Timnit Gebru
Personal Information
Born: 1983
Country of Birth: Ethiopia
Nationality: Eritrea
Ethnicity: Black
Education
Stanford University BS, MS, & PhD (2017) in Electrical Engineering
Professional Life
Field of Study: Computer Science
Institution/Corporation: Microsoft Research; Google; Apple
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Black in AI; Board of AddisCoder
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2021, 1 of the World s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune; 2021, 1 of 10 People Who Shaped Science in 2021, Nature; 2021, 1 of Times Most Influential People of 2021; 2019, AI Innovations Award in the category AI For Good, VentureBeats (with Joy Buolamwini & Inioluva Deborah Raji)
Achievements: co-founder & director Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) co-founder of Black in AI; fired from Google in 2020 for refusing to withdraw an as-yet-unpublished paper; granted political asylum in US fleeing the Eritrea-Ethiopian War; at Apple, developed signal processing algorithms for the 1st iPad; worked on facial recognition bias studies with Joy Buolamwini; DAIR researches the effects of AI on marginalized groups, especially Africa & African immigrants to the US; co-founder MotionThink;AI expert
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