Successful Black Women: Ayanna Howard

She’s pushing innovation in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics, for applications that span from melting ice in Antarctica to missions to Mars. After spending 12 years at NASA as a senior robotics researcher, she’s now the chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She also founded Zyrobotics L.L.C., where she’s the chief technology officer, to develop personalized educational technologies that address the needs of children with differing abilities. -

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