Graduate Program Director, Human-Centered Computing
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sciences & Technologies

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (616) 331-3647
Office: MAK C-2-210
Website: Personal Website

Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, Indiana University Bloomington, 2022

Dr. Imtiaz Ahmad serves as the Graduate Program Director for the Human-Centered Computing program at Grand Valley State University, where he authored both the bachelor's and master's degree programs in this emerging field. His research interests span Human-AI Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, and Usable Privacy, with a focus on designing systems that prioritize user needs, trust, and accessibility.

Dr. Ahmad regularly teaches courses in usability design and evaluation, databases, data structures and algorithms, and usable privacy. He is an active reviewer for leading conferences and workshops, including CSCW, CHI, and SOUPS. When he’s not working with students or advancing research, Dr. Ahmad enjoys playing and watching soccer.

• Wazzan, A., Ahmad, I., Macneil, S., & Souvenir, R. (2024). Context or Clutter? Efficiently Matching Objects Across Scenes. Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 404–413. https://doi.org/10.1145/3652583.3658090
• Ahmad, I., Akter, T., Buher, Z., Farzan, R., Kapadia, A., & Lee, A. J. (2022). Tangible Privacy for Smart Voice Assistants: Bystanders’ Perceptions of Physical Device Controls. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555089
• Pias, S. B. H., Ahmad, I., Akter, T., Kapadia, A., & Lee, A. J. (2022). Decaying Photos for Enhanced Privacy: User Perceptions Towards Temporal Redactions and “Trusted” Platforms. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555538

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