Jack Thomas

(he/him/his)

Assistant Teaching Professor

  • Robotics
  • 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

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.

  • Robust sensor fusion for finding HRI partners in a crowd

    Citation: S. Pourmehr, J. Thomas, J. Bruce, J. Wawerla and R. Vaughan, "Robust sensor fusion for finding HRI partners in a crowd," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017, pp. 3272-3278, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989373.

  • What untrained people do when asked “make the robot come to you”

    Citation: S. Pourmehr, J. Thomas and R. Vaughan, "What untrained people do when asked “make the robot come to you”," 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016, pp. 495-496, DOI: 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451823.