Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Developing natural voice assistants with Generative AI, NLP, Computer Vision, & Linked Data.
Latest Journal paper: Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare (see all papers)
Latest Conference paper: Multi-party Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic at EACL (see all papers)
Latest article: Repairing Interrupted Questions Makes Voice Assistants More Accessible in Amazon Science (see all articles)
A video for our paper titled: "A Multi-party Conversational Social Robot Using LLMs" at HRI 2024. I had the opportunity to integrate my PhD work into a robot in a real hospital memory clinic which conversed with visiting patients (see Projects).
2024:
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
2018: MSc with Distinction in AI with Speech and Multimodality
2016: BSc (Hons) in Mathematics
2024 - Present: Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI (Alexa)
Previously: Research Associate, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, and Data Analyst
Capable organiser e.g: Co-founded both the European and African Chatbot Summits. Organised SIGdial, YRRSDS, ICMI, SLiDInG, & special sessions on multi-party dialogue and LLMs
Experienced speaker at various locations e.g: Los Angeles, Montreal, Abu Dhabi, Stockholm, Boston (Harvard), Leipzig, Riga, Ljubljana, Eindhoven, Prague, Edinburgh, and many more...