Timnit Gebru - the first Black woman to be hired as a research scientist at Google in the United States—brainstormed a solution with fellow
history-maker Rediet Abebe, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in computer science from Cornell University and the first Black woman to become a
tenure-track professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Timnit W. Gebru (Amharic and Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining.[5] She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research.
Timnit Gebru
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