Attar, Nada
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 is in Ethics in AI, Computer Vision, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). She has been involved projects focused on enhancing automated vehicle takeover, climate change, and coastal resilience, as well as Ethics in AI like CIRCLE (Funded by Mozilla), aiming for responsible computing learning experiences.
Her academic research includes her work on gender classification accuracy using neural networks and the impact of distractions on driver attention. Dr. Attar has also contributed to studies examining biases and cognitive load prediction in visual tasks. Contributing to projects like Human-Automation Interaction and Computer Vision in Marine Science, she applies expertise in preprocessing, analysis, and classification.
She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts in Boston, focusing on user experience and performance optimization by measuring cognitive states. Her Master's in Computer Science from Tufts University delved into human-computer interaction. Dr. Attar further honed her expertise during her post-doctoral fellowship at the Schepens Eye Research Institute - Harvard Medical School. Here, she focused on driving simulation and analyzed eye movements.