Ioannis Konstas am an associate professor (reader according to the UK system) at Heriot-Watt University. He is also a co-leader of the National Robotarium Safe and Secure AI for Robotics (SAIR) theme.
His main research goal is to build Responsible, Safe, and Explainable AI Applications using Natural Language Processing (NLP).
His current interests revolve around the detection and mitigation (through Counter-speech) of Gender Based Violence (GBV) using LLMs, and Social Behaviour Modelling in LLMs. More recently he has been looking into interpreting the reasoning capabilities and knowledge capacity of LLMs mechanistically and has been exploring the linguistic role of instructions in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models for robotic manipulation.