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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Ayanna Howard is the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and served as Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned a B.S. in Engineering from Brown University in 1993, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an M.B.A. from the Claremont Graduate University Drucker School of Management. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2005 as an associate professor, Howard worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1993 to 2005, advancing from robotics researcher to senior researcher and deputy manager in the Office of the Chief Scientist. At Georgia Tech, she founded and directed the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Lab, served as associate director of research for the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, chaired the multidisciplinary Robotics Ph.D. program, and led a $3M traineeship in healthcare robotics along with an NSF undergraduate summer research program in robotics. In 2013, she co-founded Zyrobotics, a Georgia Tech spin-off company where she serves as Chief Technology Officer, developing mobile therapy and educational products for children with special needs based on her research.