I am a Lister Brothers Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT.  My research focuses on various topics in artificial intelligence, optimization, and statistics.  Here is a list of some information about me (CV, Publications, Contact).  

Short Bio: I obtained my B.A. from Harvard with a concentration in applied mathematics and a minor in philosophy, and my Ph.D.  from UC Berkeley in statistics. Before joining MIT, I held a postdoctoral position in the machine learning and statistics group at Microsoft Research.  

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• MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  (EECS)

• MIT Lab for Information and Decisions Systems (LIDS)

• MIT Statistics and Data Science Center 

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• My group is partnering with FAS and the Healthy ML Lab to reform organ procurement organizations in the US using data (see announcement) 

• Recent PC Activity: FAccT (2021), FORC (2022), COLT (2022), NeurIPS (2021, 2022)

• I am a co-chair for the 2021 Rising Stars Workshop program hosted by MIT EECS

• I am co-organizing the Berkeley Simons program on Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling and  

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Ashia C. Wilson