Rediet Abebe

Rediet Abebe
Born
Rediet Abebe

1991 (age 32–33)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Alma mater
Awards
  • Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2022)
  • Harvard Society of Fellows (2019)
  • MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2019)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Designing Algorithms for Social Good  (2019)
Doctoral advisorJon M. Kleinberg
Websitewww.cs.cornell.edu/~red/
md4sg.com

Rediet Abebe (Amharic: ረድኤት አበበ) 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. Previously, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.[1]

Abebe's research develops mathematical and computational frameworks for examining questions related to inequality and distributive justice.[2] She co-founded the multi-institutional interdisciplinary research initiatives Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) and Black in AI.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Current and Former Junior Fellows". Harvard Society of Fellows. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  2. ^ "Meet the Innovators Under 35". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  3. ^ "Black in AI". blackinai.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  4. ^ "Mechanism Design for Social Good". md4sg.com. Retrieved 2019-10-09.