Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. Duke University.
University of Wisconsin–Madison. Duke University.
Currently, he is the interim director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Since 2006, he has served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science and Mississippi, and from Duke University with a Doctor of Philosophy, where he studied with Steven Vogel and Stephen Wainwright.
He was the Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow in Engineering Sciences at California Institute of Technology where he studied with Ted Wu until 1984.