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= Helen Hastie = Professor Helen Hastie (née Wright) FRSE is the Director of the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, and a Professor of Computer Science and Academic Lead for the National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University. Hastie specialises in Human-Robot Interactions and Natural Language Interfaces, with a focus on managing trust between Robots and Autonomous Systems in hazardous situations.

Education
Hastie received a M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (1995), and M.S. in Computational Linguistics from Georgetown University (1996). She received a Ph.D from the Centre of Speech and Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh (2000).

Career
Hastie began her career as a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh in 1997 and '''AT&T Research Laboratories in 2001. She was offered a position as Senior Member of the Advanced Technology Laboratories for the American Aerospace and Technology Corporation,''' Lockheed Martin, in 2003, before being promoted to Lead Member in 2005.

Hastie continued her career in research in 2008 in the Department of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in the UK and moved to Academia as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in 2009.

Throughout the course of her career, Hastie has been the Principal Investigator in multiple research projects

Currently
UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Trust: investigating how to build, maintain and manage trust in robotic and autonomous systems (November 2020-March 2024).

EPSRC Prosperity Partnership: working on human-machine teaming with SeeByte Ltd (September 2021-August 2024).

Past Research Projects
ORCA (Work Package 3 lead): Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub. working on 'Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction with Explainable AI' (October 2017-March 2021).

RobotCafe (Principal Investigator): Funded by an EPSRC IAA grant, this project is building a social robotics platform based around a cafe environment where the robot can take your coffee order and interact with the customer. (March 2020-March 2021)

VERSO (Principal Investigator): Funded by SeeByte, MASTS and Datalab: a PhD placement looking at data-driven techniques for interaction with autonomous vehicles (October 2017-March 2021). INCA (Principal Investigator): Intelligent iNteraCtion for Autonomy (INCA) is funded by the Leverhulme Trust Fellowship scheme (August 2017-July 2018).

MIRIAM (Principal Investigator): Multimodal Intelligent inteRactIon for Autonomous systeMs (MIRIAM) funded by Dstl under the Defence and Security Accelerator under the theme revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence with industry partners SeeByte and Tekever (June-November 2017).

REGIME Phase 2 (Principal Investigator): REGIME (REport GeneratIon from Meta-data) funded by Dstl under the ASUR programme (Phase 2) with SeeByte and Thales (Nov 2015-Oct 2016).

Emote (Work Package lead): EU FP7 EMOTE project to design, develop and evaluate a new generation of artificial embodied tutors that have perceptive capabilities to engage in empathic interactions with learners in a shared physical space. (2012-2015)

PARLANCE (Coordinator): FP7 funded project PARLANCE on search through adaptive, personalised incremental interaction (2011-2014) with team: Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Arash Eshghi, Simon Keizer, Xingkun Liu, Yanchao Yu, Sandra Birch and advisors Oliver Lemon and Verena Rieser.

REGIME Phase 1 (Principal Investigator): REGIME Phase 1 (REport GeneratIon from Meta-data), DSTL funded project as part of the ASUR programme on report generation (2014) with Dr. Zhuoran Wang.

CLASSiC (Research Fellow): The EU FP7 project CLASSiC on statistical end-to-end spoken dialogue systems. (2008-2011)

mySneeze (Principal Investigator): The mySneeze project, a multidisciplinary project with three other Scottish Universities, leading design, development and evaluation of the mySneeze mobile application for hay fever monitoring (2011-2014).

DUDE (Research Fellow): Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept project (2007-2008).

List of Publications