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.
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Fellow, 2010-2013, Harvard College Observatory, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Laboratory of Visual Learning, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- 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, Human-AI Interaction,
and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). For four years, she served as the lead instructor
for the Google Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) at SJSU, where she helped historically under-represented students succeed and thrive
in STEM and computer science. She was awarded the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computing Challenge, a competitive grant given to only 15 teams across the United States. Along with
Mozilla team, she helped launch the Next Generation AI Developers Hackathon at SJSU,
promoting responsible computing and advancing AI development. Dr. Attar is involved
in the CIRCLE project, which fosters responsible computing through interdisciplinary learning.
Her research addresses gender and ethnic biases, anti-Muslim bigotry related to refugee
stereotyping, and gender biases in Large Language Models (LLMs). Additionally, her
work includes eye-tracking applications in automated vehicles, cognitive state measurement,
and ethical AI models aimed at investigating biases in datasets, algorithms, and user
behavior. Dr. Attar’s work also extends to computer vision applications for climate
change and coastal resilience, including preprocessing, object and contour detection,
gender classification, and pose estimation.