Hamza M. Elhamdadi
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Biography
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Hamza Elhamdadi joined the Stonehill College community in 2025. His research interests are at the crossroads of cognitive psychology and computer science. Specifically, he is interested in how factors of human perception, cognition and other individual factors affect trust in data visualizations. He is also interested in exploring the use of topological data analysis for the purpose of efficiently training machine learning models for classification in applied contexts.
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- M.S., Computer Science, University of South Florida
- B.S., Computer Science, University of South Florida
Courses Taught
- Computer Science I
- Computer Logic and Organization
Areas of Expertise
Titles
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Departments
Computer Science
- Contrasting Diverse, Probabilistic, and Visualization-Based Data Selection Methods for Visual Analytics. Elhamdadi, H., Islam, M., Mitra, S., Burhanuddin, I. A., Yu, T., Meliou, A., Bearfield, C. X. IEEE VIS Posters 2024. (Poster and Presentation)
- Vistrust: a Multidimensional Framework and Empirical Study of Trust in Data Visualizations. Elhamdadi, H., Stefkovics, A., Beyer, J., Moerth, E., Bearfield, C. X., Nobre, C. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023. (Publication and Presentation)
- How Do We Measure Trust in Visual Data Communication? Elhamdadi, H., Gaba, A., Kim, Y., Xiong, C. IEEE VIS Beliv Workshop, 2022. (Publication and Presentation)
- Processing fluency improves trust in scatterplot visualizations. Elhamdadi, H., Padilla, L., Bearfield, C. X. IEEE VIS Posters, 2022. (Poster and Presentation)
- AffectiveTDA: Using Topological Data Analysis To Improve Analysis And Explainability In Affective Computing. Elhamdadi, H., Canavan, S., Rosen, P. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021. (Publication and Presentation)