Team Members
We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Interns to join the team (see openings) !
Head
Dr. Mohamed Khamis
Reader/Associate Professor and Team Lead
email: mohamed.khamis@glasgow.ac.uk
page: http://mkhamis.com/
PhD Students
Melvin Abraham.
PhD student, started July 2021
email: m.abraham.1@research.gla.ac.uk
page: <>
Melvin’s research is based on identifying and communicating security & privacy risks to a user within mixed reality. Looking specifically at how mixed reality can be leveraged, to communicate effectively when a users data is being collected or if a security risk is present.
keywords: Privacy, Virtual Reality, Usable Security
Cristina Fiani
PhD Student in the SOCIAL CDT programme, started Oct 2021
email: c.fiani.1@research.gla.ac.uk
page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-fiani/
Cristina’s research focuses on children and adolescents’ privacy and emotional safety with virtual reality (VR). One of the aims is to create a framework for parents to protect them and moderate the social VR experience without neglecting children and adolescents’ expression and self-development.
keywords: Virtual Reality, HCI, children and adolescents’ privacy
Noora AlSakar
PhD Student, started Oct 2021
email: n.alsakar.1@research.gla.ac.uk
page: https://sa.linkedin.com/in/noora-alsaqer-1a85b8bb
Recent advances in mobile devices led them to seamlessly support eye tracking. This brings a lot of advantages to interaction. However, eye movements also reveal sensitive attributes about the user. My research aims to investigate the privacy risks of eye tracking on handheld mobile devices and design protective measures using AR based solutions.
keywords: Privacy, Human centered security, Augmented reality.
Omar Namnakani
PhD Student, started Jan 2022
email: o.namnakani.1@research.gla.ac.uk
page: <>
My research focuses on the usability of the current gaze interaction techniques for the mobile contexts and scenarios. Particularly, I’m interested in exploring the concept of UI design to enhance eye gaze interaction on mobile devices.
keywords: Gaze Interaction, Mobile Devices, Eye Tracking, User Interfaces, Gaze Input, Usability
Hongxiang Yang
PhD Student, started Oct 2024
email: 2956717E@student.gla.ac.uk
page: <>
Hongxiang’s PhD studies user behavior in social virtual reality, and particularly how users leverage avatars to convey certain aspects of their identities.
keywords: Virtual Reality, Online Safety, HCI
Yasmine Elfares
PhD Student, started Jan 2025
email: 2956717E@student.gla.ac.uk
page: <>
Yasmine’s PhD investigates the use of eye tracking in the context of software engineering, both for analyzing the behavior of software developers and also enable novel interaction techniques that leverage eye gaze.
keywords: Eye Tracking, Gaze Interaction, Software Engineering
Visitors and Affiliates
Dr. Martin Schmitz
Affiliate - Postdoc at the Technical University of Darmstadt
email: martin@mschmitz.org
page: https://mschmitz.org/
I am a postdoctoral researcher and head of the HCI group at Telecooperation Lab led by Max Mühlhäuser. My current research interests include Mixed Reality, Haptics, and Fabrication. I have a background in computer science, psychology, and visual computing. I explored 3D-printed interfaces in my PhD (supervised by Max Mühlhäuser and Jürgen Steimle). If you are interested, please check my recent publications or contact me.
keywords: Mixed Reality, Haptics, Fabrication
Alina Stöver, M.Sc.
Visiting researcher - PhD student in Psychology at the Technical University of Darmstadt
email: stoever@psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de
page: https://www.arbing.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/fai/team_fai/team_fai_details_56768.de.jsp
Coming from psychology, Alina is looking at the human factors in privacy. Her research deals with user perceptions (e.g., personal privacy assistants) and the perspective of privacy responsible parties (e.g., website owners).
keywords: Usable Privacy, Human factors, Personal Privacy Assistants
Alumni members
Dr Florian Mathis - Former PhD student (2019-2023), now Postdoctoral Fellow at University of St. Gallen.
Dr Yasmeen Abdrabou - Former PhD student (2019-2023), now Postdoctoral Researcher at Lancaster University.
Dr Joseph O’Hagan - Former PhD student (2019-2023), now Lecturer at University of Glasgow.
Dr Norah Alotaibi - Former PhD student (2020-2024), now Assistant Professor at Taif University.
Dr Robin Bretin - Former PhD student (2020-2024).
Dr Habiba Farzand - Former PhD student (2021-2025).
Prof. Dr Karola Marky - Former postdoc (2021-2023), now Associate Professor at Ruhr University Bochum.
Dr Pejman Saeghe - Former postdoc (2022-2023), now Lecturer at University of Strathclyde.
Dr Md Shafiqul Islam - Former postdoc (2021-2024), now KTP Associate at Check4Cancer.
Dr Shaun Macdonald - Former postdoc (2022-2023), now Postdoc at University of Glasgow.
Dr Martina Ruocco - Former postdoc (2023-2024), now Senior ML Engineer at LRQA.
Dr Maheshya Weerasinghe - Former postdoc (2023-2024), now Assistant Professor at University of Primorska.
Mr Andras Bodrogai - Former Research Software Engineer (2023-2024), now Software Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Interns
Paul Bekaert, Summer 2021
Jolie Bonner, Summer 2021
Morgan Bierey, Summer 2021
Master and Bachelor/Honors Students
Marija Mumm, MSci, 2020/2021
Quentin Deligny, MSci, 2020/2021
Aiden Rafferty, Honours, 2020/2021
Calum Firth, Honours, 2020/2021
Asad Mahmood, Honours, 2020/2021
Stewart Brown, Honours, 2020/2021
Academic Collaborations
Aarhus University, Denmark
Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
École nationale de l’aviation civile (ENAC), France
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
German University in Cairo, Egypt
Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Science, Germany
Keio University, Japan
KU Leuven, Belgium
Lancaster University, UK
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Qatar University, Qatar
Tampere University, Finland
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Technical University of Vienna, Austria
University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Germany
University of Darmstadt, Germany
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
University of Edinburgh, UK
University of Manchester, UK
University of Michigan, USA
University of Oulu, Finland
University of Palermo, Italy
University of Primorska, Slovenia
University of Strathclyde, UK
University of Stuttgart, Germany
University of Vaasa, Finland
University of York, UK
Waseda University, Japan
Former interns, undergraduate and MSc students
Interns
Florian Mathis, Summer 2019
Nicolae Marton, Summer 2019
Master students
2024/2025, Mohamed Farzwan, Level 5 SE
2024, Haoran TANG, MSc
2024, Menzexi Lyu, MSc
2024, Binglong Wang, MSc
2023, Mark Turner, MSci
2023, Vasu Agarwal, MSc
2023, Lyuyang Qin, MSc
2023, Yukun Yuan, MSc
2023, Xiaoxie Na, MSc
2023, Zhao Wang, MSc
2023, Zihan Bai, MSc
2022, Penpicha Sinrattanavong, MSc
2022, Damilare Omomuwagun, MSc
2022, Raju Kalidindi Ramana Krishnam, MSc
2022, Kanyaphat Wiruchsilpa, MSc
2022 (December), Chenbing Li, MSc
2021-2022, Marija Mumm, Level 5 SE
2021-2022, Shao Wenyu, MSc
2021-2022, Arijeet Ghosh, MSc
2021-2022, Konstantinos Tsoumanis, MSc
2021-2022, Yazhuo Huang, MSc
2021-2022, Jingwen Feng, MSc
2021-2022, Zhaonian Xu, MSc
2021-2022, Chi Zhang, MSc
2021-2022, Yan Yan, MSc
2021-2022, Liuzhizi Yin, MSc
2021-2022, Yuzhe Cao, MSc
2021-2022, Shravanth Paturi, MSc
2021-2022, Aiden Meikle, MSci
2021, Quentin Deligny, MSci
2019-2020, Dominik Bladek, MSci
2020, Lucio Wang, MSc
2020, Wang Xinghe, MSc
2020 (May), Bladek Dominik, MSc
2019, Misahael Fernandez, MSc
2019, Kinshuk Bhardwaj, MSc
2019, Amol Meshram, MSc
2019, Tobias Jonathan Randall-Paley, MSc
2018-2019, Borislav Hristov, MSci
Level 4 Students
2024-2025, Cherp Ninelle, Level 4
2024-2025, Fallon Connor Kevin, Level 4
2022-2023, Suthakaran Sajan, Level 4
2022-2023, Karim Usmaan, Level 4
2022-2023, Buchanan Kyle, Level 4
2022-2023, Bradley Matilda, Level 4
2022-2023, Al Baiaty Suarez David, Level 4
2021-2022, Firth Calum, Level 4
2019-2020, James Park, Level 4
2019-2020, Andreas Klitis, Level 4