Dimitra Gkatzia

Associate Professor at the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University and a SICSA AI Theme co-lead

Dr Dimitra Gkatzia is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University and a SICSA AI Theme co-lead. Dimitra is interested in making computers and robots interact in a human-like way using natural language, while at the same time respecting the privacy of the users. Her current work on Human-Robot Interaction focuses on the interplay between various modalities (vision, speech, knowledge-bases) in real-world settings for human-robot teaming scenarios. Her work in this area focuses on enhancing computers/robots conversational capabilities with “commonsense” similar to the ones present in human-human communication. She is also interested in addressing the challenges of dialogue systems and response generation in low-resource settings where example dialogues/data is not freely available, or it is hard to acquire due to challenges such as privacy issues or low numbers of native speakers of a language.