23 Facts About Rediet Abebe

Rediet Abebe is an Ethiopian computer scientist working in algorithms and artificial intelligence.

Rediet Abebe is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rediet Abebe co-founded the multi-institutional interdisciplinary research initiatives Mechanism Design for Social Good and Black in AI.

Rediet Abebe was born in 1991 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and grew up in the same city.

Rediet Abebe was educated in the Ethiopian National Curriculum at Nazareth School before winning a competitive merit-based scholarship to attend the International Community School of Addis Ababa for high school.

Rediet Abebe attended Harvard University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and later a Master of Science degree in applied mathematics.

Rediet Abebe completed Part III of the Mathematics Tripos and earned a Master of Advanced Studies in pure mathematics under the supervision of Imre Leader.

Rediet Abebe completed her doctoral degree in computer science at Cornell University, where she was advised by Jon Kleinberg.

Rediet Abebe's dissertation made notable contributions across multiple fields in computer science, receiving the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award.

Rediet Abebe is the first Black woman to complete a Ph.

Rediet Abebe's research develops techniques in AI and algorithms, with a focus on inequality and distributive justice.

Rediet Abebe's work includes algorithmic frameworks for examining issues in underserved populations.

In 2019, Rediet Abebe was inducted into the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Rediet Abebe is the second Junior Fellow with a CS Ph.

Rediet Abebe joined the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor, focused in the research areas of artificial intelligence; information, data, network, and communication sciences; and theory.

Rediet Abebe is the first Black female professor in the history of the department and the second in the history of the college of engineering.

Rediet Abebe is a member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab ; the Berkeley Institute for Data Science ; the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society - The Banatao Institute ; and the Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics, and Microeconomics at Berkeley.

Rediet Abebe leads the Berkeley Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization research group.

Rediet Abebe co-founded Mechanism Design for Social Good, a multi-disciplinary research collective that uses algorithms and mechanism design to tackle inequality, with Kira Goldner in 2016, alongside a multi-institutional reading group of 12 members.

Rediet Abebe has since been co-organizing the initiative with Irene Lo and Ana-Andrea Stoica.

Rediet Abebe was honored as a pioneer in the 2019 MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 in part for her work co-founding MD4SG.

Rediet Abebe's dissertation received the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award for offering foundations of this emerging research area.

Rediet Abebe co-founded Black in AI, a network of 1,500 researchers working on AI, with Timnit Gebru, in 2016.