Dr. Farah Nadeem is an Assistant Professor at the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Her research brings machine learning and education data to questions of assessment, teaching quality and fair access to school.
She leads studies funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on the political economy of assessment data, responsible AI in education and the simulation of school enrolment, and is co-principal investigator on a Google Society-Centered AI Research Award. Earlier, she led monitoring and evaluation for Punjab's school education reform programme, where her team ran data collection for 52,000 schools, and she has worked with UNICEF Pakistan and the World Bank's Education Global Practice. From 2023 to 2025 she directed the LUMS Office of Accessibility and Inclusion.
She holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington, where she was a Fulbright Fellow.