Ashia Wilson

Lister Brothers (Gordon K. ’30 and Donald K. ’34) Career Development Assistant Professor

Ashia Wilson is a Lister Brothers Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT. Her research focuses on designing scalable, reliable and socially responsible AI systems using tools from dynamical systems theory, statistics, and optimization.
She obtained her B.A. from Harvard with a concentration in applied mathematics and a minor in philosophy, and 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, Wilson has received the NeurIPS ’17 Spotlight Paper Award for ‘The Marginal Value of Adaptive Methods in Machine Learning’, and 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.