Rediet Abebe, Ph.D.

Abebe is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Abebe’s research examines the interaction of algorithms and inequality, with a focus on contributing to the scientific foundations of this emerging research area. Abebe co-launched the ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), for which she serves on the executive committee and was a program co-chair for the inaugural conference. Abebe’s work has received recognitions, including the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35, the Bloomberg 50 as a one-to-watch, the ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award. Abebe is on leave as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and master’s degrees in mathematics from both the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.