ESO is a collaboration between researchers at Heriot-Watt University, the University of Edinburgh, and charity and industry partners.
Dr Ioannis Konstas
Principal Investigator (PI)
Associate Professor
Co-leader of the National Robotarium Safe & Secure AI for Robotics (SAIR)
Dr Gavin Abercrombie
Co-PI
Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Dr Tanvi Dinkar
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ethics in Conversational AI
Dr Aiqi Jiang
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Natural Language Processing
Dr Nancie Gunson
Co-Lead of ESO Impact Grant
Research Associate, Conversational AI
Dr Simona Frenda
Research Associate
Co-founder of Aequa-Tech
Nikolas Vitsakis
PhD candidate, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Professor Verena Rieser
ESO grant author
Senior Scientist, Google DeepMind
Tommo Chung
Software Engineer
Front End Development, Support Buddy
Professor Fiona McNeill
University of Edinburgh PI
Professor in Computer Science Education
Dr Claire Houghton
Lectureship in Social Policy and Qualitative Research
Dr Christina McMellon
Senior Research Fellow
Poppy Gerrard-Abbott
Senior Fellow, HEA
PhD Sociology, SPS
Researcher, Informatics
Dr Kate Farrell
Director of Curriculum Development & Professional Learning, Moray House School of Education
Data Education in Schools, Centre for Research in Digital Education
Destiny Noble
PhD Student in Social Policy, SPS
Tutor in Public Health and Public Policy