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Ashia Wilson is a Career Development Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), specializing in electrical engineering and computer science. Her research focuses on designing scalable, reliable, and socially responsible artificial intelligence systems, utilizing tools from dynamical systems theory, statistics, and optimization. She obtained her B.A. in applied mathematics with a minor in philosophy from Harvard University and received her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining MIT, she held a postdoctoral position in the machine learning and statistics group at Microsoft Research. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, she contributed to the field through her notable work that received the NeurIPS ’17 Spotlight Paper Award for her paper titled 'The Marginal Value Adaptive Methods in Machine Learning.' Her publications include articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, and the International Conference on Machine Learning, among others. Additionally, she has served as a reviewer for NeurIPS and the Journal of Machine Learning.