Biography
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I am currently a lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in the School of Computing at Macquarie University. Previously, I held a lecturer position in the College of CSE at James Cook University and worked as a research fellow at the University of Sydney and the University of South Australia. I earned my PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. Before transitioning to academia, I worked in the industry for over 10 years in various technical and leadership roles.
My research interests includes natural language processing, multimodal analysis and social computing, with a specific focus on language modeling and the design of socially aware innovative methods for various applications such as (i) Cyber Informatics, (ii) Online Opinion and Sarcasm mining, (iii) Responsible Low Resource Language Processing, and (iv) Health/Medical Informatics (visit Research page for details).
I actively publish and contribute to the academic community by serving on the program committee, including as an area chair, for several top-tier venues such as ACL, EMNLP, COLING, WSDM, Webconf, SIGIR, ACM MM, and IEEE Transactions. I am honored to be the recipient of several national and international awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Best Paper Awards from IEEE Transactions in 2022 and at the EMNLP 2023 workshop, as well as the DAAD AINet fellowship in 2023 and 2024.
Research Grants/Fundings
- Research Grant: JCU Sandpit2seed funding to develop new tools using LLM
- Research Grant: Awarded OpenAI’s Researcher Access Program.
- Research Grant: MQU Data Horizons Research Support Grant focused on LLM safety in online trust and safety.
- Research Grant: Macquarie University Research Acceleration Scheme (MQRAS) grant focused on LLM safety and health misinformation.
- DIN PhD Scholarship: Defense Innovation Network (DIN) fully-funded PhD scholarship for Australian citizens, focused on AI-generated misinformation (Hiring Australian citizen).
Honours and Awards
- Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions paper 2022 award by IEEE SMC Society
- NBMLHD Board Chair’s Quality Award in Research and Innovation 2021, “Understanding Patients’ Sentiments in remote care settings”, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD), Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Scholarships, RTPS (2018-2023), USYD suppl. (2021 & 2022)
- Google Research: Selected for participation in graduate symposium hosted by Google Research India, 2021.
- SIGIR 2022 and EMNLP 2022: Student Volunteer Award
- Rising Star in AI, KAUST AI Initiative
- DAAD AINet Fellowship 2023
- Top 2% Global Scientists 2023 published by Stanford
- Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2023 BLP workshop
- WSDM 2024: Travel Award (includes registration and travel)
Recent News
September-2024: One paper is accepted at EMNLP 2024 (Main)
September-2024: Selected as one of World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 in Standford and Elsevier’s report
August-2024: Awarded DAAD Research Stay Fellowship
July-2024: 3 papers accepted at ACM MM 2024 (CORE A*)
July-2024: 1 paper accepted at CIKM 2024
June-2024: Invited to serve as an AC @ COLING 2025
June-2024: Received multiple research fundings including a fully-funded PhD scholarship.
May-2024: Invited Research talks: NTU, A*Star (Singapore), ISI Foundation (Italy), MBZUAI (UAE)
April-2024: My application to OpenAI’s API Researcher Access Program has been accepted.
April-2024: We have a total of 4 papers in LREC-COLING (1x main confernece and 3x workshops). Congrats to all authors!
April-2024: In addition to organising a workshop at Webconf (WWW), we have a total of 5 papers in Webconf (2x main confernece and 3x workshops). Congrats to all authors!
March-2024 3 more papers (workshop) accepted at Webconf 2024.
March-2024 1 paper accepted at LREC-COLING.
Feburary-2024 2 papers accepted at Webconf (1x Main track and 1xWeb4Good track).
Feburary-2024 Joined Macquarie University as a lecturer (~Assistant Prof).
Please visit my Google Scholar page for a detailed list of my publications, including citations count.
Contact
Feel free to contact me at usman.naseem@mq.edu.au if you are interested in working with me or have any questions.
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