Habesha in Tech
Habesha in Tech
My Tech Journey with Abeba Birhane (PhD)
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My Tech Journey with Abeba Birhane (PhD)

Our guest is Abeba Birhane (PhD), a cognitive science PhD researcher at the Complex Software Lab in the school of computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland. She hails from the beautiful city of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. She was a brilliant student. You may not guess how she earned her first salary, by being a DJ. She is now living in Ireland. Abeba completed her PhD in Cognitive Science from Complex Software Lab in the school of computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland. Congrats to her.  Abeba is fearless to challenge the status quo whenever she sees injustice and inaccurate representations. One of the researches Abeba co-wrote was a reason for MIT to takedown the 80 million datasets that has racist and offensive content. She also don't support Robots to be given rights because that only is going to give more rights to the Robots manufacturers.  Thank you Abeba for sharing us your Tech Journey.  Have a listen and share this with your friends.

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