Emma Pierson
@2plus2make5
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Assistant prof @Berkeley_EECS, core faculty @UCJointCPH. Developing ML methods to study health & inequality. https://t.co/ok5Ap93rre
Joined December 2013
🚨 New postdoc position in our lab @Berkeley_EECS! 🚨 (please retweet + share with relevant candidates). We seek applicants with experience in language modeling who are excited about high-impact applications in the health and social sciences!. More info in thread. 1/3
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If you want to see the great things that postdocs in our lab do, take a look at Divya's work - (Divya will also be on the job market this year!).
dmshanmugam.github.io
personal website
can't recommend highly enough!!.
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Apply here - by 11/15, but review of applications is ongoing so sooner is better! (Application deadline currently says 9/15 but will be extended).
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Broad project areas include:. 1) using language models for scientific discovery (building on our recent work - . 2) using language models to support equity ( . both in collaboration with health+social scientists. 2/3.
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RT @irenetrampoline: Thrilled to host @_KarenHao at the UC Berkeley AI and Society group on Thurs Sept 11 to discuss her book Empire of AI….
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RT @serinachang5: So honored to receive the KDD Outstanding Dissertation Award for my dissertation "Computational Methods for Human Network….
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RT @rajivmovva: 📢NEW POSITION PAPER: Use Sparse Autoencoders to Discover Unknown Concepts, Not to Act on Known Concepts. Despite recent res….
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RT @jxmnop: in college i was diagnosed with an unusual thyroid cancer. i tried building a pipeline to aggregate & summarize information fr….
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RT @StanfordHAI: In a new Science paper, top scholars from @Stanford, @UCBerkeley, @Princeton, and other leading institutions urge policyma….
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Experts from Stanford HAI and top universities urge policymakers to prioritize scientific understanding to govern frontier AI.
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RT @BerkeleyCDSS: As policymakers consider how to govern the use of #AI in the U.S. and beyond, @UCBerkeley researchers Jennifer Chayes, @i….
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Our package for hypothesis generation, HypotheSAEs, now allows you to use open-source LLMs. This is great if you're working with sensitive data you can't feed to APIs, or just don't want to spend money on API calls :P See details in Raj's thread below!.
🌟 HypotheSAEs update: open LLMs now supported for the full hypothesis generation pipeline!. Labeling SAE neurons and annotating concepts works very well with Qwen3-8B and larger models ⬇️ (notably, other models didn't work as well). Brief 🧵
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Our paper moved a market! (Albeit one that uses fake money.).
I've resolved this positively: 2 papers convincingly show sparse autoencoders beating baselines on real tasks: Hypothesis Generation & Auditing LLMs. SAEs shine when you don't know what you're looking for, but lack precision. Sometimes the right tool for the job, sometimes not.
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RT @natolambert: It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues.
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.@rajivmovva and @kennylpeng will be at ICML presenting our method, HypotheSAEs, for hypothesis generation from text - go chat with them!.
1. We will present HypotheSAEs at #ICML2025, Wednesday 11am (West Hall B2-B3 #W-421). 2. Let me know if you'd like to chat about:.- AI for hypothesis generation.- why SAEs are still useful.- whether PhD students should stay in school
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Honored to win a #CHIL2025 best paper award for our work modeling inequality in disease progression, led by @ericachiang_. @NIH health inequality remains a vital topic to support the health of all Americans. As we prove, failing to account for it biases estimates for everyone.
I can’t believe I’m saying this: our work received a Best Paper Award at #CHIL2025!! So so excited and grateful 🥰 Looking forward to day 2 of the conference with these awesome people :)
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RT @berkeley_ai: Congratulations to BAIR faculty @_ahmedmalaa and @serinachang5 who have been awarded Google Research Scholar Awards under….
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RT @andykonwinski: Today, I’m launching a deeply personal project. I’m betting $100M that we can help computer scientists create more upsid….
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The #NoKings protest we attended was peaceful and passionate. Cars honking constantly in support, American flags and California flags and pride flags, young children and old folks, a woman in king's robes, a little boy with a "bad DOGE much wow" sign.
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Every single one of my highest impact papers has been written with immigrants + international collaborators. America has 4% of the world population; our scientific greatness has always relied on geniuses from all over the world. These policies are both cruel and self-destructive.
Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."
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RT @jennwvaughan: Please help us spread the word! 📣 . FATE is hiring a pre-doc research assistant! We're looking for candidates who will ha….
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