Sara Hooker

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Sara Hooker
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Sara Hooker is a computer scientist who works in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). [1] [2] She is known for her work on model efficiency at scale, large language models and areas of research on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning. [3] [4] [5] As VP of Research at Cohere, she launched the Cohere For AI scholars program.[ citation needed ] In 2023, she was listed as one of AI's top 13 innovators by Fortune. [6] In 2024, she was in TIME's 2024 list of the most influential people in AI. [7]

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Sara Hooker is on Kaggle's ML Advisory Research Board and the World Economic Forum council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence. [8] She is also a member of the MLC research group.[ citation needed ]

Early life and Education

Sara Hooker was born in Dublin, Ireland. At four years old, her parents moved to Lesotho. She grew up in South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini and Kenya until she was 19. [9] [ better source needed ]

Hooker is a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, a title she got from the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute,[ citation needed ] has a bachelor's from Carleton College with a dual major in Economics and International Relations, and an Economics degree from the Fundação Getulio Vargas. She also has an International Baccalaureate in IB Diploma from the Waterford Kamhlaba United World College.[ citation needed ]

Career

In 2014, she founded Delta Analytics, which develops technical capacity for non-profits. [10]

In 2017, Sara Hooker joined Google Brain as a research scientist who worked on interpretability and efficiency at scale. She was part of the original research team involved in founding Google's Ghana engineering office. [11] [12]

In April 2022, Sara joined start-up Cohere to lead Cohere For AI. [13] [14] The lab has since released projects, such as Aya, which aim to increase multilingual coverage. [15] Sara also launched a grant program to aim to bridge the resource gap. [16] [ failed verification ]

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