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Usman Naseem is a lecturer in the School of Computing at Macquarie University. He has held previous lecturer positions at the College of Computer Science and Engineering at James Cook University, and worked as a research fellow at the University of Sydney and the University of South Australia. Usman earned his PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. Before transitioning into academia, he worked for ten years in industry in technical leadership roles. His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Analysis, and Social Computing, focusing particularly on Language Modeling and the design of socially aware, innovative methods and applications. His key areas of work encompass Cyber Informatics, Online Opinion Sarcasm Mining, Responsible Code-mixed and Low Resource Language Processing, and Multimodal Content Analysis, as well as Health/Medical Informatics. Usman actively contributes to the academic community, serving on program committees as an area chair for top-tier venues such as ACL, EMNLP, COLING, and SIGIR. He has received several national and international awards including the IEEE Transactions Paper Award in 2022 and the DAAD AINet Fellowship in 2023.
Macquarie University • Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lecturer in the School of Computing with a focus on Natural Language Processing and related research areas.
James Cook University • Cairns, QLD, Australia
Lecturer in the College of Computer Science and Engineering.
University of Sydney • Sydney, NSW, Australia
Worked as a research fellow focusing on natural language processing.
University of South Australia • Adelaide, SA, Australia
Conducted research in social computing and related fields.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).