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 explores ethical considerations, including gender and ethnic biases,
anti-Muslim bigotry in refugee stereotyping, and gender biases in Large Language Models
(LLMs). She also focuses on visual dataset privacy through steganography and develops
ethical AI models to investigate biases in datasets, algorithms, and user behavior.
Her work also includes eye-tracking applications in automated vehicles, cognitive state measurement. Dr. Attar’s work also extends to computer vision applications for climate change and coastal resilience, including preprocessing, object and contour detection.