Mehwish Nasim

Mehwish Nasim is a Lecturer in Computer Science at The University of Western Australia (UWA) and holds adjunct positions at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University. She is an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers and a member of the Equity and Diversity Committee. With 17+ years in technology, she has served as a Research Scientist at the University of Konstanz and a lecturer at the National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan). Her PhD from the University of Konstanz focused on inferring social relations in partially observable networks.

Research Interests
Her work spans social network analysis, machine learning, medical image processing, and health analytics. Current projects include predicting population-level events in Australia, detecting misinformation, modeling social media polarization, and improving decision-making via complex systems approaches.

Grants & Funding
Key grants include a Defence AI Research Network grant (~$100K), a Defence Innovation Partnership grant ($150K), and Flinders Impact Seed Funding ($10K) targeting vaccine misinformation in migrant communities. She also secured ACEMS grants for social media polarization studies and led proposals in wargame modeling and transnational research.

Teaching
She teaches courses such as Algorithms, Agents & AI (UWA), Data Engineering (Flinders), and Database Modelling. Past roles include lecturing at NUST and tutoring network dynamics at Konstanz.

Media & Outreach
Featured in 'Women in STEM' series (2022), Flinders News (2022), and CSIRO's Data61 spotlight (2021). She has been interviewed on disinformation campaigns and podcast discussions on 'fake vs fact' (ACEMS, 2020).