Ayanna Howard

Educator, Researcher, and Innovator in the Fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence,

Ayanna Howard—an engineer by training, and chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology—began developing robots while working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Howard, who founded the EdTech company Zyrobotics, specializes in specific applications of the technology, including use in pediatric and general healthcare, and education; as robots become more commonplace in daily life, the answer to the question of how we control them will be to make them more human, more like us. She is also an expert on how human biases, including racial and gender discrimination, can be unwittingly programmed into robots and AI. Dr. Howard offers crucial insight to business leaders seeking novel growth strategies through robotics and AI, as well as those who finance the most cutting-edge technological breakthroughs of the 21st century.