Irene Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT CSAIL, advised by Professor David Sontag in the Clinical Machine Learning group. Her research focuses on machine learning and its applications to solving important real-world problems including healthcare and fairness. Prior to MIT, Irene worked at Dropbox as Data Scientist, Chief of Staff, and Machine Learning Engineer. She graduated from Harvard with a joint AB/SM in Applied Math and Computational Engineering where she researched with Michael Luca and Ben Edelman.