I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus). I received my PhD and MSc from the University of Manitoba where I was supervised by Dr. Pourang Irani. After my PhD, I joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow, working with Dr. Edward Lank . I received my B.Sc. engineering degree from Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Bangladesh.

My research interest is in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with a focus on interactions with mobile and wearable devices. More specifically, I am interested in exploring user needs and limitations while interacting with mobile and wearable devices, designing new interaction techniques to facilitate the needs and help users to overcome the limitations.

Research Position

 

Admission Requirements: Please review this page for detailed information about admission requirements. After reviewing the requirements, prospective students may express their interest by contacting me at my university email address at khalad dot hasan at ubc dot ca. Please include your (i) CV and (ii) academic transcript(s) with your email.

Current Openings: I have graduate positions available for Fall 2026. Applicants are strongly encouraged to review my research areas before reaching out. I occasionally receive emails requesting supervision on topics unrelated to my research or referencing my paper titles without demonstrating an understanding of the underlying work. I appreciate inquiries that are well-informed and aligned with my research interests.

 

Recent News

 

  • πŸ“„ Jan 2026 – Three papers were accepted at CHI 2026.
  • πŸ“„ Dec 2025 – Bakdauren Narbayev’s paper was accepted at IEEE VR 2026.
  • πŸŽ“ Oct 2025 – Tarik Hasan successfully defended his MSc thesis.
  • 🎀 Oct 2025 – Two papers were presented at ISMAR 2025 in Daejeon, Korea.
  • 🎀 Sept 2025 – A paper was presented at INTERACT 2025 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  • πŸ† Aug 2025 – A paper was presented at MobileHCI 2025 in Egypt and received an Honourable Mention Award.
  • πŸŽ“ Aug 2025 – Bakdauren Narbayev successfully defended his MSc thesis and began his PhD in the lab in September 2025.
  • 🎀 May 2025 – A paper was presented at GI 2025 in Canada.
  • πŸ† Apr 2025 – Marium E. Jannat and Satabdi Das presented two papers at CHI 2025 in Japan. Marium’s paper received an Honourable Mention Award.

Students

Graduate Students

 

Marium-E-Jannat

PhD (2021-Present)

A. K. M. Amanat Ullah

PhD (2021-Present)

Satabdi Das

PhD (2024-Present)

Bakdauren Narbayev

PhD (2025-Present)

Omang Baheti

MSc (2023-Present)

Iverson (Shuchen) Yuan

MSc (2025-Present)

Undergraduate Students

 

Qingyun Qian

(2025-Present)

Alumni

 

Postdoctoral Alumni

 

Arshad Nasser

Post-Doc (2023-2024)

Jaisie Sin

Post-Doc (2023-2024)

Graduate Alumni

 

Zil-E-Huma Khan

MSc (2018-2021) (co-supervisor)

Pinku Deb Nath

MSc (2019-2022)

Biswapriyo Chakrabarty

MSc (2019-2024)

Karanmeet Khatra

MSc (2020 - 2022)

Sohan Chowdhury

MSc (2021-2023)

Satabdi Das

MSc (2022-2024)

Nelusha Nugegoda

MSc (2022-2024, co-supervisor)

Bakdauren Narbayev

MSc (2023-2025, co-supervisor)

Tarik Hasan

MSc (2023-2025)

Undergraduate Alumni

 

Lucas Ziegler

(2025)

Rhys Smith

(2024-2025)

Anmol Chadha

(2024)

Nick Chen

(2023-2024)

Dhruv Bihani

(2023-2024)

Manjot Singh

(2023)

Ishita Gupta

(2023)

Si Siddhanth Raja

(2023)

Prateek Dhaka

(2023)

Thuan Vo

(2021-2024)

Livia Jonnatan

(2021-2022)

Taylor Regier

(2020)

Michael Crouse

(2020)

Levi Magnus

(2019-2020)

Kevin Feddema

(2019)

Dan Chiarlone

(2019)

Tianhao Wang

(2019)

Swakhar Poddar

(2019)

Angela Leung

(2019 - 2020)

Noman Mohammad

(2019 - 2020)

Publications

 

For the complete list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar profile.

 

 

 

 

Projects

 

Novel Smartphone UIs
Around-Device Interaction
Large Display Interaction
New Smartwatch Input
Visualizations on Smartwatches
AR/MR/VR Inputs
Hand-Based Interaction with HMDs
Smartphone-Based AR
Navigation in VR

Teaching

 

[Fall 2019 - 2021] COSC 222: Data Structure, University of British Columbia

[Fall 2019 - 2020] COSC 548: Advanced Interaction Design, University of British Columbia

[Fall 2018-2025] DATA 533: Collaborative Software Development, University of British Columbia

[Fall 2018-2025] DATA541: Scripting and Reporting, University of British Columbia

[Winter 2018 - 2021] DATA 589: Special Topic (Big Data Analysis), University of British Columbia

[Fall 2018 - 2019, 2021 - 2025] COSC 341: Human-Computer Interaction, University of British Columbia

[Winter 2018] CS349: User Interfaces (Two sections), University of Waterloo

[Winter 2017] COMP 1020: Introductory Computer Science 2, University of Manitoba

[Summer 2016] COMP 2140: Data Structures and Algorithms, University of Manitoba

[Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016] COMP 1010: Introductory Computer Science 1, University of Manitoba

Contact

 

Mohammad Khalad Hasan
Room No: SCI 260
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Kelowna, B.C. V1V 1V7.
Email: khalad dot hasan at ubc dot ca