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Academic

Dr.

Reem A. Al-Baghli

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S02E1174

Assistant Professor at Kuwait University. Research in HCI, SE, Eye-Tracking, Wearables, and Ethics in Tech. Focused on UX, and system design for education and health. I lead teams toward ethical, viable solutions.

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

  • R. Albaghli, A. Gurnaney and N. Attar, "Detecting Bias in Refugee Perception using Face Swapping: An Empirical Eye-Tracking Study," 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2024, pp. 1-6, DOI:10.1109/ICHMS59971.2024.10555693
  • 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