Gabriel Skantze is an Associate Professor in Speech Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His primary research interests are in multi-modal real-time dialog modeling, speech communication, and human-robot interaction, and is currently leading several research projects in these areas. He is also co-founder of the company Furhat Robotics, which develops conversational social robots to be used in, for example, education, public spaces, and healthcare applications.