She's an Eritrean computer scientist and helped Google's Ethical Artificial Intelligence team.
Recently, she had been fired over an email chastising the way the company treats employees of colour and women, as well as conflict over a research paper she says was censored by the tech giant.
Gebru said she had been fired after sending an internal email that accused Google of "Silencing marginalized voices". Additionally, countless coworkers have signed a letter accusing the search giant of racism and censorship.
On Twitter, Gebru wrote "We know that these businesses aren't best for Black women," and in an open letter published on Medium.com several Google employees have criticized"unprecedented study censorship."
We call on Google Research to strengthen its commitment to research ethics and also to unequivocally commit to supporting research that contrasts the commitments made in Google's AI Principles."
"Until December 2, 2020,'' Dr. Gebru was one of very few Black girls Research Scientists at the business, which boasts a dismal 1.6% Black employees overall. Her research achievements are extensive and have profoundly influenced academic student and public policy. Dr. Gebru is a pathbreaking scientist doing a number of the most crucial work to ensure just and accountable AI and to create a welcoming and diverse AI research field."
Know About Timnit Gebru
She attended Stanford University and graduated with a BS, Electrical Engineering and then earned a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
In 2015, she graduated from the same university with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. After graduating she began her career as an Audio Hardware Intern at Apple and served there between June 2004 to September 2004.
At Apple, Gebru worked on projects that were related to the audio quality of Apple's computers. Later, she had been encouraged as Audio Systems Engineer and then became Audio Software & Hardware Engineer and served there untill August 2011.
Back in September 2011, she co-founded MotionThink in which it uses a design thinking framework under the construction of Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors runway application to identify deep requirements from the small business area and develop solutions.
By June 2012 to August 2012, Timnit was a student at Hacker School and worked on a variety of open source projects in Objective C, python, C++, Ruby on Rails, and Javascript to become a better programmer.
Since January 2010, she's a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering. On Linkedin, she describer herself as "I'm an entrepreneur who loves to operate independently and always improve my technical skills. I have more than 6 decades of experience at Apple designing algorithms, analog, and digital circuits, and working on DSP associated jobs. I also have software experience through shooting AI, machine learning, and computer vision courses at Stanford as well as working on various personal projects."
Family
How outdated is Timnit Gebru? She had been born in 1985 and out of California, USA, she is 35 years old as of 2020.
Talking about her family there's not much information about her father, mother, and sisters.