Helen Hastie is the Head of the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh and a RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow.
[2][3] Additionally in 2000, Hastie graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Ph.D. in "Modelling Prosodic and Dialogue Information for Automatic Speech Recognition".
[2] In September 2022, serving as the academic lead, Hastie aided in opening the Heriot-Watt University's National Robotarium.
Based in Edinburgh, the centre worth 22.4m GBP, was built for the focus of robotics and artificial intelligence research.
[4] In May 2023, she was appointed as the new Head of the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh,[5] taking over from Professor Jane Hillston in August of that same year.