PhD students and research fellows I supervise or have supervised.
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Tanaya Guha)
University of Glasgow · 2025–present
Virtual Agent Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Mohamed Khamis)
University of Glasgow · 2025–present
Biometric Authentication for eXtended Reality
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Mohamed Khamis)
University of Glasgow · 2024–present
Artificial Companions for eXtended Reality
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Sharon Simpson)
University of Glasgow · 2024–present
Chatbots for Mental Health Support
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Alessandro Vinciarelli)
University of Glasgow · 2024–present
Acoustic and Linguistic Analysis for Automatic Anxiety Detection in Public Speaking
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Bridgette Wessels)
University of Glasgow · 2023–present
Emotional Labour and Affective Labour in Social Robots
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Alessandro Vinciarelli)
University of Glasgow · 2023–present
Speech and Physiological Foundation Models for Stress Detection
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Tanaya Guha)
University of Glasgow · 2023–present
Social Scene Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction Egocentric Videos
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Simone Stumpf)
University of Glasgow · 2023–present
Machine Learning Fairness Auditing
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Domitile Lourdeaux)
UTC Heudiasyc, France · 2023–present
Virtual Reality Scenario Generation for First Responders Training
PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Katherine Kuchenbecker and Prof. Caroline Cao)
Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart; IMT Atlantique, France · 2021–present
Multimodal Analysis to Understand and Enhance Team Performance in Time-Constrained Environments
PhD (co-supervised with Prof. Cédric Fleury and Dr. Cédric Dumas) — defended February 2026
IMT Atlantique, France · 2022–2026
Measuring and Modelling Team Activity in Virtual Reality: from Social Signals to Collaboration Indices
PhD (co-supervised with Prof. Chloé Clavel, Dr. Beatrice Biancardi and Dr. Matthieu Labeau) — defended December 2025
Télécom Paris, France · 2022–2025
Automatically Interpreting LLM Judgments Using Linguistic Insights: Case of Public Speaking
PhD (co-supervised with Prof. Caroline Cao and Dr. Cédric Dumas) — defended February 2025
IMT Atlantique, France · 2021–2025
Modelling the Induction of Social Stress in Immersive Virtual Reality Simulations
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (co-supervised with Prof. Mohamed Khamis and Dr. Mark McGill)
University of Glasgow · 2023–2024
Assessing Efficacy of Social Virtual Reality Safety Techniques.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
IMT Atlantique, France · Feb 2022–Feb 2024
User-Centred Design of Technologically Augmented Public Speaking Skills Training.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (co-supervised with Dr. Cédric Dumas)
IMT Atlantique, France · 2021–2022
Supporting Collaboration in Virtual Reality Interactions.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (co-supervised with Dr. Chloé Clavel)
Télécom Paristech, France · 2021
Investigating the Timing of Public Speaking Judgments.