Research Projects
EPSRC Prosperity Partnership: working on human-machine teaming with SeeByte Ltd (September 2021-August 2024). ORCA (Work Package 3 lead): Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub. working on 'Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction with Explainable AI' (October 2017-March 2021).
RobotCafe (Principal Investigator): Funded by an EPSRC IAA grant, this project is building a social robotics platform based around a cafe environment where the robot can take your coffee order and interact with the customer. (March 2020-March 2021)
VERSO (Principal Investigator): Funded by SeeByte, MASTS and Datalab: a PhD placement looking at data-driven techniques for interaction with autonomous vehicles (October 2017-March 2021). INCA (Principal Investigator): Intelligent iNteraCtion for Autonomy (INCA) is funded by the Leverhulme Trust Fellowship scheme (August 2017-July 2018). MIRIAM (Principal Investigator): Multimodal Intelligent inteRactIon for Autonomous systeMs (MIRIAM) funded by Dstl under the Defence and Security Accelerator under the theme revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence with industry partners SeeByte and Tekever (June-November 2017).
REGIME Phase 2 (Principal Investigator): REGIME (REport GeneratIon from Meta-data) funded by Dstl under the ASUR programme (Phase 2) with SeeByte and Thales (Nov 2015-Oct 2016).
Emote (Work Package lead): EU FP7 EMOTE
project to design, develop and evaluate a new
generation of artificial embodied tutors that have
perceptive capabilities to engage in empathic
interactions with learners in a shared physical
space. (2012-2015)
PARLANCE (Coordinator): FP7 funded project PARLANCE
on search through adaptive, personalised incremental interaction
(2011-2014) with team: Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Arash Eshghi, Simon Keizer, Xingkun
Liu, Yanchao Yu, Sandra Birch and advisors Oliver Lemon and
Verena Rieser.
REGIME Phase 1 (Principal Investigator): REGIME
Phase 1 (REport GeneratIon from Meta-data), DSTL funded project as part of
the ASUR programme
on report generation (2014) with Dr. Zhuoran Wang.
CLASSiC (Research Fellow): The EU FP7 project
CLASSiC
on statistical end-to-end spoken dialogue
systems. (2008-2011)
mySneeze (Principal
Investigator):
The mySneeze
project, a multidisciplinary project with three other Scottish Universities,
leading design, development and evaluation of the mySneeze mobile application
for hay fever monitoring (2011-2014).
DUDE (Research Fellow): Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept project (2007-2008).