Shortly after finishing her undergraduate studies at Brown, Ayanna Howard joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she led research efforts on various robotic projects utilizing soft computing methodologies such as computer vision, fuzzy logic, and neural networks.
Shortly after finishing her undergraduate studies at Brown, Ayanna Howard headed up the software team at Axcelis, coding the first commercial genetic algorithm package Evolver. Later she joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she led research efforts on various robotic projects utilizing soft computing methodologies such as computer vision, fuzzy logic, and neural networks.