Joy Buolamwini

Joy Buolamwini was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1989. She is currently still alive - at the age of 34 years old.

Buolamwini attended the University Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a PhD candidate and researcher in the Media Lab. She has a bachelor's degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Joy Buolamwini has also won many academic awards, some including the Rhodes Scholarship and the Fulbright Scholarship, as well as being added to many lists such as Tech Review 35 under 35, BBC 100 Women, and Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech.

In simple terms, Buolamwini's work was in the field of AI. She noticed that there was discrimination in the software as it was harder for the technology to recognize people of color. So, using her excellent skills in computer algorithms, she developed methods to change this. Adding more diversity in the training sets changed the technology. This in turn made a huge impact in computer science as facial detection was becoming more inclusive and the field would be able to move from racial and gender biases.

Joy Buolamwini also had several minor contributions, some of which include her TED Talk, "How I'm Fighting Bias in Algorithms", founding the Algorithim Justice League, uncovering biases from companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon, and her spoken word visual audit, "AI, Ain't I a Woman?"

The most interesting thing I found was that Buolamwini presented her research to the United Nations, which is pretty cool.