About Me

Who Am I?

A'aeshah Alhakamy is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computers and Information Technology at the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Her educational journey was marked by a full scholarship that supported her pursuit of higher education in Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging abroad.

Throughout her career, she has held numerous administrative roles including Chair of the Computer Science Department for the Female Section, Deputy Supervisor of the Data Governance Unit, Data Management Lead, Academic Affairs Supervisor, Deputy Director of the Industrial Innovation and Robotics Center, Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Technologies Center, and Member of the Permanent Supervisory Committee for Social Responsibility.

A'aeshah earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2020 from Purdue University, Indianapolis, under the mentorship of Professor Mihran Tuceryan. She also holds an M.Sc. in Computer and Information Science from Purdue University and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Taibah University.

A'aeshah's research is primarily in the fields of:

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Alhakamy, A. (2026). Managing uncertainty and information dynamics with graphics-enhanced TOGAF architecture in higher education. Entropy, 28(3). doi:10.3390/e28030361
2. Alharbi, L. A., Alnahas, J., Javed, A., Alhakamy, A., Nawaz, M., Malik, H., et al. (2026). DeepRawNet: Empowering deepfake audio detection through dynamic enhancements. PeerJ Computer Science, 12, e3670. doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.3670
3. Alhakamy, A. (2025). Advancing SDG5: Machine learning and statistical graphics for women’s empowerment and gender equity. Sustainability, 17(21). doi:10.3390/su17219706
4. Friedman, A., Tazike, M., Gokpinar Shelton, E., Patel, N., Alhakamy, A., & Cafaro, F. (2025). “I’m a fish!”: Exploring children’s engagement with human–data interactions in museums. Applied Sciences, 15(21). doi:10.3390/app152111304
5. Alhakamy, A. (2025). Intersecting Realms: Examining the convergence of vision and AI in extended reality graphics. IEEE Access. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3599337
6. Albalawi, S., Alamri, L., Atut, J., Albalawi, S., Haddaddi, R., & Alhakamy, A. (2025). Mahya: Facial recognition-based pilgrim identification system. IJACSA, 16(3). doi:10.14569/IJACSA.2025.0160391
7. Alhakamy, A. (2024). Extended reality toward building immersive solutions: The key to unlocking Industry 4.0. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(9). doi:10.1145/3652595
8. Alhakamy, A. (2023). Digital vaccination passport and administrative burden of COVID-19 official application based on Twitter/X discourse. Multimedia Tools and Applications. doi:10.1007/s11042-023-17598-7
9. Alatawi, H., Albalawi, N., Shahata, G., Aljohani, K., Alhakamy, A., & Tuceryan, M. (2023). Augmented reality-assisted deep reinforcement learning-based model. Sensors, 23(13). doi:10.3390/s23136024
10. Alhakamy, A. (2023). Fathoming the Mandela Effect. Symmetry, 15(3). doi:10.3390/sym15030699
11. Alhakamy, A., Alhowaity, A., Alatawi, A. A., & Alsaadi, H. (2023). Are used cars more sustainable? Sustainability, 15(2). doi:10.3390/su15020911
12. Albalawi, S., Alshahrani, L., Albalawi, N., Kilabi, R., & Alhakamy, A. (2022). Biometric authentication systems using AI. IJACSA, 13(4). doi:10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130491
13. Alharbi, R., Alageel, N., Alsayil, M., Alharbi, R., & Alhakamy, A. (2022). Prediction of oil production through linear regression model and big data tools. IJACSA, 13(12). doi:10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131246
14. Alomani, S. M., Alhawiti, N. I., & Alhakamy, A. (2022). Prediction of water quality according to a random forest classifier. IJACSA, 13(6). doi:10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01306105
15. Alhakamy, A., & Tuceryan, M. (2020). Real-time illumination and visual coherence for photorealistic augmented/mixed reality. ACM Computing Surveys, 53(3). doi:10.1145/3386496
16. Trajkova, M., Alhakamy, A., Cafaro, F., Vedak, S., Mallappa, R., & Kankara, S. R. (2020). Exploring casual COVID-19 data visualizations on Twitter. Informatics, 7(3). doi:10.3390/informatics7030035

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Conference Proceedings

1. Friedman, A., Tazike, M., Shelton, E. G., Patel, N. A., Alhakamy, A., & Cafaro, F. (2025). Puppeteers and forecasters: How children engage. doi:10.1145/3694907.3765950
2. Alhakamy, A. (2024). “XR is a game”: Exploring people’s reasons for using, limiting, and abandoning extended reality. doi:10.1109/RCAR61438.2024.10670927
3. Alessa, N., Majdua, A., Alshehri, S., Alhawiti, M., Aljohani, R., & Alhakamy, A. (2023). Banking deposit prediction based on machine learning and big data analytics. doi:10.1109/ICCMA59762.2023.10374595
4. Alshammari, A., Alshammari, R., Altalak, M., Alshammari, K., & Alhakamy, A. (2022). Credit-card fraud detection system using big data analytics. doi:10.1109/ICECCME55909.2022.9987791
5. Alhakamy, A., Trajkova, M., & Cafaro, F. (2021). Show me how you interact, I will tell you what you think. doi:10.1145/3461778.3462083
6. Alhakamy, A., Cafaro, F., Trajkova, M., Kankara, S., Mallappa, R., & Veda, S. (2020). Design strategies and optimizations for human-data interaction systems in museums. doi:10.1109/ICALT49669.2020.00081
7. Trajkova, M., Alhakamy, A., Cafaro, F., Mallappa, R., & Kankara, S. R. (2020). Move your body: Engaging museum visitors with human-data interaction. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376186
8. Alhakamy, A., & Tuceryan, M. (2019). An empirical evaluation of real-time illumination approaches. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25999-0_16
9. Alhakamy, A., & Tuceryan, M. (2019). Polarization-based illumination detection. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22514-8_1
10. Alhakamy, A., & Tuceryan, M. (2019). AR360: Dynamic illumination for augmented reality. doi:10.1109/INFOCT.2019.8710982
11. Alhakamy, A., & Tuceryan, M. (2019). CubeMap360: Interactive global illumination. doi:10.1109/SoutheastCon42311.2019.9020588
12. Alsaiari, A., Rustagi, R., Alhakamy, A., Thomas, M. M., & Forbes, A. G. (2019). Image denoising using a generative adversarial network. doi:10.1109/INFOCT.2019.8710893
13. Cafaro, F., Trajkova, M., & Alhakamy, A. (2019). Designing embodied interactions for informal learning. doi:10.1145/3321335.3329688

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Books and Chapters

1. Alhakamy, A., & Tuceryan, M. (2020). Physical environment reconstruction beyond light polarization for coherent augmented reality scene on mobile devices. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-61983-4_2

Teaching

Current Courses

1. [CIT 1305] Database Systems
2. [CIS 601] Fundamentals of Data Science

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Previous Courses

1. [CSC 1301] Software Engineering
2. [CSC 390] Field Training for CS Students
3. [CIT 390] Field Training for IT Students
4. [CIT 1305] Database Systems
5. [CSC 101] Computer Programming 1
6. [CSC 1101] Introduction to Computing
7. [CSC 102] Computer Programming 2
8. [CSC 1102] Problem Solving and Programming Concepts
9. [CSC 112] Programming Languages
10. [CSC 1201] Object-Oriented Programming
11. [CSC 1203] Advanced Programming Methods
12. [CSC 210] Computer Organization with Assembly
13. [CSC 220] Data Structure and Algorithms
14. [CE 5 224] Data Structure
15. [DM 241] Introduction to Computer
16. [CIT 0341] IT Project Management
17. [CSC 420] Theory of Computation
18. [CSC 0452] Computer Graphics
19. [CIT 0453] Multimedia Systems
20. [CSC 0492] Selected Topics in Computer Science
21. [CSC 490] Graduation Project 1
22. [CSC 491] Graduation Project 2

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Previous Master Courses

1. [CIS 601] Fundamentals of Data Science
2. [CIT 603] Database Security
3. [CIS 605] Programming for Data Science
4. [CSC 606] Computer Vision
5. [CIS 611] Big Data Analytics
6. [CIT 616] Introduction to Cyber Security and Digital Forensic
7. [CSC 624] Research Project 1
8. [CSC 624] Research Project 2

Achievements

Awards

2026

• Outstanding Scientific Research Award, Web of Science journal, Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Tabuk; for doi:10.3390/su17219706.
• Outstanding Scientific Research Award, Web of Science journal, Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Tabuk; for doi:10.3390/app152111304.
• Distinguished Community Partner Award, Faculty Member Category, Deanship of Student Affairs, University of Tabuk.
• Outstanding Scientific Research Award, Web of Science journal, Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Tabuk; for doi:10.1145/3652595.

2025

• Outstanding Scientific Research Award, Web of Science journal, Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Tabuk; for doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3599337.
• Incentive Reward for Distinguished Researchers, high-citation scientific research, Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Tabuk.

2024

• Excellence Award, teaching and learning, e-learning National Excellence track, University of Tabuk.
• Outstanding Faculty Member Award in Student Activities, Deanship of Student Affairs, University of Tabuk.
• Outstanding Scientific Research Award for doi:10.1007/s11042-023-17598-7.
• Outstanding Scientific Research Award for doi:10.3390/s23136024.

2023 and Earlier

• Outstanding Scientific Research Awards, University of Tabuk, for Web of Science indexed publications.
• President’s Award for Outstanding Scientific Research, University of Tabuk, 2022.
• Travel Award, CHI Conference, 2020.
• Outstanding Scientific Research Award, SACM, 2019.
• Travel Award, Introduction to Academic Leadership, SACM, 2018.
• Master’s Degree High-GPA Award, SACM, 2016.
• Full Scholarship, University of Tabuk and SACM, 2013.
• Honors Degree, B.Sc. in Computer Science, Taibah University, 2005.

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Certifications

• The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team: Supervisory Leadership Path, FranklinCovey and Deanship of Quality and Academic Accreditation, October 6–8, 2024.
• Fundamentals of Developing and Building Policies and Legal Legislation, National Data Management Office, June 5, 2023.
• Hadoop Platform and Application Framework, University of California San Diego, July 24, 2021.
• Introduction to Academic Leadership, Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education, 2018.

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Grants

• Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Tabuk, PI, Extended Reality (XR): Making Immersive Technologies in Training and Repair the Key to Unlocking Industry 4.0, Grant No. S-1443-0002, August 2022 – May 2023.
• NSF/CISE, CHS:EAGER: Aiding Reasoning about Correlation and Causation, Role: Research Assistant, Grant No. 1848898, January 2019 – December 2020.