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 a research engineer and founder with 13 years of experience at the intersection of AI, ethics, and policy, currently leading the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) from Palo Alto. She co-led Google's Ethical AI team and co-founded Black in AI, combining top-tier technical credentials (PhD from Stanford) with sustained advocacy for underrepresented groups in machine learning. Known for pushing boundaries, she was ousted from Google after raising ethical concerns about large language models and workplace discrimination, an episode that helped catalyze broader industry conversation about accountability. Her work spans deep technical research, nonprofit leadership, and public-facing writing—she is authoring a memoir-manifesto arguing for technology that serves communities rather than surveillance or centralized power. Timnit’s profile blends rigorous academic training, hands-on engineering across industry and open-source projects, and a clear commitment to shaping AI governance and inclusion.
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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amazon-emr6
amazon-s36
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pytorch1
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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