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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 |
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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
Full CV