Ayorkor Korsah

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Ayorkor Korsah
NationalityGhanaian
EducationBA, Dartmouth College
BE, MS, Thayer School of Engineering
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University[1]
Occupation(s)Computer engineer and Lecturer

G. Ayorkor Korsah (formerly G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey) is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Robotics at Ashesi University in Ghana.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Korsah grew up in Ghana and Nigeria, and as a child, she wanted to be an astronaut and an engineer.[3][4]

Korsah majored in engineering at Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude in June 2003. She attended Carnegie Mellon University for her doctoral work in computer science,[1] obtaining a PhD in 2011 for her thesis, "Exploring bounded optimal coordination for heterogeneous teams with cross-schedule dependencies".[5]

Career[edit]

Korsah is a senior lecturer in computer science and robotics at Ashesi University, a private university in Ghana, where she teaches courses in artificial intelligence, robotics, algorithms, and programming. [6]

To expand robotics education in Africa, Korsah co-founded the African Robotics Network (AFRON) in 2012 with Ken Goldberg, a robotics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[7] The purpose of AFRON is to enhance robotics education and encourage members of robotics communities in Africa to collaborate.[3] One of AFRON's first endeavors was a $10 robot design challenge which it co-sponsored with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.[8] Korsah and Goldberg were awarded the 2013 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award for their work in founding the network and the "$10 Robot Design” challenge.[9][10]

Korsah has been featured on BBC News discussing how humans and machines can collaborate and combine their strengths in the future.[11]

Selected publications[edit]

  • G. Ayorkor Korsah, Anthony Stentz, and M. Bernardine Dias, “A comprehensive taxonomy for multi-robot task allocation”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, October 2013, vol. 32, no.12, pp. 1495-1512.
  • G. Ayorkor Korsah, Balajee Kannan, Brett Browning, Anthony Stentz and M. Bernardine Dias, “xBots: An Approach to Generating and Executing Optimal Multi-Robot Plans with Cross-Schedule Dependencies,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012.
  • G. Ayorkor Korsah, Jack Mostow, M. Bernardine Dias, Tracy Morrison Sweet, Sarah M. Belousov, M. Frederick Dias, Haijun Gong, “Improving Child Literacy in Africa: Experiments with an Automated Reading Tutor,” Information Technologies & International Development, 2010, vol. 6, no. 2, 2010.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae: G. Ayorkor Korsah (G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey)" (PDF). Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ^ ""G. Ayorkor Korsah"". Ashesi University. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b "African Project Aims To Innovate in Educational Robotics - IEEE Spectrum". spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Computer Scientists Are The Magicians Of Tomorrow – Dr. Ayorkor Korsah – Developers in Vogue". Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  5. ^ Korsah, G. Ayorkor (January 2011). "Exploring bounded optimal coordination for heterogeneous teams with cross-schedule dependencies". The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Ashesi University". www.ashesi.edu.gh. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  7. ^ Court, Alex (19 January 2015). "Young minds, bright future: Robotics revolution hits Ugandan classrooms | CNN Business". CNN. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  8. ^ Hurst, Nathan. "These $10 Robots Will Change Robotics Education". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  9. ^ "The African Robotics Network". Disruptor Awards. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Computer Scientists Are The Magicians Of Tomorrow – Dr. Ayorkor Korsah". Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  11. ^ "The Real Story - Will Your Children Have A Job? - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
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