Dr Angus Addlesee is an Applied Scientist working on conversational AI at Amazon Alexa. His work focuses on building natural, scalable dialogue systems, with experience spanning large language models, spoken dialogue systems, multimodal interaction, and human-AI collaboration.

Angus holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, where his research explored conversational agents, human-robot interaction, and socially aware dialogue. He has published in leading academic venues and regularly bridges research and real-world deployment, translating theory into production-ready conversational systems used by millions of users.

Passionate about making AI more useful, usable, and human-centred, Angus enjoys sharing practical insights from industry and academia on how conversational AI is evolving, and where it still falls short.