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Roots of a Socio-Technical Career
Before information systems, there was Peace Corps Nepal, ESL curriculum design in Japan, and a degree in English literature — the unlikely path into a research career built on treating technology and people as one system.
Author: Dominic Thomas
When Social Media and Business Meet
At Emory's Goizueta Business School, my courses on virtual teams and social media pushed MBA students to bring emerging technology into real organizations — work that Goizueta Magazine covered in 2009.
Author: Dominic Thomas
Chasing Outbreaks: Building Global Disease Surveillance Networks
A $3 million Skoll Foundation grant sent me deep into the world of digital disease detection — building the technology behind global outbreak surveillance with Harvard's HealthMap, ProMED, and a worldwide network of field epidemiologists.
Author: Dominic Thomas
Teaching the Next Generation of Healthcare Technologists
When Phil King built a working healthcare dashboard as a class project at Kennesaw State, it became more than an assignment — it became a case study in what happens when applied, real-client learning meets healthcare IT.
Author: Dominic Thomas
Making Maritime Digitization Work
As a U.S. expert representative to ISO's maritime technology committee, I have spent the past several years helping break multi-year international logjams standing in the way of digitizing global shipping — work recognized with ISO TC8's Excellence Award.
Author: Dominic Thomas
Catching Crises Before They Escalate
In the Modular Agile Deployment Lab, my team is building AI that can read 911 police narratives and flag behavioral health crises upstream — before they end in a jail cell or an emergency room.
Author: Dominic Thomas
Bringing 3D Printing and AI Into the Classroom
From a state-recognized 3D printing initiative to hackathons drawing 200+ students a year, my teaching innovation work is built on one idea: students learn emerging technology best by building something real with it.
Author: Dominic Thomas