ali.mk 01Research

The science of learning to talk — with robots.

I'm a PhD researcher at KTH (Speech, Music & Hearing). I run empirical studies on how conversational robots support second-language learning — and what that reveals about human cognition.

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2026

Personalized Language Learning with an LLM Chatbot: Effects of Immediate vs. Delayed Corrective Feedback

Frontiers in Education
2025

Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Social Robots as Conversational Practice Companions in Language Learning

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2024

Conformity and Trust in Multi-party vs. Individual Human-Robot Interaction

ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '24)

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