Dr Usman Naseem is currently a lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in the School of Computing at Macquarie University. Previously, he 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. He earned his PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. Before transitioning to academia, he worked in the industry for over 10 years in various technical and leadership roles.

His 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 Code-mixed & Low Resource Language Processing 
(iv) Multimodal Content Analysis 
(v)  Health/Medical Informatics

For more details, please visit: my personal webpage and my Google Scholar profile!

He actively publishes and contributes to the academic community by serving on the program committee as an area chair for several top-tier venues such as ACL, EMNLP, COLING, WSDM, Webconf, SIGIR, ACM MM, and IEEE Transactions. He is 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 and the DAAD AINet fellowship in 2023.