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Andrea L. Thomaz is an Associate Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the Socially Intelligent Machines lab, which is affiliated with the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). She earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999, and Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 2002 and 2006. Dr. Thomaz has published in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Robot Interaction. She received an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2008 and an NSF CAREER Award in 2010. Her work with the social robots “Simon” and “Curi” has been featured in the New York Times and on NOVA Science Now. Also, she was named one of MIT Technology Review’s TR 35 in 2009 and on Popular Science Magazine’s Brilliant 10 list in 2012.