Directory of experts
Informatics academic experts in various areas who can be contacted by the Press Office and the media.
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| Surname | First name | Email Address | Area of Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspinall | David | david.aspinall@ed.ac.uk | Cyber Security and Privacy. |
| 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. Servers and data centers, systems with quality-of-service guarantees. |
| Herrmann | J. Michael | michael.herrmann@ed.ac.uk | Self-organisation, Complex Adaptive Systems, Metaheuristic Optimisation, autonomous agents and Robotics. |
| 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, especially (but not exclusively) topics related to multilinguality and translation. |
| Luger | Ewa |
ewa.luger@ed.ac.uk |
The ethics of intelligent machines, in particular how complex data-driven systems might be made intelligible to the user, through design. Consent around data collection and helping developers design systems that are non-problematic in this regard. |
| Magdy | Walid | wmagdy@inf.ed.ac.uk | Social Media Analytics, stance and political bias prediction, Computional Social Science, Data Mining, information retrieval. |
| Nagarajan | Vijay | vijay.nagarajan@ed.ac.uk | Memory Consistency models, Cache Coherence protocols, Memory systems, Distributed systems. |
| Nazarpour | Kia | kianoush.nazarpour@ed.ac.uk | Neuroprosthetics, neurorehabilitation |
| Papapanagiotou | Petros | pe.p@ed.ac.uk | Artificial Intelligence, process improvement, workflow management, technology integration and innovation, Health Informatics, care pathways, healthcare data management, formal verification. |
| Patras | Paul | ppatras@inf.ed.ac.uk | Wireless networking, mobile systems, IoT Security & Privacy. |
| Ramamoorthy | Subramanian (Ram) | s.ramamoorthy@ed.ac.uk | Robotics, Machine Learning, Decision Science. |
| Rovastsos | Michael | mrovatso@inf.ed.ac.uk | Artificial Intelligence, Ethics of AI, Human-AI Interaction, Social Computing, Collective Inteligence, Explainable AI, Algorithmic Fairness. |
| Simpson | Ian | ian.simpson@ed.ac.uk | Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Neuroscience. |
| Stark | Ian | ian.stark@ed.ac.uk | Programming languages, particularly: type systems for programming, functional languages, modelling concurrent computation. |
| Stevens | Perdita | perdita.stevens@ed.ac.uk | Software engineering, especially mathematical aspects of model-driven development: e.g., how the development of software may change in the future as a result of better use of models adapted to the needs of different stakeholders. |
| Vaniea | Kami | kvaniea@inf.ed.ac.uk | Human factors of Cyber Security and Privacy software updates, most questions around "how does an average person stay safe online". |
| 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. |
| Webb | Barbara | b.webb@ed.ac.uk | Robotics, specifically biologically-inspired Robotics, navigation and learning in insects. |