Gabriel Skantze
Professor in Speech Technology
Department of Speech Music and Hearing
School of Computer Science and Communication
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Young Academy of Sweden
About me
Publications
Thesis
Contact
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)