Joy Buolamwini

Joy Buolamwini
Buolamwini at Wikimania 2018
Born
Joy Adowaa Buolamwini

(1990-01-23) 23 January 1990 (age 34)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
EducationCordova High School
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology (BS)
Jesus College, Oxford (MS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Known forAlgorithmic Justice League
Scientific career
FieldsMedia Arts & Sciences
Computer science
Algorithmic bias
InstitutionsMIT Media Lab
Theses
Doctoral advisorEthan Zuckerman[1]
Buolamwini's voice
recorded July 2018
Websitewww.poetofcode.com Edit this at Wikidata

Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Canadian-American computer scientist and digital activist formerly based at the MIT Media Lab.[2] She founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), an organization that works to challenge bias in decision-making software, using art, advocacy, and research to highlight the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence (AI).[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference phd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Joy Buolamwini". forbes.com. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  3. ^ "Algorithmic Justice League - Unmasking AI harms and biases". Algorithmic Justice League - Unmasking AI harms and biases. Retrieved May 15, 2021.