Attar, Nada

Email

Preferred: nada.attar@sjsu.edu

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Education

  • Post Doctoral Research Fellow, 2017, Harvard university, Mass. Eye & Ear Institute, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Bowers Lab, Boston, MA
  • Ph.D. 2016 University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, Computer Science.
  • M.S. 2009 Tufts University, Medford, MA, Computer Science.
  • BSc. 2005 King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Computer Science

Bio

Dr. Nada Attar's research focuses on Computer Vision, Ethics in AI, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

She has been involved in projects such as eye-tracking in: automated vehicles; HCI for cognitive state measurement, gender and ethnic bias for social good; computer vision in climate change and coastal resilience preprocessing and object and contour detection, gender classification and pose estimation; and ethical AI models to investigate biases in datasets, algorithms, and user behavior. Her work includes the CIRCLE project, funded by Mozilla, which promotes responsible computing. 

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