Rediet Abebe

Rediet Abebe
Born1991 (age 3334)
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; born 1991) 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.

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