Helen Hastie
Professor
Researches trustworthy interaction through natural language, including conversational agents and explainable interfaces for robots and autonomous systems.
Helen Hastie's lab at Edinburgh works on reasoning & agents, interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs and trustworthy & safe ML. 11 papers since 2023. 3 PhD students. 5 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 5
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 0
- 1 papers2024 · T1 0
- 7 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Trustworthy & safe ML2 papers
- Reasoning & agents1 paper
- conversational agents1 paper
- Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs0 papers
- researches trustworthy0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20261 paper
- Failing Forward Workshop at HRIWilson, B., Robb, D., Lim, M. Y., Hastie, H., Aylett, M., & Georgiou, T. (2026, March)
20252 papers
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Agent InteractionLost in the Story: The Impact of Narrative with a Direction-Giving Robot
- Maritime Autonomous Vehicles: Methods and measurements ChapterSurrogate model framework for explainable autonomous behaviour in maritime robotic systems
20241 paper
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text GenerationEnhancing Situation Awareness through Model-Based Explanation Generation
20237 papers
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [pdf]**2023 KROS Interdisciplinary Research Conference Award in Social Human-Robot Interaction**
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [pdf]**Honourable Mention*
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Explainable Robotics [pdf]A Surrogate Model Framework for Explainable Autonomous Behaviour
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMASExplanation Styles for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
- Proceedings of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) SymposiumMcKenna, P.E., Romeo, M., Pimentel, J., Diab, M., Moujahid, M., Hastie, H. (2023)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) [link]Nesset, B., Romeo, M., Rajendran, G., and Hastie, H. (2023)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AIRobb, D.A., Lopes, J., Ahmad, M., McKenna, P.E., Liu, X. Lohan, K., and Hastie, H. (2023) Seeing Eye to Eye: Trustworthy Embodiment for Task-based Conversational Agents
Where alumni went5 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
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Informatics PhD
- Round
- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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