Jack Thomas
(he/him/his)
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests
- Robotics
Education
- PhD in Computing Science, Simon Fraser University — Canada
- MMath in Computer Science, University of Waterloo — Canada
- BCS in Computer Science, University of New Brunswick — Canada
- BA in Philosophy, University of New Brunswick — Canada
Biography
Jack Thomas is an assistant teaching professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. His area of teaching includes robotics, social implications of computing, databases, data structures, algorithms and software engineering.
Prior to joining Northeastern in 2022, he worked as a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University and a data analyst at the New Brunswick Department of the Environment. Thomas has been published in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and the 2018 and 2019 EEE/RSJ International Conferences on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Outside of teaching, he is an avid Dungeons and Dragons player, loves listening to podcasts, and created a game that's now free on Steam called the Throne of Bernicia.
Recent publications
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Autonomy, social agency, and the integration of human and robot environments
Citation: Thomas, Jack. "Autonomy, social agency, and the integration of human and robot environments". Diss. Applied Sciences: School of Computing Science, 2019. -
Right of Way, Assertiveness and Social Recognition in Human-Robot Doorway Interaction
Citation: J. Thomas and R. Vaughan, "Right of Way, Assertiveness and Social Recognition in Human-Robot Doorway Interaction," 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019, pp. 333-339, DOI: 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967862. -
After You: Doorway Negotiation for Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Interaction
Citation: J. Thomas and R. Vaughan, "After You: Doorway Negotiation for Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Interaction," 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, pp. 3387-3394, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594034.