Timnit Gebru
Founder Executive Director at The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolTimnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute and a prominent researcher-activist with 13+ years of experience bridging industry and academia. She co-led Google’s Ethical AI team until a high-profile 2020 departure over a paper on large language model harms, co-founded Black in AI to boost Black representation in machine learning, and serves on the board of AddisCoder. Trained as an electrical engineer with doctoral work at Stanford, her technical roots include audio systems and delta-sigma modulators at Apple, optical coherence tomography research, and open-source contributions, giving her a rare span from hardware and signal processing to algorithmic fairness. Named among Nature’s Ten and TIME 100, she now channels research, advocacy, and community-driven organizing through DAIR and is writing The View from Somewhere, a memoir-manifesto about building technology that serves communities rather than surveillance or centralized power.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Tigrinya, Amharic, Chinese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cs231n/cs231n.github.io
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Public facing notes page
Contributions:229 commits, 3 PRs, 226 pushes in 2 months
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tgebru/v81
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
FAT* 2018 Proceedings
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
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