Olov Engwall

Olov Engwall is a Professor in Speech Communication at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Division of Speech, Music, and Hearing within the Department of Intelligent Systems. He serves as Head of Studies for the Department and Track Director for the Computer Science specialization in the MSc program in Industrial Management and Engineering. His research focuses on social robotics, human-robot interaction, and robot-assisted language learning.

Engwall holds a PhD in Speech Communication from KTH (2002) and an MSc in Engineering Physics (1998). He has conducted research visits at INPG Grenoble (1999) and LORIA Nancy (2006). His roles include organizing international conferences like SLaTE 2017 and serving on technical committees for IEEE Speech and Language Technical.

Key research areas include culturally-aware robots (CIRILA project), NLP-based math tutoring, and robot-led second language conversation practice. He has pioneered projects like the ARTUR articulation tutor system and the ROBERT initiative for dyslexia support. His work bridges speech technology, education, and human-robot interaction with over 80 peer-reviewed publications.

Engwall supervises doctoral students in areas like robot-mediated learning and serves as examiner for multiple MSc engineering projects. He is a guest editor for Frontiers in Robotics and AI, focusing on culturally-aware robotics, and has contributed to journals like Computer, Speech and Language.