HI, I'M ANGUS ADDLESEE
Applied Scientist and Conversational AI Researcher studying a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Combining NLP, Computer Vision, and Linked Data to develop more natural voice assistants.
Quick Highlights
Latest peer-reviewed paper: Multi-party Goal Tracking with LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering at SIGdial 2023 (see all papers)
Latest article: Repairing Interrupted Questions Makes Voice Assistants More Accessible in Amazon Science (see all articles)
Education
2019 - Present:
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
A leading organiser of: YRRSDS, European Chatbot Summit, SIGdial, African Chatbot Summit, SLiDInG
Supporting organiser of: ICMI
Speaking
Experienced speaker at various locations e.g.: Los Angeles, Montreal, Abu Dhabi, Stockholm, Boston, Leipzig, Riga, Ljubljana, Eindhoven, Prague, Edinburgh, and more...