Thomas Himmel

Thomas Hummel

Thomas Hummel is Eduaide.Ai’s Chief Product Officer—and a practicing middle school science teacher who refuses to leave the classroom behind.

With eight years of teaching experience, Thomas believes the only way to truly understand education is to live it. Every day. With real students. Real constraints. And real stakes.

For him, science is more than a subject—it’s a way of thinking. He’s passionate about helping students develop curiosity, skepticism, and problem-solving skills, and about showing them that experimentation and iteration are how progress actually happens.

Teaching is also personal. Thomas comes from three generations of educators, a legacy that has shaped his deep respect for the profession and its impact on society. That respect fuels his work at Eduaide.Ai, where he’s focused on building AI tools that support teachers—reducing burnout, encouraging experimentation, and keeping professional judgment firmly in human hands.

At heart, Thomas is still what he’s always been: a teacher trying to make things better.

What if every teacher had a superpower—not to replace them, but to help them thrive? In this episode of AmpED to 11, we turn up the volume on one of the most practical and pressing questions in the AI-in-education space: How can AI actually empower teachers—in real classrooms, under real pressure—to reclaim their time, elevate […]