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Emma Pierson (opens in a new tab), assistant professor of computer science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, is one of 19 researchers who have been awarded an AI2050 Early Career Fellowship (opens in a new tab) from Schmidt Sciences for her work seeking to use artificial intelligence to promote equity.
Pierson, also a computer science field member at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, is working on “Using LLMs (large-language models) for Health Equity.” As a member of the second cohort of Early Career Fellows, she will receive $300,000 over two years from Schmidt Sciences (opens in a new tab) to further her work related to artificial intelligence and health care.