Rediet Abebe
I am a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Andrew Carnegie Fellow. My research examines the interaction of algorithms and inequality, with a focus on contributing to the mathematical and computational foundations of this area. I am serving on the executive committee for ACM EAAMO and was a program co-chair for the inaugural conference. I am on leave as an assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. I hold a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University, master's degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University and in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos from the University of Cambridge, and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
Current Research Group
Doctoral Students: Eve Fleisig, Angela Jin, Ali Shirali
Postdoctoral Fellow: George Obaido
Graduate Researchers: Meareg Hailemariam (masters student), Tainá Turella C. dos Santos (visiting scholar)
Papers & Selected Activities
Publications: arXiv, Google Scholar, SSRN
Evidentiary Statistical Software: Project Page; Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2022 - 2024)
Past Advisory Roles: AAAS Advisory Committee on AI & the Judiciary (2021 - 2022); Administrative Conference of the United States (2021 - 2022); NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on AI (2019)
Past Academic Service: MD4SG, Co-Founder and Co-Organizer (2016 - 2022); Black in AI, Co-Founder & Board of Directors (2017 - 2022)
Selected Recent Talks
2023 National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) Cardozo Law National Forensic College
Algorithms on Trial: Interrogating Evidentiary Statistical Software
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS '22). Keynote
Algorithms on the Bench: Examining Validity of ML Systems in the Public Sphere
Simons Foundation Presidential Lecture
Algorithms on the Bench: Examining Validity of ML Systems in the Public Sphere
BayLearn Machine Learning Symposium. Keynote
Algorithms on the Bench: Examining Validity of ML Systems in the Public Sphere
The International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 '22). Keynote
Algorithms on Trial: Interrogating Evidentiary Statistical Software
Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '22). Invited Tutorial
Algorithms on Trial: Interrogating Evidentiary Statistical Software
Canadian Mathematical Society, Winter 2022 Meeting. Plenary Lecture
What Can Algorithms Tell Us About Inequality?