Biography:Emma Pierson (computer scientist)

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Emma Pierson (Arlington, Virginia) is an American computer scientist who specializes in artificial intelligence.[1] She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.[2] 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 received a PhD in 2020 at Stanford under Jure Leskovec. 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 Kristof'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. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/carrying-a-cancer-gene-unsure-i-want-to-know/?_r=0. Retrieved August 19, 2022. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kunkle, Frederick (24 November 2013). "Four Virginian students among Rhodes Scholarship recipients - The Washington Post". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/four-virginian-students-among-rhodes-scholarship-recipients/2013/11/24/f994612e-5543-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html. Retrieved 13 September 2015. 
  3. ↑ Chatoor, Nehan (January 9, 2014). "Passion and academic acumen lead Pierson to Rhodes". Stanford, California: The Stanford Daily. http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/01/09/passion-and-academic-acumen-lead-pierson-to-rhodes/. Retrieved 17 September 2015. 
  4. ↑ Pierson, Emma (6 January 2015). "How to Get More Women to Join the Debate". The New York Times. http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/how-to-get-more-women-to-join-the-debate/. 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. http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/how-to-get-more-women-to-join-the-debate-part-ii/. Retrieved 13 September 2015. 
  6. ↑ Pierson, Emma; Koller, Daphne; Battle, Alexis; Mostafavi, Sara; Mostafavi, S.; Ardlie, K. G.; Getz, G.; Wright, F. A. et al. (May 13, 2015). "Sharing and Specificity of Co-expression Networks across 35 Human Tissues". PLOS Computational Biology 11 (5): e1004220. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004220. PMID 25970446. Bibcode: 2015PLSCB..11E4220P. 



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