Mehwish Fatima
Assistant Professor
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- 05100000000
Summary
Dr. Mehwish Fatima | Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics | Expert in Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning | """Dr. Mehwish is an accomplished researcher and educator with a Ph.D in Computational Linguistics from Universität Heidelberg-HITS, Germany. With extensive expertise in Generative AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, and Machine Learning (ML), she has made significant contributions to the field, particularly in the area of cross-lingual science journalism. Her research focuses on developing innovative solutions for generating popular science summaries in local languages, bridging the gap between complex scientific research and the general public. Throughout her career, Mehwish has demonstrated a strong commitment to academia and research. She has published numerous papers in prestigious conferences and journals, and her work has been recognized internationally. Her practical skills include proficiency in Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace, and various other AI and ML tools, making her a valuable asset in both research and industry settings. """
Academic Background
PhD
(Computational Linguistics and NLP) Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
November 17, 2018 - March 31, 2023
Honours and Awards
Publications
Whisper in Focus: Parameter-Efficient Stuttering Disfluency Classification
May 19, 2026
IEEE Access - Volume:14, Pages:74412-74425
Multilingual SMS-based author profiling: Data and methods
September 01, 2018
Natural Language Engineering - Volume:24, Issue:5, Pages 695-724
Multilingual author profiling on Facebook
July 01, 2017
Information Processing and Management - Volume:53, Issue:4, Pages 886-904
Multilevel classification of security concerns in cloud computing
January 23, 2017
Applied Computing and Informatics - Volume:13, Issue:1, Pages 57-65
Conferences
LMS-Whisper: Efficient Lightweight Whisper for Multi-Stutter Speech Classification
May 04, 2026 - May 08, 2026
Huma Ameer, Mehwish Fatima, Rabia Latif, SEEMAB LATIF,
51st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
CARGO: Citation-Aware Routing and Grounded Optimization for Faithful and Trustworthy Language Generation
December 15, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Faiza Qamar, SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima,
2025 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
FinAI-Trader: Sentiment-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Bitcoin Trading in the FinAI Contest 2025 Task 1
November 07, 2025 - November 09, 2025
Nikhar Azhar, Sahar Arshad, Mehwish Fatima, Taimoor Ahmed,
Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing, CSCloud 2025
The Chunking Paradigm: Recursive Semantic for RAG Optimization
August 25, 2025 - August 27, 2025
SEEMAB LATIF, Huma Ameer, Muhammad Hannan Akram, Mehwish Fatima,
International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2025)
Prompt-Guided Augmentation and Multi-modal Fusion for Argumentative Fallacy Classification in Political Debates
July 31, 2025 - July 31, 2025
Abdullah Tahir, Imaan Ibrar , Huma Ameer, Mehwish Fatima, SEEMAB LATIF,
12th Workshop on Argument Mining ACL 2025
NUST Titans at SemEval-2025 Task 11: AfroEmo: Multilingual Emotion Detection with Adaptive Afro-XLM-R
July 31, 2025 - August 01, 2025
Mehwish Fatima, Maham Khan, Hajra Binte Naeem, Faiza Khan, Laiba Rana, SEEMAB LATIF, Raja Khurram Shahzad,
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
NUST Nova at RIRAG 2025: A Hybrid Framework for Regulatory Information Retrieval and Question Answering
January 19, 2025 - January 24, 2025
SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima, Mariam Babar Khan, Huma Ameer,
31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)
NUST Omega at RIRAG 2025: Investigating Context-Aware Retrieval and Answer Generation-Lessons Learned and Challenges
January 19, 2025 - January 24, 2025
Huma Ameer, Muhammad Hannan Akram, SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima,
COLING 2025
NUST Alpha at RIRAG 2025: Fusion RAG for Bridging Lexical and Semantic Retrieval and Question Answering
January 19, 2025 - January 24, 2025
Muhammad Rouhan Faisal, Faizyab Ali Shah, Muhammad Abdullah , Shalina Riaz, Huma Ameer, SEEMAB LATIF, Mehwish Fatima,
COLING 2025
SimCSum: Joint Learning of Simplification and Cross-lingual Summarization for Cross-lingual Science Journalism
December 06, 2023 - December 09, 2023
Mehwish Fatima, Tim Kolber, Katja Markert, Michael Strube,
Proceedings of the 4th New Frontiers in Summarization Workshop, Singapore, Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cross-lingual Science Journalism: SELECT, SIMPLIFY and REWRITE Summaries for Non-expert Readers
July 07, 2023 - July 09, 2023
Michael Strube, Mehwish Fatima,
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A Novel Wikipedia based Dataset for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Summarization
November 07, 2021 - November 09, 2021
Mehwish Fatima, Michael Strube,
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
HITS-SBD at the FinSBD Task: Machine Learning vs. Rule-based Sentence Boundary Detection
August 10, 2019 - August 19, 2019
Mehwish Fatima, Mark-Christoph Muller,
Proceedings of the First workshop on financial technology and natural language processing
Multilingual author profiling on SMS track at fire’18
December 06, 2018 - December 09, 2018
Muhammad Sharjeel, Mehwish Fatima, Saba Anwar, Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab,
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Consensus decision making in random forests
July 21, 2015 - July 23, 2015
Raja Khurram Shahzad, Mehwish Fatima, Niklas Lavesson, Martin Bolt,
Machine Learning, Optimization, and Big Data. MOD 2015
Content Architect
Educative Inc.
July 24, 2023 - June 30, 2024
Guest NLP Scientist
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
November 01, 2018 - March 30, 2023
Lecturer
Comsats University
August 01, 2012 - August 30, 2018