Dr Tommy Thompson is the director of AI and Games Ltd.: a company dedicated to providing consultancy and bespoke software solutions for artificial intelligence technologies in the video games industry.  All in an effort to help studios to refine the designs, tools and architecture required to elevate AI within their games.  The company is largely known for it's crowdfunded YouTube series of the same name that explores research and applications of artificial intelligence in video games.

Tommy is a part-time senior lecturer in computer science and researcher in artificial intelligence applications in video games and has authored over 30 academic publications in areas such as artificial general intelligence, machine learning for non-player characters and procedural content generation.  Tommy has been an active participant in the academic community for over 10 years as reviewer and chair for numerous conferences and workshops.

Tommy also develops his own game projects at indie company Table Flip Games, through which he has published his first title Sure Footing on PC, with console ports coming in 2019.

You can follow Tommy, the AI and Games series and Table Flip Games over on twitter.