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Oliver Lemon

@oliverlemon.bsky.social

Prof in CS; Academic Lead of National Robotarium; ELLIS Fellow; Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh. Postdocs at Stanford and Edinburgh. Research in NLP, dialogue, conversational AI, multimodality, robots, embodied AI, collaborative AI

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"Learnings" and "advancements", both common in AI papers

04.08.2025 07:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Interaction Lab - PhD position in Embodied AI PhD Position: Multimodal Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Interaction Lab and National Robotarium , Heriot-Watt University Collaboration with Toshib...

PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social - please contact me ASAP if you are interested !
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

18.06.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Full Professor position in AI/CS -- Deadline for applications 23rd June!

16.06.2025 09:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Prof position in CA/ AI -- Apply here ! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

30.05.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The regular submission deadline for SIGdial 2025 has now passed...

But we are still welcoming submissions through ACL Rolling Review ๐ŸŽ‰

ARR Commitment Deadline: June 6th

Acceptance notifications will be on June 20th, and then SIGdial will be held in Avignon, France: August 25th - 27th

02.06.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Playpen: An Environment for Exploring Learning Through Conversational Interaction Interaction between learner and feedback-giver has come into focus recently for post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs), through the use of reward models that judge the appropriateness of a mode...

Oh yes, here's the link to the actual pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08590

29.05.2025 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Title of the paper, with a colourful "playpen" logo

Title of the paper, with a colourful "playpen" logo

๐Ÿšจ New pre-print! (Well, new & much improved version in any case.) ๐Ÿšจ
If you're interested in LLM post-training techniques and in how to make LLMs better "language users", read this thread, introducing the "LM Playpen".

29.05.2025 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Prof position in CA/ AI -- Apply here ! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

30.05.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Chair of Artificial Intelligence An exciting opportunity to join the Department of Computer Science during an exciting period of growth as our Chair of Artificial Intelligence. Our campus is home to the National Robotarium, a world-l...

Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

20.05.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

All aspects of AI are in scope, including NLP, multimodality, embodied AI... DM me with questions!

24.05.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chair of Artificial Intelligence An exciting opportunity to join the Department of Computer Science during an exciting period of growth as our Chair of Artificial Intelligence. Our campus is home to the National Robotarium, a world-l...

Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

20.05.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Assistant Professor - Computer Sciences You will join the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. The department of Computer Science within the School is internationally renowned for its ...

We are hiring ! new faculty positions in AI, NLP, interactive robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

10.04.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Research Themes - The National Robotarium The National Robotarium is home to a diverse range of expertise in robotics and Artificial Intelligence.Researchers from Heriot-Watt University and The University of Edinburgh work across the followin...

In a nutshell โ€” hereโ€™s what we are working on at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and the National Robotarium - our Research Themes @heriotwattuni.bsky.social #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD thenationalrobotarium.com/research-the...

06.05.2025 13:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Interaction Lab - PhD position in Embodied AI PhD Position: Multimodal Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Interaction Lab and National Robotarium , Heriot-Watt University Collaboration with Toshib...

New - PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

15.04.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please can you post the arxiv link? Thanks!

16.04.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Interaction Lab - PhD position in Embodied AI PhD Position: Multimodal Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Interaction Lab and National Robotarium , Heriot-Watt University Collaboration with Toshib...

New - PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

15.04.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Assistant Professor - Computer Sciences You will join the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. The department of Computer Science within the School is internationally renowned for its ...

We are hiring ! new faculty positions in AI, NLP, interactive robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

10.04.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
SIGDIAL 2025 โ€“ 26th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

SIGDIAL 2025 will be in Avignon #NLProc #HRI #AI #ML 2025.sigdial.org

10.04.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Roboverse: unified simulation + dataset + benchmarking that supports many different robotics simulators including nvidia omniverse. One step closer to robotics getting its mmlu, maybe.

08.04.2025 02:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please share it within your circles! edin.ac/3DDQK1o

13.03.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Heriot-Watt Future Shapers Scholarship The Future Shapers scholarship at Heriot-Watt offers a range of high value scholarships to our most talented postgraduate candidates. We are looking for students who want to use research to create sol...

MSc scholarships available in AI, NLP, robotics. 50%-100% tuition fee discounts, #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social www.hw.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

13.03.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

UK Summer School in Robotics: generative AI for robotics, bioinspired robotics, HRI, verification and safety
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML#PhD
@heriotwattuni.bsky.social ukrss.site.hw.ac.uk

11.03.2025 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Travel the world with ELSA: our Mobility Fund in Action โ€“ ELSA

Hey ELLIS PhD students, need to travel but low on funds? Learn how ELSA can help with that: bit.ly/4kqjyel

#ELLISPhD #MobilityFund #SustainableAI #ProjectsBuildingOnELLIS

06.03.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1. Humans are incredibly flexible and able to fill the ability gaps in any systems faster than research will.

2. We want to be creative, solve problems, etc. We want assistants, not replacements.

16.02.2025 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Call for Papers and Demos @cvprconference.bsky.social: on topics such as streaming vision-language models, real-time activity understanding, grounding, ego-centric video understanding, language and robot learning. Contributions are encouraged to include a demo!

Link: varworkshop.github.io/calls/

03.03.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University Discover Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Interesting postdoc position in Edinburgh : "create a new framework for visual scene understanding through interactive, collaborative storytelling between humans and robots. ... support real-world applications in education, healthcare, and assistive technology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLY748/r...

25.02.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Travel and study in Europe: 2025 Schedule of ELLIS PhD Winter and Summer Schools announced The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

Registration is open for the following ELLIS Summer Schools:

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Unit Lausanne / @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social on ML & AI for Health

๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Unit Manchester on ML for Healthcare & Biology

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช @ellisunitjena.bsky.social on AI for Earth & Climate Sciences

Get links for more details and registration:

18.02.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

... And then you'll need to check the meeting summary to discover whether the AI faithfully represented your interests and opinions. Only efficient for those meetings which should have been emails ๐Ÿ˜”

18.02.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
UK Robotics Summer School 2025

Summer School in Robotics! Edinburgh, 2-6 June 2025. Topics: generative AI for robotics, bioinspired robotics, HRI, verification and safety #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML#PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
ukrss.site.hw.ac.uk

27.01.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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