Welcome to my webpages!

Research

I am currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. I am also a member of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.

I am also an Honorary Fellow in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

• Information about me at Heriot-Watt.
• Information about me at Edinburgh. I also used to be a Research Fellow at Edinburgh in the Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation and the Human Communication Research Centre.
• My research overview page listing my research interests and projects,
• My publications page (Google Scholar | ORCID | Semantic Scholar | dblp),
• My talks and tutorials page,
• Some events I have organised,
• Some students I have supervised,
• My planning software page.

Projects

• I am the Principal Investigator on the EPSRC Start Making Sense project (Grant No. EP/R031045/1, 2018-2020).
• I am a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC ORCA Hub (Grant No. EP/R026173/1, 2017-2021).
• I was a Principal Investigator on the EU STAMINA project (Grant No. 610917, 2013-2017).
• I was the Scientific Coordinator and a Co-Investigator on the now completed EU JAMES project (Grant No. 270435, 2011-2014).

Personal

• The webpage of my wife, Mary Ellen Foster, now a Lecturer (in the UK sense) in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.
• The webpage of my brother, Mark, now a Lecturer (in the Canadian sense) in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Mark is usually selling some great gaming stuff. Check out his webpage or current eBay auctions for some good deals!

My webpage is constantly being updated and may soon be moving to a new site so please visit again soon!