Emma Brunskill

Emma Brunskill is an associate tenured professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, a principal investigator on the Empowering Peer Supporters team (a Stage 1 impact lab), and a 2023 Scholar in Service working with Carnegie Learning to leverage AI to improve middle school math educational outcomes.

Emma's goal is to create AI systems that learn from few samples to robustly make good decisions, motivated by our applications to healthcare and education. Her lab is part of the Stanford AI Lab, the Stanford Statistical ML group, and AI Safety @Stanford. She was previously an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University and her work has been honored by early faculty career awards (National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Microsoft Research (1 of 7 worldwide).