Bio
Zaher is a research data specialist, currently working at the Chancellery of The University of Melbourne in Australia. He is part of a team of brilliant minds working to uplift digital research capabilities and strengthen communities of practice at the university. The team is called Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP)
Before his current position, he was for five years the lead software engineer at the Interaction Design Lab (IDL) and Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces (SocialNUI) at the University of Melbourne. He was mainly responsible for building sophisticated, innovative and custom software to support research at the centre.
In 2011, right after finishing his undergraduate degree. He joined IDscan Biometrics when it was newly formed. He was appointed as AI team leader. He led the effort to form a team of software engineers with an AI background to build innovative document scanning and biometrics solutions. His team achieved outstanding results and delivered most of IDscan’s core technologies. IDscan was later acquired by GBG Plc in 2016.
Zaher holds a bachelor degree in computer science with a major in artificial intelligence from The University of Aleppo, Syria, and masters degree from The University of Melbourne, Australia. He also attended as student exchange the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and Latrobe University, Australia.
Zaher graduated as the highest ranking student at the University of Aleppo and He received four high academic achievement awards during his undergraduate years.
Zaher is proud recipient of three undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships that enabled him to study abroad: 1- Endeavour Scholarship (Australia), 2- Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (Sweden). 3- AlThuraya Scholarship (Australia).
Off the digital grid, I enjoy spending quality time with family and friends.
- Domains/Research Interests
Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Image/Video Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Projection Mapping.
- ADDRESSThe University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC
- E-MAILzjoukhadar (at) unimelb (dot) edu (dot) au
Publications
School’s Back: Scaffolding Reminiscence in Social Virtual Reality with Older Adults2020
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Steven Baker, Ryan Kelly, Jenny Waycott, Romina Carrasco, Roger Bell, Zaher Joukhadar, Thuong Hoang, Elizabeth Ozanne, Frank Vetere
Biometric Mirror: Exploring Ethical Opinions towards Facial Analysis and Automated Decision-Making2019
Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Niels Wouters, Ryan Kelly, Eduardo Velloso, Katrin Wolf, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Joshua Newn, Zaher Joukhadar, Frank Vetere
What’s Happening at that Hip?: Evaluating an On-body Projection based Augmented Reality System for Physiotherapy Classroom2019
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Thuong Hoang, Zaher Joukhadar, Martin N Reinoso, Frank Vetere, David Kelly, Louisa Remedios
Augmented reality learning environment for physiotherapy education2018
Physical Therapy Reviews
David Kelly, Thuong N Hoang, Martin Reinoso, Zaher Joukhadar, Tamara Clements, Frank Vetere
Kinecting with orangutans: Zoo visitors’ empathetic responses to animals? use of interactive technology2017
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sarah Webber, Marcus Carter, Sally Sherwen, Wally Smith, Zaher Joukhadar, Frank Vetere
Augmented studio: projection mapping on moving body for physiotherapy education2017
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Thuong Hoang, Martin Reinoso, Zaher Joukhadar, Frank Vetere, David Kelly
Supporting animal welfare with automatic tracking of giraffes with thermal cameras2017
Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
Ruining Dong, Marcus Carter, Wally Smith, Zaher Joukhadar, Sally Sherwen, Alan Smith
Usage of an augmented reality system to facilitate dynamic anatomical understanding for physiotherapy students
2017
Australian Physiotherapy Association Conference
(2017) Kelly, D, Hoang, T, Joukhadar, Z, Reinoso, M, Clements, T & Vetere, F
E-Health as an Enabler of Social Inclusion2017
Innovative ICT-enabled Services and Social Inclusion (Routledge)
K Clarke, A Lodders, R Garnett, A Holland, R Marino, Z Joukhadar
Portfolio
In the News
Biometric Mirror presented at the World Bank and World Engineers Convention
Biometric Mirror a stand-out at World Economic Forum Summer Davos
Augmented Studio presented at Melbourne Knowledge Week
What our AI thought of us, at Melbourne Knowledge Week 2019
HCI Lab Open House
Experiment has zoo’s orang-utans seeing red
Orangutans in Melbourne Zoo playing interactive videogames using Xbox technology
Scientists are using Xbox Kinect to let orangutans play video games
VIDEO: Tech savvy orangutans master computer games at Melbourne Zoo
Orangutans Learning To Play Xbox To Fight Boredom In Zoo
研究AR人机交互？微软在研究AR与动物的交互了！
The incredible ‘zombie projector’ that can virtually peel back the layers of a person to show their skeleton and muscles working
Kinect brings enrichment to zoo orangutans
Augmented Reality: getting under the skin
Augmented Studio at NGV
Augmented Reality Turns Live Volunteers into Anatomy Lessons
这项AR技术将你活生生地“解剖”给别人看
你以为只有HoloLens？微软已经把RoomAlive用到医疗教育上了！
AR＋医疗：这项AR技术将你活生生地“解剖”给别人看
Virtual reality helping older ‘explorers’ connect and share memories
Virtual friends a new answer to social isolation
Encounters with Kinect
Contact
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