Welcome to my webpages!

I am a Professor in the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at Heriot-Watt University. I am also an Honorary Fellow in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

• Information about me at Heriot-Watt University (not completely up to date).
• Information about me at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
• Information about me at the University of Edinburgh. I used to be a Research Fellow in the Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation and the Human Communication Research Centre.

I am currently a Director of the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Dependable and Deplyable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CDT-RAS).

Research

My research is centred around automated planning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and cognitive robotics.

• My research overview page listing my research interests and projects.
• My publications page and my profile at various research sites: Google Scholar | ORCID | arXiv | Semantic Scholar | dblp.
• My talks and tutorials page.
• Some research-related events I have organised.
• A list of some PhD students I have supervised.

Teaching

I regularly teach courses in the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh Campus, usually at the Year 3 and MSc levels. In past academic years, I have been one of the lecturers for F29AI - Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents and F29SO - Software Engineering. I have also been the Coordinator for the 3rd Year Computer Science Group Project at the Edinburgh Campus.

Until March 2023, I was the Programme Director for the MSc Artificial Intelligence (1 Year) programme (September, January) and the MSc Artificial Intelligence (2 Year) programme (September, January). These roles have now been taken over by Alistair McConnell.

More information about my teaching activities, including 4th year honours project, MSc project, and Master Class supervision, can be found on my teaching page.

Personal

• The webpage of my wife, Mary Ellen Foster, a Senior Lecturer (in the UK sense) in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.
• The webpage of my brother, Mark, a Lecturer (in the Canadian sense) in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Mark is usually selling some great gaming stuff. Check out his games webpage or current eBay auctions for some good deals!

My webpage is currently being updated so please visit again soon.