<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-group-header" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-title gmail-field-type-ds gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span class="gmail-odd gmail-first gmail-last" style="box-sizing:inherit"><h1 class="gmail-title" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:300;padding:0px;font-feature-settings:"kern","liga","dlig";font-size:1.76471em;line-height:normal;font-stretch:normal;color:rgb(0,60,118);text-transform:uppercase;display:inline-block">S&DS|CS JOINT SEMINAR, EMMA PIERSON</h1></span></span></span><span class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-university gmail-field-type-text gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-left:5px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span class="gmail-odd gmail-first gmail-last" style="box-sizing:inherit">Stanford University</span></span></span><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-abstract-title gmail-field-type-text gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:20px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0.5em">Data science methods to reduce inequality and improve healthcare</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-group-left" style="box-sizing:inherit;float:left;width:auto;padding-right:15.3125px;max-width:30%;font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-image gmail-field-type-image gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit"><img src="https://statistics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/user_picture_node/public/new.011014.rhodes1.jpg?itok=ehbYVCZn" width="400" height="480" alt="" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: bottom;"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-group-right" style="box-sizing:inherit;float:left;width:auto;max-width:65%;padding-left:22.9688px;font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-event-time gmail-field-type-datetime gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,60,118);font-size:18px;line-height:1.4"><span class="gmail-date-display-single" style="box-sizing:inherit">Monday, February 24, 2020<span class="gmail-date-display-range" style="box-sizing:inherit;float:left;width:396.484px"><span class="gmail-date-display-start" style="box-sizing:inherit">4:00PM</span> to <span class="gmail-date-display-end" style="box-sizing:inherit">5:00PM</span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-location gmail-field-type-location gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-location gmail-vcard" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-adr" style="box-sizing:inherit"><span class="gmail-fn" style="box-sizing:inherit">YINS</span> <span class="gmail-map-icon" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-left:0.25em;font-size:0.925em;line-height:1.55;letter-spacing:0.05em;word-spacing:0.05em;text-transform:lowercase;font-feature-settings:"smcp""><a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=17+Hillhouse+Avenue%2C+Rm.+328%2C+New+Haven%2C+CT%2C+06511%2C+us" style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(40,109,192)">see map</a> </span><div class="gmail-street-address" style="box-sizing:inherit">17 Hillhouse Avenue, Rm. 328</div><span class="gmail-locality" style="box-sizing:inherit">New Haven</span>, <span class="gmail-region" style="box-sizing:inherit">CT</span> <span class="gmail-postal-code" style="box-sizing:inherit">06511</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-field-website gmail-field-type-link-field gmail-field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://cs.stanford.edu/~emmap1/index.html" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,60,118);font-size:16px">Website</a></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-group-footer" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;padding-top:15px;font-family:Mallory,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-name-body gmail-field-type-text-with-summary gmail-field-label-above" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-label" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold">Information and Abstract: </div><div class="gmail-field-items" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-field-item even" style="box-sizing:inherit"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">I will describe how to use data science methods to understand and reduce inequality in two domains: criminal justice and healthcare. First, I will discuss how to use Bayesian modeling to detect racial discrimination in policing. Second, I will describe how to use machine learning to explain racial and socioeconomic inequality in pain.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">Bio: Emma Pierson is a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford, supported by Hertz and NDSEG Fellowships. Previously, she completed a master’s degree in statistics at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. She develops statistical and machine learning methods to study two deeply entwined problems: reducing inequality and improving healthcare. She also writes about these topics for broader audiences in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, and Wired. Her work has been recognized by best paper (AISTATS 2018), best poster (ICML Workshop on Computational Biology), and best talk (ISMB High Throughput Sequencing Workshop) awards, and she has been named a Rising Star in EECS and Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div>