--Ayanna M. Howard, Ph.D., Educator, Researcher, and Innovator
Every other Tuesday, womenatliberty.com provides #LeadershipTuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage and strengthen women leaders. Dr. Ayanna Howard is an engineer and innovator whose accomplishments have been highlighted in TIME Magazine, Black Enterprise, and USA Today. As one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in the world in 2015 (Business Insider) and one of 2018's Top 50 U.S. Women in Tech (Forbes), she says through her quote today that you must be your best cheerleader and be proud of your accomplishments, even the ones that you consider insignificant. In a world that constantly marginalizes minorities and women, you have to learn to speak to and be proud of the qualities that make you special. You should also be aware and proud of how you utilize those qualities to add value to your work.
Currently, Dr. Howard is the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, better known as Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, GA. At Georgia Tech, she is on faculty in the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS) where they are studying how human-inspired techniques can be used to enhance the autonomous capabilities of intelligent systems.
Howard has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications and received support from various agencies including: National Science Foundation, Procter and Gamble, NASA, ExxonMobil, Intel, and the Grammy Foundation. Before entering academia, she worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory--California Institute of Technology, where she was a Senior Robotics Researcher and Deputy Manager in the Office of the Chief Scientist.
See Dr. Howard's TEDTalk below on "Making Robots Smarter". You'll gain tips on how you can talk about your accomplishments without sounding boastful and arrogant.
*2023 Update: In 2021, Dr. Ayanna Howard was named the Dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She is the first woman to lead the College of Engineering and one of only a few African American deans or directors in the U.S. She is also the college’s second Black dean. Dr. Howard earned her Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Brown University, her Master’s degree and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and her MBA from Claremont Graduate University.
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