2020

Rediet Abebe is an Ethiopian computer scientist working in algorithms and artificial intelligence. She is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Abebe is the first female computer scientist and second Junior Fellow with a computer science Ph.D. to be inducted into the Society and the first Black woman to be appointed a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Abebe's research develops mathematical and computational frameworks for examining questions related to discrimination, poverty, and inequality. She co-founded the multi-institutional interdisciplinary research initiative Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) and Black in AI.

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