August 2025: Read Dr. Bastian Rieck’s blog post about my research stay at his lab and the importance of academic exchange programs akin to Fulbright — now more than ever. You can check it out here.
July 2025: Check out my blog post about our recent paper, No Metric to Rule Them All: Toward Principled Evaluations of Graph-Learning Datasets (ICML 2025).
Hi, I’m Emily.
I recently returned from my research stay as a visiting student with the AI for Data-Oriented Science (AIDOS) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Bastian Rieck, funded by the 2024-2025 Fulbright Study/Research grant.
Before that, I completed my bachelor’s degree at Bowdoin College, where I majored in math and minored in computer science. Go Polar Bears!
I am the proud younger sister of Alex Simons, a wonderful math PhD student at the University of California, Davis, and, more importantly, a wonderful human.
I firmly believe in and am committed to upholding Dr. Federico Ardila-Mantilla’s axioms:
Axiom 1. Mathematical potential is equally present in different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
Axiom 2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
Axiom 3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
Axiom 4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
Let’s connect!
You can find me on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simons-emily/
GitHub: https://github.com/emsimons
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5725-594X
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emsimons.bsky.social
X: https://x.com/simons_emilym
Be aware/beware - I am not very active on social media. For all important messages, please shoot me an email.