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Academic

Dr.

Reem A. Al-Baghli

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S02E1174

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D. Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder 2018
M.S. Computer Engineering Kuwait University 2007
B.S. Computer Engineering Kuwait University 2000

 

Selected Publications

  • Reem Al-Baghli, Akshay Sunil Gurnaney*, and Nada Attar, Detecting Bias in Refugee Perception 
    using Face Swapping: An Empirical Eye-Tracking Study, 4th IEEE International Conference on 
    Human-Machine Systems, Accepted, 2024
  • Reem Albaghli, Chaz Chang, Sarah Almahmeed, and Nada Attar. 2022. Untraining Ethnocentric 
    Biases about Gender Roles: A Preliminary Empirical Study Presenting Art as Stimulus. In Proceedings 
    of Mensch und Computer 2022 (MuC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 
    376–381. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543758.3547543
  • Reem Albaghli, Yaman Jandali, Sarah Almahmid, Nada Attar. Leveraging Initial Cognitive Load to 
    Predict User Response to Complex Visual Tasks. (2022). In proceedings of the 8 th World Congress 
    on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Sciences (EECSS’22) Prague, Czech Republic. 
    Paper No. MHCI 103. DOI: 10.11159/mhci22.103
  • Albaghli, Reem. 2018, A Framework to Design and Evaluate Wearable Interactive Systems for Health, 
    PhD Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder. Corpus ID: 150142746.
  • Reem Albaghli, Urooj Raja, and Kenneth M. Anderson, “An Innovative Approach to Better Cardiac 
    Health Through Wearable Technology ,” Proc. 2017 ACM Int. Jt. Conf. CHI’17 Adjun., 2017.
  • Reem Albaghli and Kenneth M. Anderson. 2016. A vision for heart rate health through wearables. In 
    Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous 
    Computing: Adjunct (UbiComp '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1101-1105.
  • Halley Profita, Reem Albaghli, Leah Findlater, Paul Jaeger,and Shaun K. Kane. 2016. The AT Effect: 
    How Disability Affects the Perceived Social Acceptability of Head-Mounted Display Use. In 
    Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16).
     

Work Experience

Academic Experience
Institution Designation Year/Period
University of Colorado Boulder Teaching Assistant 2015
Kuwait University Teaching Assistant 2011-20014
Kuwait University Teaching Assistant 2004-2006

 

Industry Experience
Organization Designation Year/Period
UNFCCC, Bonn Germany IT support services consultant 2008
Kuwait Institution for Scientific Research Analysis Programmer 2000-2004

 

Community Service

Service Activities

COLLEGE COMMITTEES
  • Committee chair of: CPEs ACM student association and Cultural and social Computer Eng Dept.
  • Committee member of COEP-Mitigation Strategy and vision for Covid19-crisis April-2020-June-2020.
  • Member of E-Learning committee, College of Engineering, Kuwait University, June-2020-2023.
  • Heading and training numerous social events and workshops for students and employees.
    PROJECTS 
  • Establish Human Centered Computing and Eyetracking Lab for UX research in Kuwait University.
  • General chair of the Future Makers Forum 2023 at Kuwait University.
  • Managing research projects of master's degree level thesis.
  • Directing design and budget plan for 3-year research grant.
     
Other

Recent Professional Development Activities

 

COMPUTER LANGUAGES 

  • C++, Pascal, Python, JavaScript, Prolog, HTML, Swift.


RESEARCH & TECH PROJECTS 

  • AR children game for local curriculums of the ministry of education, Kuwait.
  • Speech pathology training system for children with hearing impairment.
  • Smart storytelling system for children.
  • Arabic reading game, with a focus on children with Dyslexia.
    WORKSHOPS
  • Critical thinking and presentation skills workshops.
  • Course Instructor and Lecturer for KFAS's Chief Science Officer initiative CSO program 2022.
  • Organizer, speaker: Committee member of COEP-Mitigation Strategy and vision for COVID19-
  • education crisis.
  • Training Faculty and staff for Covid mitigation plan.
  • Attendee: Organizer, speaker, CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women program, Chicago, April 2019.


OTHER PROJECTS AND INTERESTS

  • Children book author, critical thinking workshops for young adults and children, painter