Media

Talks, interviews, and press about De’Aira’s research, outreach, and path into robotics.

Featured Talk

“Paying It Forward with Social Robots,” TEDx Georgia Tech Student Speaker Salon, 2018.

Research Features

Georgia Tech research feature, July 2019.

University of South Carolina research feature, May 2017.

Podcasts

“Social Robots with De’Aira Bryant,” Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman, May 2021.

“Pink & Green Robot Queen,” Modern Figures Podcast, February 2020.

Television and Film

2021

United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, CNN, season 6 episode 2, “Black to the Future”

2020

The Nature of Things, CBC

2020

Programmed the NAO robot for the HBO Max film Superintelligence. Georgia Tech story

2019

Atlanta & Company, Tech Tuesday with Salt the robot, 11Alive

Press

2024

New Ph.D. Alumna Paving the Way for More Black Women in Robotics, Georgia Tech College of Computing

2022

Hampton County closes Black History Month with community event, Fox 28

2022

Banners Herald, 60th Anniversary of Black Student Matriculation, Georgia Tech

2021

How De’Aira Bryant found her path into robotics, Amazon Science

2020

Dream Jobs: Designing robots for kids, Newsela

2019

First ‘Minimally Adequate’ forum keeps conversation going on education reform in SC, The Post and Courier

On X

De'Aira Bryant, who has done two internships at Amazon under Nashlie Sephus, is a PhD student at @GeorgiaTech focusing on the application of robotics in health care and rehabilitation. Find out how she's reaching students from underrepresented backgrounds. https://t.co/2YXYiVjQQs
— Amazon Science (@AmazonScience) November 15, 2021

Computer Science Ph.D. student De’Aira Bryant (@DeeGotRobots) programmed a humanoid robot for the @HBOMax movie ‘Superintelligence’. 🐝 | https://t.co/XZun9DGiSw pic.twitter.com/AIfQL6JUQv
— Georgia Tech (@GeorgiaTech) January 19, 2021

#WCW: The closest thing to 🖥️ science @AlwaysAira took in HS was keyboarding. Then she taught a 🤖 how to dab. https://t.co/GfmpBN0T7x pic.twitter.com/DV2v93wlla
— University of South Carolina (@UofSC) May 3, 2017

Invited Talks

2026

“Human-Robot Social Interactions: Potential for Motivation, Learning, and Interventions.”

Learning & the Brain Conference · San Francisco, CA

2025

“Robots, Research, and Rising Together.”

VEX Robotics World Championship · Dallas, TX

2024

“Teaching a Robot Where to Park: A Scalable Crowdsourcing Approach.”

UT Austin–Amazon Science Hub Robotics Research Symposium · Austin, TX

2024

“Bias-Aware Algorithmic Design for Increased Perceptions of Fairness During HRI.”

Consumer Robotics Research Symposium, Amazon Lab126 · Sunnyvale, CA

2023

Three-Minute Thesis

Georgia Tech College of Computing Advisory Board Meeting · Atlanta, GA

2022

“Facial Expression Detection for Adaptive Social Robots.”

University of Michigan Robotics Seminar · Virtual

2022

“Designing Social Robots for Applications Involving Children.”

Cornell University Robotics Seminar · Virtual

2021

“Designing Emotionally Intelligent Social Robots.”

Wolfson College Science Society · Virtual

2020

“Social Robots and Artificial Emotional Intelligence.”

Colorado School of Mines Interactive Robotics Research Summer Speaker Series · Virtual

2019

“Designing Emotionally Intelligent Social Robots for Children.”

Capital One Humanity AI Conference · McLean, VA

2018

“Paying It Forward with Social Robots.”

TEDx Georgia Tech Student Speaker Salon · Atlanta, GA

Panels

2024

Career Panel

UT Austin–Amazon Science Hub Robotics Research Symposium · Austin, TX

2023

“Wired for Success: Robotics in K-12 Education.”

BDPA National Conference · Invited panelist

2021–2022

“What Is Grad School Really Like?”

AAAI Undergraduate Consortium Graduate Panel

2019

“Can AI Be Ethical?”

ACM SIGGRAPH Diversity and Inclusion Summit · Long Beach, CA

2019

“Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Way Forward.”

Silicon Flatirons · Boulder, CO