CV

Education

• University of Glasgow, UKOct 2023 - Mar 2027
  Doctor of Philosophy, Computing Science
• University of Glasgow, UKOct 2019 - Jun 2023
  Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering

Outreach

• "To Find God, Some People Are Turning to AI. What Happens Next Could Reshape Religion as We Know It."
  Interview for Popular Mechanics September 2025
• Real & Unreal Worlds: Cutting-Edge Tech in the Wild
  Invited Talk, Pint of Science, May 2025
• A Blessing or a Burden? Exploring Social Robots in the Real-World
  Invited Talk, Glasgow Tech Meetup, April 2025
• AI & You: Partners not Enemies?
  Invited Talk, University of Glasgow People & Organisational Development, December 2025
• Introduction to Social Robotics
  Workshop, smartStems, December 2023

Academic Service

• University of Glasgow, UKJun 2024 - Present
  Lead System Administrator, Glasgow Interactive Systems Cluster
• University of Glasgow, UKJun 2024 - Present
  Graduate Representative, Strategic Advisory Board, College of Science and Engineering

Reviewing Experience

• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)2026, 2025, 2024
• IEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)2026
• International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO)2025
• IEEE International Conference on Robot-Human Communication (RO-MAN)2025, 2024
• ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)2025
• International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)2025, 2024
• ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)2025, 2024

Contact

Andrew.Blair@glasgow.ac.uk LinkedIn Google Scholar GitHub