Mohamed Khamis PhD LMU

Employment History
Director of Postgraduate Research Studes at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Since October 2023 Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Since January 2022 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. September 2018 - December 2021 Research Associate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany. November 2014 - August 2018 Research Associate at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany. April 2014 - November 2014 (8 months) Teaching & Research Assistant at the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt March 2012 - July 2013 (1 year 5 months) Research Assistant (Master student) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany. September 2011 - February 2012 (6 months) Junior Teaching Assistant at the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt September 2009 - June 2011 (1 year 9 months) Summer Intern at Etisalat, Egypt July 2010 - August 2010 (2 months) Junior Research Assistant (Bachelor student) at the University of Würzburg, Germany. March 2010 - May 2010 (3 months) Summer Intern at Etisalat, Egypt August 2009 - September 2009 (2 months)
Academic Honors
Best paper nominee at ISMAR 2024, October 2024 Best Full Paper award at INTERACT 2023, September 2023 Best Doctoral Student Paper award at INTERACT 2023, September 2023 Best paper award at COGAIN 2023, June 2023 Honorable mention award (top 5% submissions) at CHI 2022, March 2022 Best paper nominee at IEEE VR 2022 Best paper nominee at ISMAR 2021, October 2021 Honorable mention award (top 5% submissions) at MuC 2021, September 2021 Honorable mention award (top 5% submissions) at CHI 2020, March 2020 Honorable mention award (top 5% submissions) at MobileCHI 2018, September 2018 Honorable mention award (top 5% submissions) at CHI 2018, February 2018 Honorable mention award (top 5% submissions) at MUM 2017, November 2017 Honorable mention award (top 5% submissions) at CHI 2017, February 2017
Research Grants
08/2023 - 01/2024 Funder: FCDO: Ministerial department of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Title: SafeScreen: Monitor Detection in camera view. People: Mohamed Khamis (PI, 50% ownership), John Williamson (Co-I, 50% ownership) Awarded: £79,878
07/2023 - 02/2023 Funder: REPHRAIN: Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online Title: MetaSafeChild: Assessing Child Safety in the Metaverse and Developing Safety Enhancing Technologies People: Mohamed Khamis (PI, 34% ownership), Mark McGill (Co-I, 33% ownership), Mathieu Chollet (Co-I, 33% ownership) Awarded: £79,878
03/2023 - 04/2024 Funder: Meta Labs Title: A toolkit for identification and mitigation of XR dark patterns People: Mohamed Khamis (PI), Pejman Saeghe (Co-I), Mark McGill (Co-I) Awarded: $75,000
03/2022 - 08/2022 Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh Title: There is more to gaze data than fixations and saccades People: Mohamed Khamis, Yasmeen Abdrabou (PhD Student) Awarded: £12,535
01/2022 - 11/2022 Funder: REPHRAIN: Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online Title: PriXR: Protecting XR User and Bystander Privacy People: Mark McGill (PI, 50% ownership), Mohamed Khamis (Co-I, 50% ownership), Pejman Saeghe (PDRA), Cristina Fiani (PhD student) Awarded: £79,997
01/2022 - 11/2022 Funder: Facebook Reality Labs Title: Facilitating Parental Insight and Moderation for Safe Social VR People: Mohamed Khamis (PI, 50% ownership), Mark McGill (Co-I, 50% ownership), Pejman Saeghe (PDRA), Cristina Fiani (PhD student) Awarded: $75,000
11/2021 - 04/2023 Funder: PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Title: PT.HEAT: Preventing THErmal ATtacks People: Mohamed Khamis (PI, 100% ownership) Awarded: £177,075
04/2021 - 03/2022 Funder: National Cyber Securty Centre (NCSC) Title: Emergence of cybersecurity capability across Critical National infrastructure People: Mohamed Khamis (PI, 50% ownership), Tania Wallis (Research Co-I, 50% ownership) Awarded: £140,731 (£133,659 for UofG)
04/2021 - 03/2023 Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Title: TAPS: Assessing, Mitigating and Raising Awareness of the Security and Privacy Risks of Thermal Imaging (EP/V008870/1) People: Mohamed Khamis (PI, 100% ownership), Karola Marky (PDRA) Awarded: £262,119
03/2020 - 11/2021 Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh Title: Understanding and Mitigating the Security Risks of Thermal Imaging (Link) People: Mohamed Khamis (PI, 100% ownership) Awarded: £65,616
Other Peer-reviewed Research Grants
Rewards for Excellence prize from the University of Glasgow (£7,500), February 2021 John Robertson Bequest research grant (£1,500), March 2019 Google IoT Technology Research Award ($300), March 2016
Education

PhD in Media Informatics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany. 2018

M.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from the German University in Cairo (GUC) class of 2012

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from the German University in Cairo (GUC) class of 2011 Excellent with Honors

Professional Services
Funding Panels and Grant Reviewing
- Reviewed grant applications for the NSF: National Science Foundation, USA - Reviewed grant applications for the DFG: German Research Foundation, Germany - Reviewed for the NWO: Dutch Research Council, Netherlands - Reviewed for ETH Zurich's internal funding schemes. - Member of the Peer Review College of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - Member of the Peer Review College of the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) - Associate Member of EPSRC College - Academic Adviser for the UK's Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
PhD Examination and Reviewing
External PhD examiner (Aston University, UK) Dr Jacob Sharp, 2024 – Supervised by Dr Ulysses Bernardet. External PhD examiner (King's College London, UK) Dr Xiao Zhan, 2024 – Supervised by Prof. Jose Such. External PhD examiner (University of Alberta, Canada) Dr Jennifer Bertrand, 2023 – Supervised by Prof. Craig Chapman. External PhD reviewer (University of Oulu, Finland) Dr Andy Alorwu 2023 – Supervised by Prof. Simo Hosio. External PhD examiner (Lancaster University, UK) Dr Ludwig Sidenmark, 2022 Internal PhD examiner (University of Glasgow) Dr Joseph Kaberuka, 2022 External PhD examiner (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) Dr Lauren S. Ferro, 2022 Internal PhD examiner (University of Glasgow) Dr Rawan Baalous, 2021 Internal PhD examiner (University of Glasgow) Dr Saad Altamimi, 2021 Internal PhD examiner (University of Glasgow) Dr Jamie Ferguson, 2020 Internal PhD examiner (University of Glasgow) Dr Ahmed Eidhah A Alzahrani, 2019
Organizing Committees
General Chair: PerDis 2019, ETRA 2024, ETRA 2025 Technical Program Chair: ETRA 2022, ETRA 2023 Sponsorship and Industry Track Chair: ETRA 2020, ETRA 2021 Demos Chair: MUM 2018 Proceedings Chair: PerDis 2017 Workshop Organizer: PETMEI 2016, ArabHCI 2018, iHDI 2019, Human-centered Cyber Security 2019, XR 2020, EyeSec '21, VR4Sec '21, SSPXR '22, Shaping the Future: Developing Principles for Policy Recommendations for Responsible Innovation in Virtual Worlds (CHI 2024).
Editorial Boards
International Journal on Human-Computer Studies since 2020 Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) since 2021
Guest Editor
Special issue on Pervasive Displays in Springer journal on Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Special issue on HCI in the Arab World in the ACM Interactions Magazine
Program Committees
CHI Papers (AC): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 IFIP TC13 Interact (AC for Full Papers): 2021 CHI Best Papers Committee: 2020 CHI Student Research Competition (AC): 2020 CHI LBW (AC): 2018 PerDis: 2017, 2018 MUM: 2016, 2017, 2018 PETMEI: 2016, 2018 ET4S: 2018 Mensch-und-Computer: 2015, 2017, 2018 AutoUI (WIP and Interactive demos): 2015
Journal Reviewing
IMWUT: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security: 2017, 2018, 2019 ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction: 2019, 2020 ACM Computing Surveys: 2016 International Journal of Geographical Information: 2017 International Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work: 2020 IJCIM: 2015
Conference Reviewing
CHI (Papers): 2016, 2017 (Excellent Review), 2018 (Excellent Review), 2019 (AC), 2020 (AC), 2021 (AC), 2022 (AC), 2023, 2024 CHI (Late Breaking Work): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (AC) CHI (alt.chi): 2016, 2017 UIST (Papers): 2017, 2018, 2020 ACM MM (Papers): 2017 CHI PLAY (Papers): 2017 ETRA (Papers): 2018 ICMI (Papers): 2017 UbiComp (Papers): 2016 MobileHCI (Papers): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 ISWC (Papers): 2016 DIS (Papers): 2016, 2017 HRI (Papers): 2017, 2018 ISS (Papers): 2020 NordiCHI (Papers): 2016, 2018, 2020 Augmented Human (Papers): 2016 MUM (Papers,Posters): 2015, 2016, 2017 IoT (Posters): 2016 ISMAR (Papers): 2014 COGAIN: 2017
Student Volunteering
PerDis: 2015
Other Memberships
Professional Membership at the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Member of Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Founding member of Cairo ACM SIGCHI Chapter.
Guest Lectures, Invited talk s and Tutorials
Keynote on "User-centered Security, Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse" in IEEE VR 2023 Workshop on Security and Privacy for Immersive Virtual Worlds (Secure Immersive Worlds). Delivered online, 26/03/2023. Keynote on "Security and Privacy in the 21st Century" at the IndiaHCI 2020 Workshop on Privacy and the Pandemic in South Asia: Work From Home Culture, Class and Domestic Space. Delivered online, 06/11/2020. Keynote on "The Interplay between Privacy, Security and Eye Tracking in the Wild: Opportunities and Challenges" at the ECCV 2020 Workshop on Open Eyes: Eye Gaze in AR, VR, and in the Wild. Delivered online, 23/08/2020. Invited talk on "Safeguarding children in the metaverse" at the REPHRAIN all-hands meeting in Edinburgh, UK, 10/05/2024. Invited talk on "Protecting Users in Virtual Realms: Security, Privacy, and Safety in the Metaverse" in Durham University, UK, 30/04/2024. Invited talk on "Automated Embodied Moderation for Immersive Virtual Environments" at the REPHRAIN all-hands meeting in King's College London, UK, 08/09/2023. Invited talk on "Novel Security, Privacy and Safety Risks in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing" in the SPRITE+ Conference in Belfast, UK, 29/06/2023. Invited instructor at the post CHI 2023 Summer School on Usable Privacy and Security (1 week), organized by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany, 05/2023. Invited talk in FutureScot's Cyber Security 2023 Conference, Scotland's largest public sector cyber event, 27/02/2023. Invited talk on "Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing" at Kore University of Enna, Italy, 20/10/2022. Invited talk on "Security, Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse" at Aarhus University, Denmark, 14/10/2022. Invited talk on "Extended Reality and User-centered Security, Privacy and Safety" in SPRITE+ event on Trust, Identity, Privacy, Safety and Security in the Metaverse. Recording available online, 04/10/2022. Invited talk on "Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing" at Aalto University, Finland, 05/09/2022. Invited lecture on "Human-centered Security". Kore University of Enna, Italy (delivered online), 24/05/2022. Invited talk on "Virtual Reality and User-Centered Security". Edify Fireside Chat. Recording available online, 27/01/2022. Invited talk on "Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing". University of Leicester, UK. Delivered online. Recording available online, 08/01/2022. Invited talk on "XR Safety and Privacy: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" at the XR Safety week. Delivered on AltSpace VR, 08/12/2021. Invited talk on "Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing". King's College London, UK. Delivered online, 28/09/2021. Invited talk on Human-centered Security to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) Portal, 01/07/2021. Invited talk on Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing. University of Lisbon, Portugal. Delivered online due to COVID-19, 27/04/2021. Invited speaker to Scot-Secure 2021, the 7th annual cyber security for business conference. Delivered online due to COVID-19. Recording available online, 25/03/2021. Invited talk on Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing. University of Leicester, UK. Delivered online due to COVID-19, 26/03/2021. Invited talk on Human-centered Security. CairoCHI, Egypt's ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter. Delivered online due to COVID-19, 22/07/2020. Invited talk on Privacy Respecting Ubiquitous Systems. University of Edinburgh, UK, 31/01/2019. Gaze-based Interaction on Public Displays. Invited talk at workshop on Wave, Touch, Look! Novel interaction modalities for large public displays. University of Palermo, Italy, 10/11/2016. Gaze-based Interaction for Pervasive Displays. Invited talk at the "Current state and future of gaze interaction" Symposium. Technical University of Berlin, Germany, 28/09/2016. Guest Lecture on Gaze-based Interaction at the Ubiquitous Interactive Systems workshop -- University of Stuttgart, Germany, 17/01/2016. Invited talk on HCI Applications of Eye Tracking at the IoT research colloquium -- German University in Cairo, Egypt, 17/12/2015.
Human Languages
Arabic
Native Proficiency
English
Full Professional Proficiency (ILR scale) - 114/120 in TOEFL iBT
German
Limited working proficiency (ILR scale) - Level C1
French
Elementary proficiency (ILR scale)