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Gabriel Skantze
Professor in Speech Technology
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Department of Speech Music and Hearing
School of Computer Science and Communication
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Young Academy of Sweden |
Curriculum Vitae
Born July 13, 1975
Working experience
- Professor, KTH, Stockholm (2018-)
- Associate Professor, KTH, Stockholm (2016-2018)
- Assistant Professor, KTH, Stockholm (2013-2016)
- Senior Researcher, KTH, Stockholm (2009-2013)
- Post-doc, Universität Potsdam, Germany (2008)
- PhD student, KTH, Stockholm (2002-2007)
- Voice User Interface Designer, Pipebeach AB, Stockholm (2000-2002)
Academic degrees
- Docent, Speech Technology, KTH, Stockholm (2012)
- Ph.D., Speech Communication, KTH, Stockholm (2007)
- M.Sc., Cognitive Science, Linköping University (2000)
Awards
- Nominated for Best Paper Award at HRI 2017, Vienna
- Best Paper Award at ICSR (International Conference on Social Robotics) 2016, Kansas City
- Nominated for Outstanding Paper Award at ICMI 2015, Seattle
- Two nominations for Best Paper Award at SIGdial 2013, Metz
- Robotdalen Innovation Award (2nd prize) 2013
- Outstanding Demo Award at ICMI 2012
- Best Paper Award at SIGdial 2010
Commissions of trust
- Member of the Young Academy of Sweden
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for SigDial
Appropriated grants (main applicant)
- The Swedish Research Council (VR-HS): Coordination of attention and turn-taking in situated interaction. (4.5 MSEK). 2014-2018.
- The Swedish Research Council (VR-NT): Online learning of turn-taking behaviour in spoken human-robot interaction. (2.6 MSEK). 2016-2018.
- The Swedish Research Council (VR-NT): Incremental processing in multi-modal conversational systems. (3.2 MSEK). 2012-2015.
- DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) grant for a post-doc position in Potsdam. 2008.
Appropriated grants (co-applicant)
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF): COIN: Co-adaptive human-robot interactive systems. (33 MSEK). 2016-2021.
- Horizon 2020 (EU): BabyRobot 2016-2018.
- The seventh framework programme (EU): Spoken Dialogue Analytics (SpeDial). 2014-2015.
- KTH/CSC small visionary projects: Interactive articulated robot head for communication and perception.. 2012.
- The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond): The prosody of conversation. 2010-2013.
- The seventh framework programme (EU): Interactive Urban Robot (IURO). 2010-2012
- Strategic Research Area ICT (Swedish Government): Situated Audio-Visual Interaction with Robots (SAVIR). 2009-
- The Swedish Research Council (VR NT): Modelling utterance generation in conversational dialogue systems. 2008-2010.
Ongoing doctoral supervision
- Martin Johansson, (2012-), Main supervisor
- Vanya Avramova (2016-), Main supervisor
- Todd Shore (2016-), Main supervisor
- Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos (2016-), Co-supervisor
Completed doctoral supervision
- Raveesh Meena (2011-2016), Main supervisor
- Jana Götze (2011-2016), Co-supervisor
Organizer
- Tutorial chair of Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm
- Area chair (Dialog) of Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm
- Area chair (Dialog) of EACL 2017 in Valencia
- Workshop co-chair of ICMI 2016 in Tokyo
- General co-chair of SigDial 2015 in Prague
- Guest editor for Computer Speech and Language: Special Issue on Speech and Language for Interactive Robots, 2015
- Tutorial on Dialog models and Dialog phenomena together with Nigel Ward at Interspeech 2015 in Dresden
- Tutorial on Spoken human-robot interaction, Ro-Man 2014
- SemDial (Semantics and Pragmatics in Dialogue), Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
Reviewer
- ACL (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
- EACL (Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
- Interspeech
- SIGdial (Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue)
- SemDial (Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue)
- IWSDS (International Workshop Series on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology)
- EMNLP (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)
- ICMI (International Conference on Multi-modal Interaction)
- IVA (Intelligent Virtual Agents)
- SLT (Spoken Language Technology)
- Coling (Computational Linguistics)
- Ro-Man (International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication)
- IUI (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces)
- SLTC (Swedish Language Technology Conference)
Teaching
- Multimodal interaction and interfaces (KTH Master's-level course, DT2140), 7.5 ECTS credits (Course responsible, Lecturer, Examiner)
- Artificial Intelligence (KTH Master's-level course, Lecturer)
- Speech Technology (KTH Master's-level course), 7.5 ECTS credits (Lecturer)
- Dialogue Systems (Graduate School of Language Technology, PhD-level course), 7.5 ECTS credits (Course designer, Lecturer, Examiner)