Awards
2025 - Interaction Design for International Development Award - INTERACT 2025
2025 - People Make Research Nominee x 2 - University of Glasgow
2025 - EPSRC Vacation Internship Grant (~£4000)
2024 - EPSRC IAA Grant (£50,000) - Augmenting Zoomorphic Robots with Affective Interaction using Mixed Reality
2023 - People Make Research Nominee - University of Glasgow
2023 - SICSA Research Themes Award (£200) - Study Funding
2023 - Honorable Mention - CHI '23
2023 - Best Demo Award - Augmented Humans 2023
2022 - People Make Research Nominee - University of Glasgow
2022 - SICSA Travel and Registration Grant (£400) - ICMI 2022
2018 - Entrepreneurial Scotland (~$8000) - Saltire Scholarship
5 x Special Recognition for Outstanding Academic Reviews
at CHI PLAY 2023, CHI 2024, ISMAR 2024, DIS 2024
Talks and Professional Activities
Associate Chair - CHI '25, INTERACT `23, DIS '24, DIS '25
Poster Chair - MUM '25
Local Chair - ACII'24, ETRA '24
2025 - Glasgow Interactive Systems Section Seminar Speaker - Breathing Life in Zoomorphic Robots using Mixed Reality
2024 - Pint of Science Speaker - Keep Calm and Feel the Vibrations
2024 - Glasgow Women in Computing Science Seminar - Being a Carer as an Early Career Researcher
2024 - ICRA Workshop Invited Speaker - Applications and Future Directions of Affective Technologies
2024 - Glasgow Interactive Systems Section Seminar Speaker - Personalisation of Affective Interfaces
2023 - 2025 - Glasgow Women in Computing Science Seminar Series Organising Committee
2023 - Guest Seminar on Emotionally Resonant Vibrations for Social Anxiety - Abertay University (invited by Dr Salma Elsayed)
Teaching and Supervision
2025 - Supervision of 2 Intern Projects - University of Glasgow
2022 - Current - Supervision of 7 MSci/MSc students - University of Glasgow
2025 - AI and Robotics in Society Summer Course Universitas Gadjah Mada - Affective Computing: Exploring Emotional Relationships Between Man and Machine
2025 - BSci Lecture on Augmented Reality Zoomorphic Robots - Mahidol University - Human Robot Interaction Course (invited by Dr Patrick Hung)
2025 - UPWARDS Seminar - Academic Writing for PGR/PDRAs
2024 - M/BSci Lecture on Virtual Reality - University of Glasgow - Mobile HCI Course
2023 - M/BSci Lecture on Wearable Computing - University of Glasgow - Mobile HCI Course
2022 - BSci Video Lecture on Variables and Factors - University of Glasgow - Research Methods and Techniques Course
2019 - Tutor and Laboratory Assistant - University of Glasgow - Year 1 Programming and HCI Courses