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I design the study, build the system, and ship the answer.

Five years of running human–robot experiments end-to-end: research design, full-stack prototypes, data pipelines, statistics, and the writing that makes it count. Comfortable owning a problem from literature to deployment.

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Experience

2021 — now

Doctoral Researcher

KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Speech, Music & Hearing

Designed and ran multi-party HRI studies with the Furhat platform; built the experiment software, ran the statistics, published at HRI, IVA, and CogSci.

2021 — now

Student Supervision

KTH · 10+ MSc thesis students

Scoped projects, mentored research design and writing across robotics and speech technology.

2018 — 2020

MSc Cognitive Science

University of Trento · CIMeC

Language & multimodal interaction track; thesis on computational models of word learning.

At a glance

Publications6 peer-reviewed
Research grant2M SEK · Digital Futures
Students supervised10+
LanguagesEN · SV · FA · IT

Toolbox

Experiment design Python Statistics / R Conversational AI LLM integration Furhat SDK Speech tech Data pipelines Scientific writing

Notes on the craft

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