Usman Naseem

Dr. Usman Naseem is a Lecturer in Computing at Macquarie University’s School of Computing, Australia. Previously, he held academic roles at James Cook University and research fellowships at the University of Sydney and the University of South Australia. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sydney and has over 10 years of industry experience in technical and leadership roles.

Research Interests: NLP, multimodal analysis, and social computing, with focuses on socially aware methods for applications like cyber informatics, online sarcasm/opinion mining, low-resource language processing, and health informatics. He actively contributes to top-tier venues like ACL, EMNLP, and SIGIR.

Grants & Awards: Recipient of the IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award (2022), DAAD AINet Fellowship (2023), and the Rising Star in AI Fellowship. His research has been funded by grants including Macquarie University’s MQRAS and Data Horizons initiatives.

Recent Activities: Leads projects on combating AI-generated misinformation (VaxGuard grant), and has published extensively on topics like health misinformation detection, multimodal learning, and bias mitigation in AI systems. He is currently recruiting PhD and Master’s students in NLP, multimodality, and AI for social good.

Labs & Collaborations: Affiliated with Macquarie’s Data Horizons Research Centre, Future Communications Research Centre, and Frontier AI Research Centre. Collaborates internationally on health informatics, social media analysis, and AI ethics.