venues, mostly AAAI and FAccT. 5 PhD students. 2 alumni, most often to Meta. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 2
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 2
- 8 papers2024 · T1 6
- 3 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: AAAI, FAccT, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- social sciences0 papers
- sciences0 papers
- focusing0 papers
- computer sciences0 papers
- develops machine0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20263 papers
- Commun. ACMShaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Urban Incident Prediction with Graph Neural Networks: Integrating Government Ratings and Crowdsourced Reports (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)What's In My Human Feedback? Learning Interpretable Descriptions of Preference Data (opens in a new tab)
20254 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Evaluating multiple models using labeled and unlabeled data (opens in a new tab)
- CHILLearning Disease Progression Models That Capture Health Disparities (opens in a new tab)
- ICWSMLLMs Generate Structurally Realistic Social Networks but Overestimate Political Homophily (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Sparse Autoencoders for Hypothesis Generation (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- AAAI (T1)A Bayesian Spatial Model to Correct Under-Reporting in Urban Crowdsourcing (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Annotation alignment: Comparing LLM and human annotations of conversational safety (opens in a new tab)
- ICHIBeyond the Stethoscope: Operationalizing Interactive Clinical Reasoning in Large Language Models via Proactive Information Seeking (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Domain constraints improve risk prediction when outcome data is missing (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)MediQ: Question-Asking LLMs and a Benchmark for Reliable Interactive Clinical Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- FAccTParticipation in the age of foundation models (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)Reconciling the Accuracy-Diversity Trade-off in Recommendations (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Topics, Authors, and Institutions in Large Language Model Research: Trends from 17K arXiv Papers (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went2 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 1Academia 1
Most often to
- Meta
Also to
- Brown University
Apply to UC BerkeleyFall 2027
UC Berkeley EECS Computer Science PhD
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