Helping Others Through Computers
Chancellor's Science Scholar Ayana Monroe is aiding people through technology.
Chancellor's Science Scholar Ayana Monroe is aiding people through technology.
Aiding people through technology. That idea is what fuels Ayana Monroe’s passion for conducting research in human-computer interaction. The double major in computer science and information science discovered that passion through internships at John Hopkins University, the National Security Agency, Onyx Point, and AstraZeneca.
As a Chancellor’s Science Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, Ayana has engaged in different kinds of work, such as building a news authentication tool through the Humans and Technology Lab at Clemson University and writing a research paper on human-computer interaction.
Her experience in research has reaffirmed her ultimate goal of becoming a professor, a goal she said she’s had since middle school.
“I’ve done a lot of volunteering and always liked teaching young people about computer science, and so I’d like to become a professor. That’s something I’ve known since middle school. It always seemed like a grand profession — to teach people everywhere. To teach people who will go on to teach people.”
