Helen Hastie
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. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.