Directory of experts
Informatics academic experts in various areas who can be contacted by the Press Office and the media.
Surname | First name | Email Address | Area of Expertise |
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Albrecht | Stefano | contact Stefano | Reinforcement learning, autonomous driving (self-driving cars), multi-robot systems, and autonomous systems in general |
Aspinall | David | david.aspinall@ed.ac.uk | Cyber Security, Software Safety and Security |
Bell | Peter | peter.bell@ed.ac.uk |
Speech technology, including automatic speech recognition, voice/speaker recognition, speech enhancement, conversational AI |
Bundy | Alan | a.bundy@ed.ac.uk | Artificial Intelligence (symbolic, not Machine Learning/Data Mining), Automated Reasoning, Automated Conceptual Change. |
Cohen | Shay | scohen@inf.ed.ac.uk | Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning. |
Fisher | Bob | rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk | Computer Vision, Image Processing, Video Analysis. |
Grot | Boris | boris.grot@ed.ac.uk | All aspects of computer architecture, including CPUs, Parallel Processing (many-core and many-node computers), Memory Systems and Interconnection Networks. |
Herrmann | J. Michael | michael.herrmann@ed.ac.uk | Self-organisation, Complex Adaptive Systems, Metaheuristic Optimisation, autonomous agents and Robotics. Also, servers and data centers; microservices and serverless computing |
Heunen | Chris | chris.heunen@ed.ac.uk | Quantum Computing. |
Lapata | Mirella | mlap@inf.ed.ac.uk | Natural Language Processing. |
Lascarides | Alex | alex@inf.ed.ac.uk | Computational Linguistics. |
Lopez | Adam | alopez@inf.ed.ac.uk | natural language processing |
Lucas | Chris | c.lucas@ed.ac.uk |
My research area is computational cognitive science. I work at the intersection of machine learning/AI and cognitive psychology. I use machine learning to understand the human mind and take lessons from psychology to develop better machine learning models and tools. |
Magdy | Walid | wmagdy@inf.ed.ac.uk | Social Media Analytics, stance and political bias prediction, Computational Social Science, Data Mining, information retrieval. |
Narayanaswamy | Siddharth (Sid) | n.siddharth@ed.ac.uk |
Explainable AI, Machine Learning for human-like perception, Neuro-Symbolic modelling and inference, Deep Generative Modelling, and Probabilistic Programming, Natural Language Processing (NLP) |
Nazarpour | Kia | kianoush.nazarpour@ed.ac.uk | Neuroprosthetics, neurorehabilitation |
McNeill | Fiona | f.j.mcneill@ed.ac.uk |
CS and STEM education in schools and universities; improving gender balance in CS and tech in schools, universities and industry; access to CS education for excluded groups, especially females and widening participation students; transitions into university for UG and MSc students; CS education policy in Scotland; outreach |
Patras | Paul | ppatras@inf.ed.ac.uk | All aspects of networked systems, particularly applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in mobile networks, traffic analytics, performance optimisation, security and privacy, prototyping and test beds. |
Ponti | Edoardo | eponti@ed.ac.uk | Natural Language Processing |
Ramamoorthy | Subramanian (Ram) | s.ramamoorthy@ed.ac.uk | Robotics, Robot Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Safe and Trustworthy AI |
Rovatsos | Michael | mrovatso@inf.ed.ac.uk | Artificial Intelligence, Ethics of AI, Human-AI Interaction, Social Computing, Collective Intelligence, Explainable AI, Algorithmic Fairness. |
Simpson | Ian | ian.simpson@ed.ac.uk |
Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Edinburgh University and Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. I have expertise in the application of computational methods in biomedicine and health with a special interest in multi-modal data integration using graph and machine learning methods including the use of complex representational schema such as knowledge graphs. I have extensive expertise of working with genomics data and unstructured clinical/biomedical texts particularly in relation to neurological and rare genetic disease. I am used to working in inter-disciplinary teams and have a background in biochemistry and genetics to complement my ongoing computational research in biomedical informatics. |
Stark | Ian | ian.stark@ed.ac.uk | Programming languages, particularly: type systems for programming, functional languages, modelling concurrent computation. |
Vijayakumar | Sethu | sethu.vijayakumar@ed.ac.uk | Professor of Robotics at Edinburgh University and Director of the Edinburgh Center for Robotics. I have expertise in all aspects of robotics: planning, sensing and control. My specialty is the application of Machine Learning and AI for the intelligent control of advanced robotic platforms and robot learning. I am a judge on BBC Robot Wars, have been involved with the launch of the UK wide BBC micro:bit initiative (www.microbit.org) and the winner of the Tam Dalyell Prize for excellence in science communication. I am a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and hold the Microsoft-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Robotics. |
Wadler | Phil | wadler@inf.ed.ac.uk |
Programming languages. Security issues related to programming languages. (Many reported security breaches could be avoided by using better languages.) Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts - particularly the programming language aspect of smart contracts. (Again, many reported exploits could be avoided by using better languages.) |
Webb | Barbara | b.webb@ed.ac.uk | Robotics, specifically biologically-inspired Robotics, navigation and learning in insects. |
Wolters | Maria | maria.wolters@ed.ac.uk |
"Why can't I get this app/gadget /phone /software to work? Why does it have to be so complicated to do what I need to do?" User experience, usability and human factors. |
Woods | Daniel | daniel.woods@ed.ac.uk |
Economics of security and privacy, cyber risk quantification, digital insurance, infosec management, online privacy |