Dr. Ayesha Khanna is Using Technology as a Force for Good

Dr. Ayesha Khanna went to college determined to save the world. After having volunteered to promote human rights in Pakistan, particularly for women in rural villages and prisons, enrolling at Harvard University to study development economics seemed a natural step.

So how did a humanities graduate become one of South-east Asia's foremost experts on artificial intelligence?

"I met all these people who thought of STEM as extremely creative. They would talk about poetry and Borges and Dostoyevsky in one breath, and then about number theory and stochastic processes and C++ programming in the next."