NVIDIAVoice: AI Innovators: How One Woman Followed Her Passion and Brought Diversity to AI

In this profile series, we interview AI innovators on the front-lines - those who have dedicated their life's work to improving the human condition through technology advancements. Born and raised in Ethiopia, Gebru immigrated to the US at 16 to earn her PhD from Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and just finished her year as a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in New York. While she was still a PhD student, she co-founded Black in AI, an organization fostering collaboration and discussing initiatives to increase the representation of Black people in the field. Was there a moment where you questioned your path? I mean, when I first did analog circuit design, I was very much into hardware and that was my main focus while at Apple.