Marwa Mahmoud

University of Glasgow, UK

Marwa Mahmoud is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Socially Intelligent Technologies at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, she spent 10 years at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her PhD in 2015, held a postdoctoral researcher position from 2015–2016, and was awarded the King's College Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from 2016–2021. Dr Mahmoud's research is at the intersection of computer vision, social signal processing, and multimodal perception, with a particular focus on affective computing, behaviour analytics, and human and animal behaviour understanding. As the Director of the Behavioural AI Lab at University of Glasgow, she leads efforts to develop cutting-edge technologies aimed at 'AI for Social Good,' integrating computer vision and multimodal machine learning to enhance human well-being and animal welfare. She is the President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), and has served on multiple conference organisation committees in the field, most notably as a General Chair for ACII 2024, Area Chair for ICMI 2022 and 2023 and Competition chair for FG2024.