I worked for the University of Edinburgh for many years, and am still an Informatics visitor, but now work for the University of St Andrews.

I am a very experienced interdisciplinary researcher and research project manager with broad interests in community resilience. My current post is in cybersecurity, but I have a very active side interest in sustainability for community buildings via HeatHack, my public engagement initiative. My previous research was in group communication and the language and multimodal technologies to support it.

• HeatHack

I am sometimes mistaken for Joan Carletta - if you're interested in VLSI or fast signal processing,try her.

• Joan Carletta - University of Akron

Current post

I am currently funded by the Scottish Goverment Cyber Resilience Unit to work at the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews to help higher education further Scotland's cyber resilience aims. I work with Scottish higher education institutions to make Scotland more cyber resilient, with stronger cyber security research and innovation. This is a very wide remit and what I do from day to day varies tremendously. For example:

• finding flexible workers, and providing research expertise and project management for research that fills policy needs, drawing in relevant academics as needed
• translating academic work for non-academic stakeholders
• developing and working towards strategies for ensuring all of Scotland's students get the cyber resilience education they need to become good employees
• working with many stakeholders to improve the pipeline of cyber security skills and ensure Scotland's educational offering is clear to prospective students
• advising researchers on their personal research strategies and helping form new collaborations with industry

If you need assistance with anything that you think may fit my remit, I am always happy to talk about what you would like to achieve. I have a close relationship with the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, a higher education research pool that covers computer science and cyber security educators and researchers, but work with academics from many disciplines, as well as many other stakeholders.

• Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance

Awards

• 2021 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award - sole authorship
• ACM MLMI 2015 "Ten Year Technical Impact" award - lead authorship

Past projects

I worked for the University of Edinburgh for many years in research and research project management roles. Mostly this was in the School of Informatics and its predecessors, with a little work for the School of Engineering.

Some past projects:

ITEE - research strategy for a proposed collaboration between the Estonian and University of Edinburgh computer science communities

ROCKIT/CITIA - a European support action to link research and innovation for Conversational Interaction Technology

InEvent - new ways of browsing and searching archives of recorded meetings and lectures

Ambient Spotlight - meeting capture and summarisation with linked relevant material from a document repository

AMI/AMIDA - data processing for meetings and other multi-party human communication

Health Care Team Effectiveness - analysing team communication and especially the openness to influence from lower status positions

Data and the Future City - creative writing for engineers and computer scientists to help them think about the wider implications of their work