Khiet Truong

Associate professor

paralinguistics
spoken conversational ai
human-agent communication

Radboud University, Centre for Language Studies
Erasmusbuilding, room E7.19
Nijmegen, the Netherlands

University of Twente, Human Media Interaction
Enschede, the Netherlands

PhD students supervising/supervised

  • Rong Li, PhD student VoCS (daily supervisor, Sep 2025 - …)
  • Dragos Balan, PhD student HOSAN/MediSpeech (daily co-supervisor, Sep 2023 - …)
  • Ella Velner, PhD student Child-Robot-Media-Interaction (daily supervisor, Oct 2019 - …)
  • Michel Jansen, PhD student 4TU Humans and Technology (co-promotor and daily supervisor, Oct 2017 - July 2025)
  • Deniece Nazareth, PhD student eScience project Emotion recognition in dementia (co-promotor and daily co-supervisor, May 2017 - Jan 2026)
  • Roelof de Vries, PhD student COMMIT P3 Sensor-based engagement for improved health (co-promotor and daily supervisor, May 2013 - Nov 2018)
  • Cristina Zaga, PhD student EU FP7 SQUIRREL (co-promotor and daily supervisor, Oct 2014 - March 2021)
  • Jaebok Kim, PhD student EU FP7 SQUIRREL (co-promotor and daily supervisor, July 2014 - July 2018)

PhD dissertation committee

Assessment committee

  • Jose David Vargas Quiros (2024). Towards the automatic assessment of social experience in in-the-wild mingling settings. (7 October 2024, TU Delft)
  • Wei Xue (2023). Measuring the intelligibility of pathological speech through subjective and objective procedures. (21 March 2023, Radboud University)
  • Phoebe Mui (2019). The many faces of smiling: Social and cultural factors in the display and perception of smiles. (18 Dec 2019, Tilburg University)
  • Juliane Schmidt Kirsch (2018). Listening for the WHAT and the HOW: Older adults’ processing of semantic and affective information in speech. (5 July 2018, Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Selma Yilmazyildiz (2017). Semantic Free Affective Speech Framework For Social Human-Robot Interaction. (13 Sep 2017, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Opposition

  • Mario Ganzeboom (2026). Challenging Speech Training in Neurological Patients by Interactive Gaming . (30 January 2026, Radboud University)
  • Chitralekha Bhat (2025). Automatic Recognition and Assessment of Dysarthric Speech. (24 March 2025, Radboud University) -Luke Meyer (2024). Investigating the feasibility of a NAO robot in audiology. (20 November 2024, University of Groningen)
  • Alban Voppel (2022). Quantified speech as a marker: computational linguistics in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. (31 January 2022, University of Groningen, PhD Examining Committee)