Olov Engwall

Professor

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolanhttps://www.kth.se/profile/engwall

Arbetar vid

TAL, MUSIK OCH HÖRSEL

Enhetens adress

Lindstedtsvägen 24

E-post

engwall@kth.se

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Om mig

Professor in Speech Communication

Head director of Studies at the Department of Intelligent Systems
Track director for Computer Science for the MSc programme in Industrial Management and Engineering.

Research interests and projects:

Research area	Project	Collaborators
Student (over)trust in LLM-driven social educational robots	Learning Interactions with halllucinating Anthropomorphic Robots (LIhAR). MAW 2025-2027, PI	Olga Viberg Katie Winkle
NLP-based math tutoring	Digital Futures Demonstrator project: Semi-automated math coaching –using NLP to extend mattecoach	Stefan Hrastinski (PI) Pablo Oliveras Malin Jansson
Interaction with social robots for language learning and mathematics tutoring of students with diverse backgrounds	CIRILA - Culturally Informed Robots in Learning Activities (WASP-HS, MAW 2021-2024, PI) Robot-assisted learning for students with diverse language backgrounds (VR 2023-2025)	Olga Viberg, Iolanda Leite Ali Reza Majlesi (PI VR) Silvia Kunitz Gustav Lymer Catrin Norrby Ronald Cumbal Pablo Oliveras
Culturally and contextually aware robots	Guest editor for research topic in Frontiers in Robotics and AI	Takayuki Kanda Matthias Rehm Anotio Sgorbissa Kerstin Sophie Haring
Robot-assisted language learning	CORALL - COllaborative Robot-Assisted Language Learning (VR 2017-2020, PI)	José Lopes Ronald Cumbal Gabriel Skantze
Robot-assisted reading practice	ROBERT -Robot Enhanced Reading Training for Students with Dyslexia (Promobilia 2019-2020, PI)	Dyslexiförbundet
Mobile second language learning	AI teacher for more efficient learning of the Swedish language (VINNOVA, 2019-2022)	Lingio Johan Boye Ronald Cumbal
Computer-assisted language learning and pronunciation training	ARTUR- the Articulation tutor (VR 2004-2006) CALATEA - Computer animated language teachers (VR 2009-2011, PI) ADEPT - Audiovisual detection of errors in pronunciation training (VR 2006-2012, PI)	Hedvig Kjellström Olle Bälter Preben Wik Sherif Abdou
Articulatory speech production modelling	EUNISON - Unified domain synthesis (EU 2013-2016)	Sten Ternström (PI) Oriol Guash (PI) Marc Arnela Saeed Dabbaghchian
Acoustic to articulatory inversion	ASPI - Audiovisual speech inversion (EU 2005-2008)	Yves Laprie (PI) Athanasios Katsamanis Petros Maragos, G. Ananthakrishnan

Recent presentations:

Furhat Robotics Conference 29 April 2025

Organized conferences:

	SLaTE 2017: ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education	Chair
	Interspeech 2017	Organization committee, Workshops, Area chair
	IS ADEPT 2012: International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training	Chair
	AVSP 2011: International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing	Organization committee

Doctoral students & Postdocs:

Pablo Oliveras, present
Alireza Mahmoudi Kamelabad, present (assistant supervisor)
Huanchen Cai, present (assistant supervisor)
Elisabeth Eir Cortes, present (assistant supervisor)
Ronald Cumbal, 2024
Saeed Dabbaghchian, 2018
Christos Koniaris, 2012
G. Ananthakrishnan, 2012
Preben Wik, 2011 (assistant supervisor)
Kathy Tian, Postdoc 2023

Short background:

Guest Editor Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Culturally and contextually aware robots
Editor Computer, Speech and Language
Post-doc Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2003
PhD Speech Communication KTH, 2002
MSc Engineering Physics KTH,1998
Research visits INPG Grenoble (1999), LORIA Nancy (2006)
IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee 2009-2012
CV October 2023