Helen Hastie has recently been appointed Professor at Heriot-Watt University. Helen was promoted to full Professor in the Computer Science Department of the School of Mathmatics and Computer Sciences (MACS). Helen is currently on a Leverhume fellowship looking into explainable AI and trust for interactions with autonomous systems. Congratulations Helen!
This half day training session will cover the following:
Understand what makes an effective pitch
- Get clear on the objective and the audience
- Students deliver pre-prepared pitches which are filmed
- Review the filmed pitches as a group and provide feedback
- Reflections and action plan
Throughout the masterclass the following learning areas will be addressed:
Congratulations to Verena Rieser who has recently been appointed Professor in the School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (MACS). Verena was promoted to full Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, where she leads the NLP research group on Spoken Dialogue Systems and Natural Language Generation. She received her PhD in 2008 from Saarland University and joined Heriot-Watt University in 2011 as Assistant Professor/ Lecturer. She currently serves as a faculty advisor for the Amazon Alexa Challenge and as an area chair for ACL 2017.
Researchers, end users and technology developers attended the International Workshop on Robotics (IWR 2017) which took place on 30th and 31st March at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, Brazil.
This workshop, with a theme of “Robotics and automation: uncovering recent developments and applications on energy, industry, environment, agriculture, health and social settings” was organised jointly by Dr Patricia Vargas from Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Professor Ely Carneiro de Paiva, from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Unicamp.
The Robotics and Interaction Labs at Heriot-Watt University hosted a joint Open Day on Wednesday 21st June. The Open Day included two keynote speakers: Dr Verena Rieser from the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt and Dr Mary-Ellen Foster, a Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Rieser discussed "Data-driven methods for spoken dialogue systems" and Dr Foster presented on "Face-to-face conversation with socially intelligent robots".
Prof. Jérôme Szewczyk will present a talk " Current Trends and Technical Challenges in Surgical Robotics" on Tuesday June 27th at Heriot-Watt University at 11AM in PGC 2.02. Following this there will be a half day workshop lead by Prof. Szewczyk and Dr. Mustafa Suphi Erden in WP 3.15 where they will discuss collaboration possibilities in the domain of laparoscopy, laparoscopy skill training and robotic assistance for laparoscopy.
On Monday 19th June 20 participants joined Dr. Mauro Dragone for an interactive workshop focused on examining robotic and ICT solutions for healthy ageing and assisted living.
This induction day is mandatory for all students commencing the programme in September 2017.
The schedule for the day is as follows:
13:00 - 14:00 Welcome Lunch with other Informatics CDT students (4th Floor, Mini Forum 2)
14:00 -16:00 Introduction to Informatics (Room 1.15)
Tour of Facilities
16:00 - 17:00 RAS CDT reception – new and continuing students (G.07)
This induction day is mandatory for all students commencing the programme in September 2017.
The schedule for the day is as follows:
09:30-09:45 Welcome coffee
09:45-10:30 RAS CDT introduction - Professor David Lane, CDT Director, Heriot-Watt University
10:30-12:00 Tour of facilities
12:00-12:30 Health and Safety Briefing; Allocation of desk space
12:30-13:30 Networking lunch
13:30-14:30 Course choices, enrolment completion with Registry
The aim of the 2017 conference is two-fold:
to provide delegates with an overview of the areas of research in which the RAS CDT students are working
to provide a forum in which academia and industry can open the dialogue about collaborating to seek solutions to real world challenges