About Me
I am a Professor of Human-Robot Interaction at the University of Edinburgh and Head of School for the School of Informatics. I am affiliated with the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
Previously, I was Professor in the Computer Science department
in the School of MACS
(Mathematical and Computer Sciences) at
Heriot Watt
University,
where I was Director of the
Centre for
Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
(CDT-RAS)
and Academic Co-Lead for the
National
Robotarium.
Previous projects where I was PI include the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous
Systems Programme
Node in
Trust
and the EPSRC HUME Prosperity Partnership.
My research interests include human-robot interaction and natural language
interfaces, in particular aspects of trust,
transparency, situation awareness and cognitive load.
In 2022, I was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and am a founding member of the
Royal
Society of Edinburgh, Young Academy.
In 2017, I received a Senior Research Fellowship from the Royal Society
of Engineering/Leverhulme.
Previously, I have worked in both academia and industry including Informatics at the
University
of Edinburgh,
The Advanced Technology Lab at Lockheed Martin, NJ, USA and AT&T Research Labs, NJ, USA.
I hold a PhD from
Centre of Speech
Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh,
an MS from
Georgetown University and
an MA from the University of Edinburgh.
For current and previous research projects, see here.
Research Interests
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For full list of publications see
here.
- Trust and Transparency
- Intelligent Interaction for Autonomous Systems
- Multimodal, Spoken Dialogue and Mobile Systems
- Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Affective Computing and Human-Robot Interaction
- Natural Language Generation and Data to Text Generation
- Health Informatics
- Dialogue Act Recognition (PhD work)