Naeha Sharif

Dr. Naeha Sharif is a Lecturer in Computer Science & Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA), specializing in Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). She holds a PhD from UWA (2021) focused on AI-driven image captioning and received the prestigious ACS 1962 Medal for outstanding IT/CS research. Her work bridges AI with healthcare, including automated medical assessment via spine scans (DXA) for abdominal aortic calcification analysis and AI-driven medical report generation for fundus imaging.

Education: PhD in Computer Science (UWA 2021), Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering (Kyung Hee University, 2013). Previous roles include Postdoctoral Fellow at Edith Cowan University (2021–2022).

Research Interests: Vision-language models, medical image analysis, captioning metrics, multimodal learning, and AI applications in healthcare. Active in UN SDGs related to health and innovation.

Teaching: Unit Coordinator for

• Computer Graphics & Animation (CITS3003, 2022–2023)
• Computational Thinking with Python (CITS1401, 2023)

Grants: Lead investigator on the 'Generative AI for Screening of Depressive Disorders' project (2024).

Awards: Recognized for student learning contributions (2025), best paper awards (2024/2020), and academic excellence honors (2021/2020).

Labs/Teams: Member of UWA Natural & Technical Language Processing Group and IEEE Signal Processing Society.