DR ANGUS ADDLESEE
Applied Scientist and Conversational AI Researcher with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Combining NLP, Computer Vision, and Linked Data to develop more natural voice assistants.
Quick Highlights
Latest Conference paper: Multi-party Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic at EACL 2024 (see all papers)
Latest Journal paper: You Have Interrupted me Again!: Making Voice Assistants More Dementia-friendly with Incremental Clarification at Frontiers in Dementia 2024 (see all papers)
Latest article: Repairing Interrupted Questions Makes Voice Assistants More Accessible in Amazon Science (see all articles)
Current work in TIME Magazine: here
Education
2024:
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
2018: MSc with Distinction in AI with Speech and Multimodality
2016: BSc (Hons) in Mathematics
Experience
2022 - Present: Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University
Previously: Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, and Data Analyst
Organising
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
Speaking
Experienced speaker at various locations e.g: Los Angeles, Montreal, Abu Dhabi, Stockholm, Boston, Leipzig, Riga, Ljubljana, Eindhoven, Prague, Edinburgh, and more...