Georgia Institute of Technology (BS) Jesus College, Oxford (MS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Known for
Algorithmic Justice League
Scientific career
Fields
Media Arts & Sciences Computer science Algorithmic bias
Institutions
MIT Media Lab
Theses
Gender shades : intersectional phenotypic and demographic evaluation of face datasets and gender classifiers (2017)
Facing the Coded Gaze with Evocative Audits and Algorithmic Audits(2022)
Doctoral advisor
Ethan Zuckerman[1]
Buolamwini's voice
recorded July 2018
Website
www.poetofcode.com
Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Canadian-American computer scientist and digital activist formerly based at the MIT Media Lab.[2] She founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), an organization that works to challenge bias in decision-making software, using art, advocacy, and research to highlight the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence (AI).[3]
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Sundance Film Festival. The film includes contributions from researchers JoyBuolamwini, Deborah Raji, Meredith Broussard, Cathy O’Neil, Zeynep Tufekci, Safiya...
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2016 by computer scientist JoyBuolamwini, the AJL uses research, artwork, and policy advocacy to increase societal...
accountability, and algorithmic auditing. Raji has previously worked with JoyBuolamwini, Timnit Gebru, and the Algorithmic Justice League on researching gender...
information from lawfully acquired media. In 2018, MIT researchers JoyBuolamwini and Timnit Gebru published a study called Gender Shades. In this study...
Yoshua Bengio, Cynthia Breazeal, Rana el Kaliouby, Demis Hassabis, JoyBuolamwini, and Sam Altman have expressed concerns about the risks of AI. In 2023...
Journalism Review, Fall 2019. Media Cloud, co-developed by Zuckerman Buolamwini, Joy Adowaa (2017). Gender shades : intersectional phenotypic and demographic...
recognition technology works less accurately on people of color. One study by JoyBuolamwini (MIT Media Lab) and Timnit Gebru (Microsoft Research) found that the...
has not been representative of the population,. In 2018, a study by JoyBuolamwini and Timnit Gebru demonstrated that two facial analysis datasets that...
broader Massachusetts Institute of Technology project led by co-author JoyBuolamwini. The pair investigated facial recognition software, finding that in...
groundbreaking and award-winning work of prominent black women AI researchers JoyBuolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, and Inioluwa Deborah Raji". The segment was called...
inequalities along race, class, gender, and sexuality lines. In 2016, JoyBuolamwini founded Algorithmic Justice League after a personal experience with...
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adviser on global youth issues and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist JoyBuolamwini Georgia Institute of Technology Jesus 2013 United States Founder of...
Name Class year Notability References JoyBuolamwini 2012 2013 Rhodes Scholar, 2012 Fulbright Fellow (Zambia) David Eger 2003 2003 Fulbright Scholar (Hungary)...
that search algorithms are racist and perpetuate societal problems. - JoyBuolamwini publishes Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial...
follows researchers and advocates, principally MIT computer scientist JoyBuolamwini, as they explore how algorithms encode and propagate bias. Kantayya...
DVF Leadership Award: Helena Gualinga The DVF Leadership Award: Dr. JoyBuolamwini The DVF Leadership Award: Lilly Singh The following are the honorees...
was being increasingly used in society, and was aware of the work of JoyBuolamwini and Timnit Gebru on facial recognition. Koenecke started to perform...
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