Fatema Nafa

Fatema Nafa is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on machine learning applications in healthcare, educational technology, and cognitive science. She joined Northeastern in January 2024, contributing expertise in developing user-friendly systems for medical diagnostics and educational assessment tools like ProGrader for programming courses.

Her work spans interdisciplinary areas such as breast cancer detection using CNNs, Alzheimer’s diagnosis through ML GUIs, and improving HPV awareness via BERT-based text summarization. She explores dependency structures in knowledge units using Markov networks and semantic graph analysis. Recent projects include computational methods for prerequisite analysis in computer science curricula and social network efficiency studies.

Notable trends in her publications include healthcare technology advancements, educational system automation, and cognitive skill modeling. She actively chairs conferences and publishes in venues addressing intersections of AI, education, and health. No awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts.

Her advising record is not detailed here, but her research emphasizes collaborative efforts in labs focused on AI-driven solutions for societal challenges.