Team

PhD students and research fellows I supervise or have supervised.

Current Students & Postdocs

Junhan Yang

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Tanaya Guha)

University of Glasgow · 2025–present

Virtual Agent Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis

Junle Li

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Mohamed Khamis)

University of Glasgow · 2025–present

Biometric Authentication for eXtended Reality

Morad Elfleet

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Mohamed Khamis)

University of Glasgow · 2024–present

Artificial Companions for eXtended Reality

Maryam Aziz

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Sharon Simpson)

University of Glasgow · 2024–present

Chatbots for Mental Health Support

Maram AlMutairi

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Alessandro Vinciarelli)

University of Glasgow · 2024–present

Acoustic and Linguistic Analysis for Automatic Anxiety Detection in Public Speaking

Wenli Hu

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Bridgette Wessels)

University of Glasgow · 2023–present

Emotional Labour and Affective Labour in Social Robots

Alia Ahmed Al Dossary

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Alessandro Vinciarelli)

University of Glasgow · 2023–present

Speech and Physiological Foundation Models for Stress Detection

Tongfei Bian

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Tanaya Guha)

University of Glasgow · 2023–present

Social Scene Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction Egocentric Videos

Lin Luo

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Simone Stumpf)

University of Glasgow · 2023–present

Machine Learning Fairness Auditing

Jeanne Parisse

PhD Student (co-supervised with Prof. Domitile Lourdeaux)

UTC Heudiasyc, France · 2023–present

Virtual Reality Scenario Generation for First Responders Training

Arnaud Allemang-Trivalle

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

Alumni

Aurélien Léchappe´

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

Alisa Barkar

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

Celia Kessassi

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

Dr. Maheshya Weerasinghe

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.

Dr. Liv Danthon-Lefebvre

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

IMT Atlantique, France · Feb 2022–Feb 2024

User-Centred Design of Technologically Augmented Public Speaking Skills Training.

Dr. Alexandre Kabil

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (co-supervised with Dr. Cédric Dumas)

IMT Atlantique, France · 2021–2022

Supporting Collaboration in Virtual Reality Interactions.

Dr. Beatrice Biancardi

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (co-supervised with Dr. Chloé Clavel)

Télécom Paristech, France · 2021

Investigating the Timing of Public Speaking Judgments.