Ashia Wilson

Assistant Professor Ashia Wilson

Lister Brothers Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT

Website: https://www.ashiawilson.com/

Ashia is a Lister Brothers Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT. Her research focuses on various topics in artificial intelligence, optimization, and statistics.She obtained her B.A. from Harvard with a concentration in applied mathematics and a minor in philosophy, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in statistics. Before joining MIT, she held a postdoctoral position in the machine learning and statistics group at Microsoft Research.

A National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Ashia has received the NeurIPS ’17 Spotlight Paper Award for The Marginal Value of Adaptive Methods in Machine Learning and has performed research with Microsoft and Google AI. Her papers have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, and in the International Conference of Machine Learning, among others. Additionally, she has served as a reviewer for NeurIPS and the Journal of Machine Learning.