Ayanna Howard

Accomplished roboticist, entrepreneur and educator Dr. Ayanna Howard is dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering. Previously she was chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing, as well as founder and director of the Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS). Hailed by MIT Technology Review as a top young innovator and recognized as one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider, she is the founder & CTO of Zyrobotics and former Senior Robotics Researcher and Deputy Manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.