{"id":468,"date":"2024-08-14T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ccls\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2024-08-14T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T20:59:15","slug":"jesse-thomason","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ccls\/jesse-thomason\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--signup-form dark\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--signup-form\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Jesse Thomason, Ph.D.\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Assistant Professor of Computer Science<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>USC Viterbi School of Engineering<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science<\/em><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:jessetho@usc.edu\">jessetho@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jesse Thomason is an Assistant Professor at USC leading the GLAMOR (Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observations, And Robots) Lab. 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