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Yannis Konstas is an Associate Professor (Reader in the UK system) at Heriot-Watt University’s School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Science. He co-leads the Safe and Secure AI for Robotics (SAIR) theme at the National Robotarium. His research focuses on Responsible, Safe, and Explainable AI applications using NLP, including Gender-Based Violence (GBV) detection via LLMs, Social Behavior Modeling, and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotics. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2013), supervised by Mirella Lapata, and has held postdoctoral roles at the University of Washington and the University of Edinburgh.
Research interests include Natural Language Generation (NLG), representations, modeling, and evaluation across domains like math problems and dialogue systems. His work spans Psycholinguistics, semantics, and Information Retrieval. He actively explores new fields, such as LLM interpretability and instruction-driven robotic manipulation. He accepts PhD students and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, including regulatory compliance digitalization and embodied AI for egocentric video understanding.
- Education: PhD in Computer Science (2013), University of Edinburgh; Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Washington (2015–2017) and University of Edinburgh.
