TAS Hub Researchers

Co-Investigators

Tina Seabrooke

Tina Seabrooke

Lecturer in Psychology

Research Interests: Memory, metacognition, associative learning, and attention.

Wendy Adams

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Research Interests: Psychology, visual perception, multi-sensory perception, human psychophysics, computational modelling.

Tanya Aplin

Tanya Aplin

Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Research Interests: Copyright law, patent law, law of confidential information, privacy law.

Node Liaison Manager (Governance and regulation)
Steven Benford

Steve Benford

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Augmented and Mixed Reality, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Tangible and Material Computing, user experience design, and human computer interaction.

Sector Lead (Creative Industries )
Rita Borgo

Rita Borgo

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Research Interests: Data Science, Data Visualisation, Visual Analytics, Human actors in Visualisation, Urban Informatics, High Performance Computing.

Gary Burnett

Gary Burnett

Professor of Transport Human Factors

Research Interests: Human factors, ergonomics, driverless cars, human-machine interfaces, autonomous vehicles.

Sector Lead (Autonomous Vehicles)
Michael Butler

Michael Butler

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Software engineering, Event-B, Secure systems, mathematical modelling.

Node Liaison Manager (Resilience)
Dr Age Chapman

Adriane (Age) Chapman

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Database systems, provenance, data retrieval, algorithmic acountability, artificial intelligence, data science, data economy.

Sector Lead (Healthcare)
Hana Chockler

Hana Chockler

Reader in Computer Science

Research Interests: Formal verification of hardware, Formal verification of software, Causality, Coverage and vacuity, Explanation of counterexamples, Software testing

Node Liaison Manager (Governance and regulation)
Prokar Dasgupta

Prokar Dasgupta

Professor of Surgery

Research Interests: Robotic surgery, surgical simulation.

Sector Lead (Healthcare)
Kate Devlin

Kate Devlin

Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence

Research Interests: Bias in artificial intelligence, Human-computer and human-robot interaction, Interaction design in emerging technologies, Digital cultural heritage.

Advocacy and Engagement Director
Diana Eccles

Diana Eccles

Professor of Cancer Genetics

Research Interests: Genetics, cancer, risk prediction, medicine, clinical

Sector Lead (Healthcare)

Christian Enemark

Professor of International Relations

Research Interests: Global health politics, international security, arms control, military technologies, drones, artificial intelligence, military robots

Christine Evers

Christine Evers

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Research Interests: Doctoral training, Signal processing, Audio and acoustic, machine listening, autonomous agents.

Node Liaison Manager (Trust)
Joel Fischer

Joel Fischer

Professor of Human Computer Interaction

Research Interests: Artifical Intelligence, Human-centred AI, Voice-speech interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, Collocated Interaction.

Research Director
Murray Goulden

Murray Goulden

Senior Research Fellow in Sociology

Research Interests: Internet of Things, Smart Home, governance and design, energy, digital data.

Susan Gourvenec

Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering

Research Interests: Intelligent and Resilient Ocean Engineering, Ocean Structures, geotechnical engineering, energy.

Sector Lead (Industry X.0, Ocean)

Dame Wendy Hall

Regius Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Skills champion for AI, web science, digital economy.

Skills Director

Ann-Marie Hughes

Associate Professor, Health Sciences

Research Interests: habilitation, neurological conditions, electrical stimulation, non-invasive brain stimulation, wearable robotics, Telerehabilitation, movement sensors, Constraint Induced Movement Therapy.

Richard Hyde

Richard Hyde

Professor of Law, Regulation and Governance

Research Interests: Law, regulation, governance, public engagement, food safety, food law.

Boriana Koleva

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, mixed reality interfaces, Blast Theory.

Ayse Kucukyilmaz

Assistant Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Research Interests: Haptics, Human Robot Collaboration, Shared Control, Human in the Loop.

Paul Luff

Paul Luff

Professor in Organisations and Technology

Research Interests: Public Services Management and Organisation, video-based ethonogrophy, augmented technologies, robotics, novel video-mediated systems.

Sector Lead (Autonomous Systems)

Derek (Mac) McAuley

Professor of Digital Economy

Research Interests: Digital economy, behavioural change, energy consumption, ubiquitous computing, computer architecture, networking, privacy, information policy, digital society.

Deputy Director, Sector Lead (IoT)
Luc Moreau

Luc Moreau

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Data Provenance, Distributed Systems, Service orientated architectures, dirstibuted algorithms, Formal proof of algorithms.

Deputy Director
Elvira Perez Vallejos

Elvira Perez Vallejos

Professor of Digital Technology and Mental Health

Research Interests: Digital technology and mental health, Medicine, Digital humanism, cybersecurity, digital economy.

Responsible Research and Innovation Director

Katie Plant

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Human factors engineering, aviation, aeronautical, Cognitive Work Analysis, Hierarchal Task Analysis, Error analyses and Critical Path Analysis.

Node Liaison Manager (Resilience)

Alexandra Pollitt

Director of Research at the Policy Institute, King’s College London

Research Interests: Mental health, policy and public health.

Policy Lead

Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Research interests: Cyber physical systems, smart energy systems, machine learning, AI, Game Theory, IoT

Director, UKRI TAS Hub
James Scanlan

James Scanlan

Professor of Design

Research Interests: Aerospace design, design decision support systems, aerospace manufacturing, process optimisation, discrete-event simulation, aerospace product life-cycle analysis and costing, Unmanned arial vehicles, Drones.

Node Liaison Manager (Functionality), Sector Lead (Autonomous Vehicles)
Sarah Sharples

Sarah Sharples

Professor of Human Factors

Research Interests: Materials and manufacturing engineering, Doctoral training, cognitive ergonomics, human factors; equality, diversity and inclusion.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Director

Paurav Shukla

Professor of Marketing

Research Interests: Marketing, Digital Data, consumption practises, consumer behaviours, identity signalling, status consumption, digital economy.

Alexa Spence

Associate Professor 

Research Interests: Social psychology, economic psychology, environmental psychology, climate change, energy issues, public perceptions,

Crawford Spence

Crawford Spence

Professor of Accounting

Research Interests: Accounting, financial management.

Sector Lead (Financial Services)
Carmine Ventre

Carmine Ventre

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Algorithmic game theory, microeconomics and the internet, Algorithms and complexity, (AI for) algorithmic trading and finance, Cryptography and security.

Sector Lead (Financial Services)

Luca Vigano

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Formal Methods for security, Security logics, Security testing, Labelled deduction for non-classical logics (modal logics, substructural logics, etc.), Combination of logics.

Node Liaison Manager (Security)
Christian Wagner

Christian Wagner

Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Cyber security, human data, decision making.

Sector Lead (Industry X.0)

Associated Researchers

David Bossens

Senior Scientist at Centre for Frontier AI Research, A*STAR

Research interests: the gaps between simulation and reality.

Alan Chamberlain

Alan‘s research interests are in HCI.

Sector Lead (Creative industries)
Maria Galvez Trigo

Maria Galvez Trigo

Lecturer In Computer Science

Research Interests: robotics, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Machine Learning

Josh Krook

Josh’s research interests are in legal ethics, policy and governance of autonomous systems.

Elena Nichele

Elena Nichele

Lecturer in International Business Management

Research interests: linguistics and marketing.

Mohammad Soorati

Lecturer in Computer Science

Research Interests: human-swarm interaction, swarm robotics, trust in human-swarm teaming, aerial swarms, and evolutionary/ bio-robotics.

Elnaz Shafipour Yourdshahi

Research interests: Software Engineering and Computer Science

Sylvaine Tuncer

Lecturer In Work, Interaction & Technology

Research Interests: Management Public Services Management & Organisation

Dr Victoria Young

Victoria Young

Research interests: organisational theory, socio-technical systems and interactions, and the construction of legitimacy.

Jennifer Williams

Assistant Professor

Research interests: speech/audio solutions to trustworthy and explainable smart energy management.

Research Fellows

Dr Michael Akintunde

Michael Akintunde

Michael’s research interests lie in the area of formal verification, particularly in the development of techniques for verifying the correctness of software generated using machine learning.

Research Fellow, King's College London

Tayyaba Azim

Tayyaba’s research interests include deep learning, topic models, kernel methods, and real time systems.

Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Pepita Barnard

Pepita is a researcher in Digital Economy, allied to Computer Science, Human Factors and Medicine.

Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Jeremie Clos

Jeremie’s research interests revolve around machine learning.

Transistional Assistant Professor
Liz Dowthwaite

Liz Dowthwaite

Liz has a multidisciplinary research background grounded in psychology and human factors.

Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Justyna Lisinska

Justyna is a policy researcher.

Research Fellow, King's College London
Peta Masters

Peta Masters

Peta is interested in the importance of trust and “likability” in eliciting cooperative behaviour and the ways in which autonomous systems may prove to be untrustworthy.

Research Associate, King's College London
Dominic Price

Dominic Price

Dominic’s blog provides more details of his research interests.

Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Sachini Weerawardhana

Sachini’s research interests are in human-aware automated planning, intervention planning, human-agent interactions and explainable planning systems.

Research Fellow, King's College London