Rediet Abebe
Personal Information
Born: 1991
Country of Birth: Ethiopia
Nationality: Ethiopia
Ethnicity: Black
Education
Cornell University (Ph.D., M.S.)University of Cambridge (M.A.)Harvard University (M.S., B.A.)
Professional Life
Field of Study: Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence
Institution/Corporation: University of California, Berkeley
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR); Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), Center for Information Technologyn Research in the Interest of Society-the Banatao Institute (CITRIS); Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics, & Microeconomics at Berkeley (CLIMB); Berkeley Equity & Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization Research Group (BEAAMO); MD4SG; Black in AI
Awards & Achievements
Awards: Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2022); Harvard Society of Fellows (2019); MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2019); 2020, ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award; 2020, Innovation for Equity, Rising Star Award; 2020, 100 Most Influential Young Africans, Afican Youth Award; 2018, Bloomberg 50, One to Watch; 2018, Harvard-Cambridge Fellowship
Achievements: first woman computer scientist to be appointed to the Harvard Society of Fellows
1st female & Black computer scientist appointed to the Harvard Society of Fellows
Founded MD4SG & Black in AI
Born & raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; left for educational purposes
Developes techniques in AI & algorithms with a focus on inequality & distributive justice
1st Black female professor in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Dept at UC Berkeley