Scholar
Gabriel Skantze
Google Scholar ID: iSzzd_MAAAAJ
Professor at KTH, PhD in Speech Communication and Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,776
H-index
26
i10-index
70
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- President Emeritus of SIGdial, the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue; Associate Editor for THRI (Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction) and the Human-Robot Interaction section of Frontiers in Robotics and AI; Action Editor for TACL (Transactions on Computational Linguistics); Alumni member of the Young Academy of Sweden.
Research Experience
- Post-doc at the University of Potsdam in 2008; Assistant Professor in 2013, Associate Professor in 2016, and Professor in 2018 at KTH; Co-founder and part-time Chief Scientist at Furhat Robotics.
Education
- MSc in Cognitive Science from Linköping University; PhD in Speech Communication at KTH in 2007, with a thesis titled 'Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems: Managing Uncertainty, Grounding and Miscommunication'; Docent in Speech Technology at KTH in 2012.
Background
- Research interests include studying human communication and developing computational models that allow computers and robots to have face-to-face conversations with humans. This involves both verbal and non-verbal (gaze, prosody, etc.) aspects of communication, focusing on phenomena such as turn-taking, feedback, joint attention, language learning, and grounding. The technology has direct applications in social robotics and can also enhance our understanding of the mechanisms behind human communication.
Miscellany
- Involved in several ongoing research projects, including modeling turn-taking in conversation, enabling conversational systems to think and speak simultaneously, modeling feedback and gaze in human-robot interaction, studying anthropomorphism in HRI and chatbots, and visual grounding in dialogue.
