I am a Senior Lecturer at The University of Western Australia. In the past, I have worked at the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, and at CSIRO. Between March'23 and June'25 I was the Social Media Coordinator for the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS).

My research interests include: complex systems, artificial intelligence, social network analysis, human-centric cyber security, and health analytics. My current work focuses on predicting population-level events in Australia, detecting fake news and misinformation, AI-driven influence, and modeling polarisation on social media. I am also working on models to improve executive decision-making using methods from complex systems.

I have received AU$1.26Mn in Research Funding as the Lead CI (Investigator 1) and AU$1.64Mn in total from National and International grant agencies. The grant bodies include DFG (Germany), DAAD (Germany), University of Münster (Germany), DIP, Department of Jobs, Tourism and Industries(JTSI) WA, and National Institute of Health UK. This includes one National and one International fellowship, both awarded in 2025.

2025 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Christian Grimme "Low cost privacy preserving AI for content moderation". $25,000. 

2025 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), "The Mind Behind the Prompt". $365,000. 

2025 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Women In Research (International WiRe Fellowship), University of Münster (Germany) [Link]

2023 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Ullrich Ecker, Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, The role of large language models in the detection and mitigation of disinformation narratives, Universities Australia/DAAD Germany, $25,000

Completed Projects

2024 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Michael Wise, Stephaine Meek, Empowering (OSINT) analyst through explainable models, JTSI, $150,000 [Link]

2022 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Timothy Legrand, "A framework for addressing design challenges...", DIP, ~$150,000 (plus $20,000 support) [Link]

2022 - Belind Chiera, .. Mehwish Nasim (Lead PI from Flinders University), Finding Patterns in Noisy Data, DAIRnet, ~$100,000

2021 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Vice Chancellor's Impact Seed Funding award (Flinders University), $10,000 [Link]

2021 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Investigating Language Use by Polarised Groups on Twitter ARC Centre of Excellence for Maths and Stats (ACEMS) $13,000

2021 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01) and Lewis Mitchell, To understand the properties of echo chambers on social media, ARC Centre of Excellence for Maths and Stasts (ACEMS) $4,000

2021 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Timothy Legrand, "A framework for modelling social influence..", ORNet, ~$100,000

2019 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01), Derek Weber, Lewis Mitchell, Finding disinformation campaigns on social media, Universities Australia(UoA)/DAAD Germany, $24,000

2019 - M.O. Yusuf, Syed Muhammad Hasnain, Shahida Ashraf, Rubina Aman, Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 05), Aimal Rextin, Mushtaq Ahmed, Muhammad Zafar, Tabish Hazir, Syed Yahya, Anwer Usma, Salman Majeed, Izhar Ullah, M Ramazan, Sher Amanullah, Maria Zainab, Saqib Mustafa, Ghulam Raza, Sumeira Akhtar, Sajjad Haider, Saima Kazmi. TUM, Munich: Jeroen Buters. University of Edinburgh: Aziz Sheikh, Jürgen Schwarze, Hilary Pinnock, John Norrie, Stefan Reis, Chun Lin, Nazir Lone, Tracy Jackson, Genevie Fernandes. To assess the feasibility of using the eDPSEEA model in seasonal pollen induced asthma in Islamabad. National Institute of Health Research (NIHR - UK), under the RESPIRE program. Appx. ~ $386,000 [Link]

Scholarships and other funding

2012 - Mehwish Nasim (Investigator 01)PhD position as a Research Scientist at TVL-13, Universität Konstanz, Germany. Appx. €150,000.

Mehwish Nasim, Master of Science in Software Engineering, Stipend based on merit, National University of Science and Technology(NUST). Appx $3,000

2021 - Mehwish Nasim, Flinders University establishment grant [relinquished]. $70,000