Rachel Thomas is an AI researcher and educator who co-founded fast.ai, the organization dedicated to making artificial intelligence more accessible. Rachel Thomas's Twitter Score is 39 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #23,794 (top 5%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Rachel Thomas co-founded fast.ai alongside Jeremy Howard, building it into a widely recognized resource for practical AI education. She currently works in R&D at Answer. AI, which was launched in December 2023 by Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries with investment support from Decibel VC. fast.ai joined Answer. AI in November 2024. Earlier in her career, Rachel Thomas previously served as founding director of the USF Center for Applied Data Ethics and formerly worked as an early engineer at Uber.
Rachel Thomas also works as a professor of practice at Queensland University of Technology, bringing her background in mathematics and data ethics into academic settings. She holds a mathematics PhD and a master's degree in immunology. Forbes selected her as one of 20 Incredible Women in AI. Rachel Thomas's account has published 10,267 posts and has been mentioned by 77 accounts a total of 271 times, reflecting consistent engagement across the AI research and education community. She has 92,798 followers as of September 2026 on the platform.
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