Curriculum vitæ

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Five years designing and shipping conversational AI — dialogue design, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and three systems deployed with real users.

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Publications 6 peer-reviewed

Systems deployed 3 · with real users

Research Grant 2M SEK · Digital Futures

Students supervised 10+

Toolbox

Conversational AILLM integrationPrompt engineeringEvaluation frameworksPythonTypeScript / ReactFurhat SDKExperiment designStatistics / RScientific writing

Experience

2021 — now

Doctoral Researcher — Conversational AI & Human-Robot Interaction

KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Stockholm, Sweden

Wrote and won a competitive 2,000,000 SEK grant (Digital Futures) to design and deliver a human-AI interaction prototype for Swedish-language learning, deployed in SFI (Swedish for Immigrants) classrooms in Stockholm

Leading a two-year applied AI project — from proposal, experiment design, and data collection through to a working conversational AI system for adult migrant learners

Directed and mentored 8 master's and 3 bachelor's thesis students across 3 universities

Built and ran user research studies (participatory design, usability testing) with real end users to shape product decisions

2020 — 2021

Associate Researcher

Furhat Robotics · Stockholm, Sweden

Applied research on multimodal language learning with the Furhat social robot platform, as part of an EU Horizon 2020-funded research fellowship (e-LADDA)

Education

2021 — now

Ph.D. in Computer Science

KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Stockholm, Sweden

2018 — 2020

M.Sc. in Cognitive Science (Language and Multimodal Interaction)

University of Trento · Rovereto, Italy

2017 — 2018

M.A. in Human-Computer Interaction

University of Trento · Trento, Italy

2011 — 2017

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Shahid Beheshti University & Yazd University · Tehran & Yazd, Iran

Selected publications & awards

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

Frontiers in Education (2026)

Digital Futures Demonstrator Project Grant

2,000,000 SEK — PI-level grant writing and delivery

Sustainability Award

ACM/IEEE HRI '25