Angus Addlesee

Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.

(@AmazonScience)

Developing natural and accessible voice assistants

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

Apply here: https://t.co/ftRRl2h3Ow

And if you haven't tried Alexa+ yet, sign up here: https://t.co/yxPhmZELIK

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

We're looking for interns to join us at @AmazonScience! Come build the future of AI with us.

We just launched Alexa+ in the UK and there's so much more to come 🎉

MS/PhD students in GenAI, LLMs, speech, NLP & more - this one's for you. Based in London or Cambridge.

Links in 🧵

[SIGdial @sigdial]

📢 Call for Papers: #SIGDIAL2026
Submit your latest work on discourse & dialogue to the 27th Annual SIGdial Conference (Atlanta, July 13–15, 2026)!

🗓 Deadlines (AoE)
• Mar 23 – Title & abstract
• Mar 30 – Full paper (PDF)
• May 4 – ARR commitment
• May 25 – Notifications

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

This was a major collaboration across Europe, huge thanks to:

@oliverlemon for leading the team from @HeriotWattUni, and all SPRING partners & colleagues who made it possible (see the huge author list!)

A milestone for socially assistive robotics in healthcare! 🤖💬

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

Our SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! 🎉

📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare

We explore how hospital patients & our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
https://t.co/mljalwUC6l

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

The paper ties together work from 8 institutions to advance human–robot interaction (HRI) in real healthcare settings

We address:
• Robot navigation in clinical environments
• Speech processing & non-verbal behaviour
• Accessible conversational AI for older adults
• & more!

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

@StrategyDigital It was great to meet you!

[Onur Ibrahim @StrategyDigital]

Great presentation by ⁦@Addlesee_AI⁩ at the AI dinner #aidinner #ai #dimentia

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

@Amrkeleg @HeriotWattUni @iLab_hwu Thanks Amr!!

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

It has been wonderful collaborating with my friends at @HeriotWattUni 's Interaction Lab (@iLab_hwu). Thanks!

In January, I submitted my PhD thesis titled: "Incremental Multi-party Conversational AI for People with Dementia"

Luckily, even the sun came out for graduation day ☀️

[Heriot-Watt University @HeriotWattUni]

Congratulations to artificial intelligence graduate John-Angus Addlesee, who is the third generation of his family following his father and grandfather to study at Heriot-Watt University. 🎓👏

#HeriotWattUni #HWUGradCongratulations to artificial intelligence graduate John-Angus Addlesee, who is the third generation of his family following his father and grandfather to study at Heriot-Watt University. 🎓👏

#HeriotWattUni #HWUGrads

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

@konsgavriil @HeriotWattUni @iLab_hwu Thanks Kostas!!

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

@eliana__pastor @HeriotWattUni @iLab_hwu Thanks Eliana!! 🎉

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

@simoneballoccu @HeriotWattUni @iLab_hwu Haha, it was very lucky 😂 thanks Simone!!

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

@nagunson @HeriotWattUni @iLab_hwu Thanks Nancie!!

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

@lilyxu0 @HeriotWattUni @iLab_hwu Thanks Lily!! I hope you're enjoying your postdoc 🎉

[Dr Bryony Payne @bryony_payne]

Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with @UCL_VoCoLab, @Addlesee_AI and @verena_rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.

[Barbara Plank @barbara_plank]

Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic

Angus Addlesee, N. Cherakara, N. Nelson, D.H. Garcia, N. Gunson, W. Sieińska, C. Dondrup, O. Lemon

https://t.co/DaxMXffu1F

Best Demo Award #eacl2024

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

I am delighted to announce that we won the "Best Demo Award" at #EACL2024 🎉

It can be found here: https://t.co/RuONxMzc3d

Thanks @eaclmeeting!

Authors: @Addlesee_AI, @n_cherakara, Nivan Nelson, @d_hgarcia, @nagunson, Weronika Sieińska, @cdondrup and @oliverlemon

@iLab_hwu

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

I am also excited to be on a research panel with Kulvinder Panesar (@kaykpanesar), Anuragini Shirish (@TAAnuragini), Anna Xygkou (@anna_ksigou), and Amany Elbanna (@DrElbannaAmany1) on the 13th March!

[Angus Addlesee @Addlesee_AI]

Next week, I'll be speaking at the @EuropeanChatbot Summit 🎉🎉

I will present both my research, and the work by @HeriotWattUni's team on the @SpringH2020 project!

We will also be bringing the ARI Robot by @PALRobotics with @oliverlemon, @nagunson, & @n_cherakara

@iLab_hwu