Helen Hastie | |
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| Born | Helen Hastie |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Centre of Speech Technology Research Georgetown University Edinburgh University |
| Occupation | Professor in Computer Science — Robotic AI researcher |
| Known for | Head of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | computer science |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Modelling prosodic and dialogue information for automatic speech recognition. |
Helen Hastie is the Head of the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh and a RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. She specialises in Human-Robot Interaction and Multimodal interfaces. Hastie has undertaken projects such as AI personal assistants for remote robots, autonomous systems and spoken dialogue systems for sectors in defence and energy.[1] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.