Scholar
Oliver Lemon
Google Scholar ID: YYWptO4AAAAJ
Professor; Academic Lead National Robotarium; Director of Interaction Lab, Edinburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,655
H-index
26
i10-index
84
Publications
20
Co-authors
107
list available
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Action Editor for TACL: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (MIT Press) since 2022
- ARR Area Chair / meta reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (from 2024)
- Former Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems and ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
- Served on the editorial board of Dialogue and Discourse
- Editor of IEEE Transactions on AI special issue on conversational AI (2023)
- General Chair of SIGDIAL 2022
- Area Chair for NAACL 2024 and reviewer for COLM 2024
- Reviewer for ERC and EC IHI proposals
- Elected ELLIS Fellow in Multimodal Learning Systems (2024)
- Featured in media outlets including BBC, IEEE Spectrum, and New Scientist
Research Experience
- Faculty advisor for Amazon Alexa Challenge teams (finalists in 2017, 2018, and 2023)
- Involved in the EU H2020 SPRING project on conversational robotics (2020–2024)
- Organized and participated in international workshops and symposia, including CHI 2023, SICSA Conversational AI workshop, etc.
- Frequent invited speaker at institutions and conferences, including Cambridge Language Sciences, TUM, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Participated in the UK Government Foundation Model Taskforce (2023) and Apple NLU Workshop (2023)
Background
- Expert in conversational, agentic, and embodied AI
- Research interests include generative AI, machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and interactive robotics
- Professor of AI and Academic Co-Lead at the UK's National Robotarium
- Director of the Interaction Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
- Previously worked at Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh
- Elected ELLIS Fellow in Multimodal Learning Systems (2024)
