Alumni Staff

Sarah Makarem

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Institute of Telematics / TECO

Vincenz-Prießnitz-Straße 1

76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Building 07.07

Room 202

makaremδteco.edu

Sarah Makarem

Short CV

  • 07.2022 – 09.2023: Data Management Consultant at Camelot ITLab GmbH, Mannheim, Germany
  • 01.2021 – 05.2022: Academic Assistant/Data analyst at Steinbeis: Transferzentrum Rechnereinsatz im Maschinenbau, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 09.2018 – 10.2020: Master of Science (M.Sc.) – Mechatronic & Micro-Mechatronic Systems at University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 01.2019 – 09.2019: Systems Engineer at Design House, Cairo, Egypt
  • 09.2014 – 08.2018: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) – Mechanical Engineering at Nile University, Cairo, Egypt

Projects

Research Interests

  • Image Generation Models
  • Gaze-based Interaction
  • Eye Tracking
  • Data Visualization

TEACHING

SS25

  • Proseminar: Designing and Conduction Experimental Studies
  • Praxis Der Software Entwicklung

SS24

  • Seminar: User-Adaptive Systems

Publications

2025
BodyPursuits: Exploring Smooth Pursuit Gaze Interaction Based on Body Motion Targets
Hansen, A.; Makarem, S.; Kunze, K.; Zhou, Y.; Knierim, M. T.; Clarke, C.; Gellersen, H.; Beigl, M.; Röddiger, T.
2025. Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Art.-Nr.: 3, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3715669.3723110 
2024
PictographAI: Interactive Generation of Stylized Pictographs for Presentations
Makarem, S.; Röddiger, T.; Riedel, T.; Beigl, M.
2024. Mensch und Computer 2024 - Workshopband : 01.-04. September 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). doi:10.18420/muc2024-mci-demo-305