IEEE TVCG · ISMAR 2026
Who Are You in Virtual Reality?
Suppressing demographic leakage via progressive adversarial privacy.
PhD Student · Human-Centered XR
Nasim Ahmed
PhD Student · Human-Centered XR
Nasim Ahmed
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Kennesaw State University and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Human-Centered Immersive eXperience Lab (HiX Lab).
My research focuses on building immersive systems that are safer, more adaptive, and more privacy-aware. I work across XR safety, cognitive and behavioral modeling, cybersickness, engagement, human-centered AI, and privacy/security for behavioral sensing.
Graduate Research Assistant on DARPA Intrinsic Cognitive Security research (Award HR00112420366).
Current research interests include:
Human-Computer Interaction
Extended Reality
Cognitive Modeling
Privacy & Security
Cybersickness & Safety
Human-Centered AI
News
Multiple IEEE ISMAR 2026 works accepted
Personalized cybersickness, demographic privacy, engagement estimation, and mixed-reality datasets.
BehavXR’26 lightning talk accepted
“The Moment Before Disengagement: Predicting When Users Mentally Check Out in XR.”
ImmerseGT 2026 awards
Gaming Track winner and Snap AR Track recognition for HeistAR.
Outstanding PhD Student Research Award
Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University.
Selected Publications
ACM VRST 2026
I’m Feeling Different
Uncertainty-aware cross-domain cognitive load prediction in virtual reality.
IEEE ISMAR 2026
One Size Does Not Fit All
Personalized cybersickness forecasting with asymmetric few-shot meta-learning.