About

Howell stands leaning her elbows on a railing. She is smiling, wearing a gray button down shirt, with glasses.

Howell is an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

From 2021-2025, Howell directed the Future Feelings Lab as an assistant professor at Georgia Tech. This research has been funded by an NSF CAREER award, a Google TensorFlow Faculty Award, and a Ralph E. Powe Faculty Enhancement Award, among other sources. As of 2026, some projects are still continuing.

Howell completed her PhD at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a member of the BioSENSE lab. Previously she worked as a human centered designer and engineer in Singapore, Morocco, and China, as well as at the MIT Media Lab, Intel Labs, Microsoft, and The Echo Nest.