Ashia Wilson

Ashia Wilson is a 2023 principal investigator at the MIT Jameel Clinic. She is an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on optimisation, algorithmic decision making, dynamical systems and fairness within large scale machine learning.

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 has performed research with Microsoft and Google AI.

Ashia took her bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard and aPhD in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.