Question: Why did you want to take part in 'I'm a Scientist Get Me Out of Here'?

Huma Shah answered on 10 Nov 2016:

Hello Hans Hodges,

We need more young people coming through into artificial intelligence and robotics, including designing better social robots for human-robot interaction. I am a West London STEM Ambassador and regularly visit schools and colleges persuading young students to take science beyond school and to consider computer science as well.

I applied to take part in I’m a Scientist as another way to be able to interact and persuade school pupils that science is a broad field with many sub-areas, and to show that it would not be difficult to find one sub-topic of science you could get interested in. I also wanted to show that doing science is a varied and exciting job. It was also a great way to learn how much school pupils already knew about artificial intelligence – I’m really impressed with all the questions on robotics, you and others are quite knowledgeable already. Now I hope you’ll take this interest further and study computer science and specialise in AI and robotics at university.

Huma