Bio
Dr. Abeba Birhane founded and leads the Trinity College Dublin AI Accountability Lab (AIAL). She received her PhD from University College Dublin in 2022 and is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on AI accountability, with a particular emphasis on audits of AI models and training datasets—a field of work for which she was featured in Wired UK and TIME on the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI list in 2023. Dr. Birhane also served on the United Nations Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body and currently serves on the AI Advisory Council in Ireland.