Acknowledged as an outstanding reviewer for ACL 2020.
Organiser of the 2nd Workshop on NLG for HRI (at HRI 2020).
NVidia donated a GPU for our research on Deep Learning.
Elected to serve on the board of the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (2017 – 2020).
Awarded the Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Tutorials and Invited Talks chair for INLG 2017 (to be held in Santiago De Compostella).
General chair for the 9th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2016)
Athena Swan Working Group
Co-Registration Chair for IEEE RO-MAN, 2014, Edinburgh.
Local organiser for UKCI 2012, the 12th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence, Heriot-Watt University. 5-7 September 2012, Edinburgh.
Research visit/Training
Leadership workshop at COST, Brussels 2019.
Research visit at Aalto University in November 2014, Helsinki – hosted by David McGookin.
Attended the RefNet Summer school on Psychological and Computational Models of Language Production, 24-31 Aug 2014.
Attendance at the SICSA Summer School on Inference and Dynamics in Interaction, 11th-15th June 2012, Glasgow, Scotland.
Attendance at the SICSA MMI Workshop on Technology for Health and Wellbeing, Wednesday 12th October 2011, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, SICSA.
