Rediet Abebe

I am a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. My research examines the interaction of algorithms and inequality, with a focus on contributing to the scientific foundations of this area. I am serving on the executive committee for the ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (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 and Master’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and from Harvard University. 


Current Research Group

Doctoral Students: Eve Fleisig, Angela Jin, Ali Shirali, Ramon Vilarino

Postdoctoral Fellow: George Obaido 

Graduate Researchers:  Meareg Hailemariam (masters student), Tainá Turella C. dos Santos (visiting scholar)

Selected Recent Papers

All Publications

Theses

Selected Upcoming / Recent Talks 

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? 

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