Andrea L. Thomaz is a senior research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and Director of Socially Intelligent Machines Lab.
In 1999, Thomaz earned her Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas.
[3] In 2016 Thomaz joined the University of Texas at Austin as a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Moxi is a robot that helps nurses via performing tasks such as getting drugs for patients, delivering lab samples etc.
[6] In October 2012 Thomaz was listed as Popular Science's Brilliant 10 for her work on Simon and the applications of building socially intuitive machines.