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General

Full Name Md Abrar Jahin
Email abrar.jahin.2652[at]gmail.com
Pronouns he/him
Links
LinkedIn
Scholar
GitHub
ResearchGate
Knowledge Panel

Education

  • 2025 - Present
    PhD in Computer Science
    University of Southern California
    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
    • Awarded USC Graduate Fellowship for the 1st year
  • 2019 - 2024
    B.Sc. in Industrial & Production Engineering
    Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
    Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
    • CGPA 3.83/4.00 (Top 5%)
    • Dean's award 3x for achieving annual CGPA above 3.75
    • Undergrad thesis titled "Supply Chain Backorder Prediction Using Interpretable Hybrid Quantum—Classical Neural Network" [Publication]

Research Experiences

  • 2025 - Present
    AI Researcher
    Center on Knowledge Graphs, Information Sciences Institute (ISI), CA, USA
    Advised by Prof. Craig Knoblock and Prof. Jay Pujara
    • Research is generously funded by DARPA
  • 2023 - 2025
    Lead Researcher
    Advanced Machine Intelligence Research Lab (AMIRL), Bangladesh
    Advised by Prof. Mohammad Firoz Mridha, Prof. Nilanjan Dey, and Prof. Jungpil Shin
    • Published articles in the fields of DL, QML, GNN, XAI, conformal prediction, human-in-the-loop, NLP, and operations research
  • 2024 - 2025
    Visiting Researcher
    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan
    Physics and Biology Unit
    Advised by Prof. Jonathan Miller [BS (Yale); PhD Biology (Cambridge); PhD Physics (Caltech)]
    • Research project "Evolutionary Dynamics of Strongly Conserved Sequences"
  • 2023 - 2024
    Visiting Research Student (VRS)
    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan
    Physics and Biology Unit
    Advised by Prof. Jonathan Miller
    • Collaborated with Dr. Lucia Zifcakova, Dr. Priscila Do Nascimento Biller, Dr. Zdenek Lajbner, and Dr. Reuven Pnini
  • 2021 - 2022
    Research Intern (RI)
    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan
    Physics and Biology Unit
    Advised by Prof. Jonathan Miller
    • Awarded with full-funded scholarship with a daily allowance of JPY 2400 per working day (taxable)

Open Source Projects

  • 2024
    KUET B.Sc. Thesis LaTeX Template
    Developed the first-ever LaTeX template for B.Sc. Undergrad Thesis of KUET [Template]

Skills

Programming Python, C/C++, R, Kotlin, SQL, SAS, Data Structure and Algorithm, Object Orient Programming
AI TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, scikit-learn, spaCy, scipy, Transformers, XAI, NLP, DASK, IBM Watson, crepes, MAPIE, Orange
Analysis Microsoft Excel, IBM SPSS, Minitab, TORA, Beautiful Soup, Biopython, Bioconductor, NetworkX, ggplot2, matplotlib, seaborn, plotly
Research LaTeX, Microsoft Word, Zotero, Mendeley, Publish or Perish 8.0, Gephi, VOSviewer
Others Unix, Git, GCP, PyCharm, IntelliJ, Unity 2D, SolidWorks 2022, AutoCAD 2021