Ayanna Howard is an American roboticist and the School Chair for Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a little girl Howard was interested in robots, and her favorite TV show was The Bionic Woman. Howard received her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Ayanna is now one of America’s top robot scientists and she is currently a robotics professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. One of her biggest career moments to date involved designing SnoMote robots designed to study the impacts of global warming on Antarctic ice shelves.

To learn more, visit: https://phys.org/news/2008-05-robots-scientists.html.

Check out this video that MAKERS made about her.