Full Professor
Interests: AI for analysis of verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Interests: AI for understanding human behaviour combining ML, computer vision and signal/speech processing
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Interests: Human-agent interaction, intelligent virtual agents, virtual social reality, ML and HCI for social skills, team processes assessment
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Interests: Social robotics, conversational systems, robots in public spaces
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Interests: Human and robot interactions, robots for health care, and real-time 3D reconstruction
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
Interests: Multimodal behavioural modelling combining visual AI and multimodal perception for applications on `AI for social good'
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Interests: Social perception and action, locomotion, VR, social intelligent agent, social robot
Research Associate
Project: Women, Ageing and Machine Learning on Screen (funded by Leverhulme Trust)
Mentor: Tanaya Guha
Research: Human expectations of robot performance based on its appearance and behaviour
Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster, Emily Cross
Research: Conversational human-robot interaction
Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster
Research: Brain-based inclusive design
Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli
Research: Pedestrian detection for mass tourism
Supervisor(s): Marwa Mahmoud
Research: Effectis of therapeutic music on physiology
Supervisor(s): Tanaya Guha, Fahim Kawsar
Thesis: Speech-driven head response generation
Supervisor(s): Tanaya Guha, Emma Li
Research: Co-speech gesture generation
Supervisor(s): Mathieu Chollet, Tanaya Guha
Research: Acoustic and Linguistic Analysis for Anxiety Detection in Public Speaking
Supervisor(s): Mathieu Chollet, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Research: Understanding cultural bias in automated facial expression recognition systems
Supervisor(s): Tanaya Guha, Rachael Jack
Research: Enhancing Immersive Virtual Interactions with Real-time Behaviour- Driven Virtual Agents
Supervisor(s): Mathieu Chollet, Mohammed Khamis
Research: Predicting speaker personality traits in real-world and VR environments
Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli, Tanaya Guha
Research: Neural networks for predicting stroke severity from multimodal MRI
Supervisor(s): Cassandra Sampaio Batista, Tanaya Guha
Research: Study of vocal tract variables in paralinguistic traits from speech
Supervisor(s): Alessandro Vinciarelli, Tanaya Guha
Research: Predicting learning performance from neural signals following reward and punishment
Supervisor(s): Marios Philiastides, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Research: Human-Robot interaction for multiple diverse users in real-world contexts
Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster, Jane Stuart-Smith
Research: Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environment
Supervisor(s): Emma Li, Tanaya Guha, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Research: Understanding human-robot social interaction from egocentric perspective
Supervisor(s): Tanaya Guha, Mathieu Chollet
Research: Explainable framework for mental health assessment
Supervisor(s): Marwa Mahmoud
Research: AI assistive tools for monitoring mental wellbeing
Supervisor(s): Marwa Mahmoud
Research: Digital user representations and perspective taking in mediated communication
Supervisor(s): Mary Ellen Foster, Dale Barr
Serena Dimitri (PhD 2025)
Areej Buker (PhD 2025)
Basmah Alsenani (PhD 2025)
Emily O'Hara (PhD 2024)
Fuxiang Tao (PhD 2024)
Gordon Rennie (PhD 2024)
Huda Alsofyani (PhD 2024)
Abeer Buker (PhD 2023)
Hadeel Alsaleh (PhD 2023)
Nujud Aloshban (PhD 2021)
Xiaoyu Xiong (PhD 2017)
Vijay Solanki (PhD 2017)
Filomena Scibelli (PhD 2016)
Hugues Salamin (PhD 2014)
Anna Polychroniou (PhD 2014)
Evdoxia Taka
Eva Fringi
Emily O'Hara
Ozan Bahadir