Olov Engwall
Professor
Researcher
About me
Professor in Speech Communication
Track director for Computer Science for the MSc programme in Industrial Management and Engineering.
Research interests and projects:
| Research theme | Project | Collaborators | |
 | Langauge learning within the Nordic healthcare sector | Combining Linguistic resources with AI tutors for Role-play based language Education in the healthcare sector (CLAIRE), NordPlus 2026–2028 | Anna Endresen(PI) |
 | Children's reading development with an AI tutor | Human-Centered AI Support for Improving Young Learners’ Reading Skills, VR Research Environment 2026–30 | Olga Viberg (PI) |
 | Children's and adolescents' interactions with AI and social robots | Child Development in the Age of AI and Social Robots. WASP-HS Research Group 2025-2030 | + others |
 | Student (over)trust in LLM-driven social educational robots[radio interview] | Learning Interactions with hallucinating Anthropomorphic Robots (LIhAR). MAW2025-2027, PI | |
 | Students' self-regulation and critical thinking in interactions with ChatGPT | Think for Yourself: Adaptive AI Technologies for Learning with LLMs in STEM Education. EECS Small Visionary Project 2025-26 | |
 | NLP-based math tutoring | Digital FuturesDemonstrator project: Semi-automated math coaching– using ChatGPT to extend mattecoach | (PI) |
 | Interaction with social robots for language learning and mathematics tutoring of students with diverse backgrounds | CIRILA - Culturally Informed Robots in Learning Activities (WASP-HS, MAW2021-2024, PI) Robot-assisted learning for students with diverse language backgrounds(VR2023-2025) | Ali Reza Majlesi (PI VR) |
 | Guest editor for research topic in Frontiers in Robotics and AI | ||
 | Robot-assisted language learning | CORALL - COllaborative Robot-Assisted Language Learning (VR2017-2020, PI) | |
| Robot-assisted reading practice | ROBERT -Robot Enhanced Reading Training for Students with Dyslexia (Promobilia2019-2020, PI) | |
| Mobile second language learning | AI teacher for more efficient learning of the Swedish language (VINNOVA, 2019-2022) | |
| Computer-assisted language learning and pronunciation training | ARTUR- the Articulation tutor(VR 2004-2006) CALATEA - Computer animated language teachers (VR2009-2011, PI) ADEPT- Audiovisual detection of errors in pronunciation training (VR2006-2012, PI) | |
| Articulatory speech production modelling | Sten Ternström (PI) Oriol Guash (PI) | |
| Acoustic to articulatory inversion | ASPI- Audiovisual speech inversion(EU2005-2008) | Yves Laprie (PI) |
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:
- Katharina Wille, present
- Pablo Oliveras, present
- Elias Hedlin, present (assistant supervisor)
- Andreas Sebastian Kissmehl, present (assistant supervisor)
- Alireza Mahmoudi Kamelabad, present (assistant supervisor)
- Elisabeth Eir Cortes, present (assistant supervisor)
- Huanchen Cai, 2025 (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
Courses
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA239X), examiner
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA250X), examiner
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA231X), examiner
Degree Project in Computer Science and Industrial Management, first cycle (DA151X), examiner, teacher, course responsible
Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, Second Cycle (EA250X), examiner