Is a research associate at the Human-Robot Interaction Lab at Tufts University and Programs team co-lead for AI and Faith. His work focuses on the ethical evaluation and design of AI systems for interactive contexts, and his articles in AI ethics have tackled topics like robot touch, value alignment, and computational representations of norms. Thomas was the co-organizer of AI100’s “Coding Caring” workshop and is the co-author of “Ethics for Psychologists: A Casebook Approach” (Sage, 2011). He has taught at Tufts, Harvard, Stonehill, and Tsinghua University, with ethics courses in both religious studies and computer science departments. He is completing a doctoral dissertation in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University.