Birger Moëll

A researcher, psychologist, and AI developer who loves people and strives to create meaningful connections through technology and understanding.

Academic Work

Bridging research and application to nurture knowledge that serves humanity and deepens our understanding of ourselves.

Selected Publications

2025

The order in speech disorder: a scoping review of state of the art machine learning methods for clinical speech classification

B Moell, FS Aronsson, P Östberg, J Beskow | arXiv preprint

Voice Cloning for Dysarthric Speech Synthesis: Addressing Data Scarcity in Speech-Language Pathology

B Moell, FS Aronsson | arXiv preprint

Large Language Models and Mathematical Reasoning Failures

J Boye, B Moell | arXiv preprint

Language Complexity Measurement as a Noisy Zero-Shot Proxy for Evaluating LLM Performance

B Moell, J Boye | arXiv preprint

2024

You don't understand me!: Comparing ASR results for L1 and L2 speakers of Swedish

R Cumbal, B Moell, J Lopes, O Engwall | arXiv preprint

Fake it to make it: Using synthetic data to remedy the data shortage in joint multimodal speech-and-gesture synthesis

S Mehta, A Deichler, J O'regan, B Moëll, J Beskow, GE Henter | Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Comparing the efficacy of GPT-4 and Chat-GPT in mental health care: A blind assessment of large language models for psychological support

B Moell | arXiv preprint

Evaluating Large Language Models with Human Feedback: Establishing a Swedish Benchmark

B Moell | arXiv preprint

Scoping Review-NLP and Gen-AI in Primary Care

D Sundemo, A Entezarjou, B Moell, FS Aronsson, R Arvidsson | OSF

Empathy and Algorithms: Comparing Written Psychological Advice by AI and Experts

E Zapel, E Lindsäter, B Moell, M Lekander, LF Föyen | OSF

2022

Speech data augmentation for improving phoneme transcriptions of aphasic speech using wav2vec 2.0 for the psst challenge

B Moëll, J O'Regan, S Mehta, A Kirkland, H Lameris, J Gustafsson | 4th RaPID Workshop

Spontaneous Neural HMM TTS with Prosodic Feature Modification

H Lameris, S Mehta, GE Henter, A Kirkland, B Moëll, J O'Regan | Fonetik 2022

2021

Multimodal capture of patient behaviour for improved detection of early dementia: clinical feasibility and preliminary results

P Jonell, B Moëll, K Håkansson, GE Henter, T Kucherenko, O Mikheeva | Frontiers in Computer Science

A framework for integrating gesture generation models into interactive conversational agents

R Nagy, T Kucherenko, B Moell, A Pereira, H Kjellström, U Bernardet | arXiv preprint

2017

Towards Bidirectional Brain-computer Interfaces that Use fNIRS and tDCS

SW Hincks, M DeBellis, EY Lee, R ten Brink, B Moëll, RJK Jacob | PhyCS

2015 & 2013

Living SMART—A randomized controlled trial of a guided online course teaching adults with ADHD or sub-clinical ADHD to use smartphones to structure their everyday life

B Moëll, L Kollberg, B Nasri, N Lindefors, V Kaldo | Internet Interventions

Living SMART: an Internet course for adults with ADHD

B Moëll | 2013

AI Education

Sharing knowledge and demystifying artificial intelligence through teaching, workshops, and consulting to empower the next generation of innovators.

Technical Training Expertise

I provide specialized workshops and training on advanced AI model development, covering the full spectrum from data preparation to deployment.

Model Architecture

  • Transformer architectures & attention mechanisms

  • Encoder-decoder vs. decoder-only models

  • Scaling laws and parameter efficiency

Training Methodologies

  • Pre-training and fine-tuning approaches

  • RLHF and instruction tuning techniques

  • Model merging and knowledge distillation

Dataset Engineering

  • Data curation and quality assessment

  • Synthetic data generation strategies

  • Domain-specific data preparation

Deployment & Integration

  • Efficient inference for production environments

  • Quantization and model optimization

  • API design and system integration

Teaching Highlights

5+

Years teaching AI at Konstfack arts university, introducing technical concepts to creative minds

100+

Workshops conducted for students, professionals, and researchers across various disciplines

20+

Organizations provided with strategic AI consulting and specialized training programs

Personal Life

Finding joy in the richness of relationships, the wisdom of nature, and the pursuit of a meaningful, connected existence.

Beyond my professional pursuits, I find fulfillment in a rich personal life deeply connected to family, nature, and continuous learning.

  • Licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in cognitive behavioral therapy

  • Lives in northwestern Uppland, Sweden with family

  • Father to a two-year-old son and a newborn baby

  • Caretaker of two cats named Pettson and Findus

  • Keeps heritage breed chickens and connects with nature

Let's Connect

I believe in the power of human connection. Reach out to explore collaborations, share ideas, or simply start a conversation.