Activities
Consultancy
PhD Supervision
Mayuko Morgan (DoS)
Zin Htun (2nd Supervisor)
Lewis Watson (3rd Supervisor) - https://lnwatson.co.uk/
Discussion / Research Groups
Apply to join my Discord channel The Human-Robot Interaction Group (THRIG) and discuss all things HRI related
Editorials
Guest Editor in Dialogue and Discourse, Special Edition in Embodied Conversational Systems for Human-Robot
Interaction.
Reviews
I regularly review papers for journals and conferences in AI and robotics, for a full list of verified reviews visit my Web of Science page.
Organisations and Memberships
IntelliSys 2026 Program Committee
HRI 2026 Program Committee
SIGDIAL 2025 Program Committee
IntelliSys 2025 Technical Program Committee
SIGDIAL 2024 Program Committee
SIGDIAL 2023 Program Committee
HRI 2023 Program Committee (Student Design & LBR tracks)
SIGDIAL 2022, Special Session Co-organiser
ICFIT 2022 - Technical Program Committee
NAACL 2022 Program Committee
INLG 2021 - Program Committee
Association for Computational Linguistics Membership
Main Exhibition Feature (PoweredbyAI) 2024
Keynotes
The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit 2026
Talk: Developing Multimodal Conversational AI for Social Robots
United Nations 'AI for Good' Global Summit 2025, Geneva, Switzerland.
Talk: Cost-effective and Sustainable Humanoid Robots for AI Education
Topic: Future Applications of Social Robots for Veteran Healthcare.
Lectures, Talks, Exhibitions and Workshops
Ada Scotland x School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment Inspirational Meetup
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025
New Scientist Live 2025: Humanoid Robot Exhibition
Build A Different Future Robotics Competition with First Step Robotics 2025
Coming Soon in 2025: Free AI and Robotics Workshop Series for Local BAME charities in Scotland.
Powered by AI Exhibition (2024)
Robot Talk Podcast (UKRI) Episode 60 - Dr Carl Strathearn
Special Session - Natural Language in Human-Robot Interaction: NLIiHRI (2022) ACL
SIGDIAL (2022) Dublin, DialDoc Workshop, 'Commonsense Enhanced Dialogue Generation'.
BBC Science Podcast (2021) Machine Learning for Robotics Lip Synchronisation.
ALIFE (2020) The Multimodal Turing Test, Workshop Lifelike Computing Systems Workshop.
BBC Radio (2019) Advances in Medical Robotics and AI
BBC Radio (2019) Discussion on Emotional AI Robotics
Staffordshire University, Advertisement for the AI and Robotics Course (2019)
Staffordshire University, Promotional Video for Digital Design and Computing Research (2019)
Staffordshire University, Fundamentals of Animation Theory in Animatronics (2019)
Staffordshire University, Practical and Computational Approaches To Interactive Robotic Character Design (2019)
Staffordshire University, Future of Artificial Intelligence in Social Robots, North China Industry Institute (2019)
Staffordshire University, CDT Research Seminar, Development of 3D Sculpted, Hyper-Realistic Biomimetic Eyes for Humanoid Robots (2018)
Huddersfield University, New Thoughts, and Concepts in Simulacra and Simulation (2016)
D&AD, Spitalfields, London, Actuality, and Artificiality (2014)
Awards
PhD Scholarship, Staffordshire University (2019)
SWARM, Japan, Best Paper Nomination (2018)
Masters Scholarship, Huddersfield University (2015)
Professor Sir Patrick Stewart Award for Academic Excellence, Huddersfield University (2014)
Professor Paul Wells Award, Huddersfield University (2014)