Md Abrar Jahin, CSCA (Certified Supply Chain Analyst), is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Fellow with the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA. He is also affiliated as an AI Researcher with the Center on Knowledge Graphs at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), located in Silicon Beach, where he works on DARPA and AFRL-funded projects in semantic table understanding and critical mineral discovery. He is fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Craig Knoblock and Prof. Jay Pujara. He received the B.Sc. degree in Industrial & Production Engineering from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh, in March 2024. From March 2024 to March 2025, he served as a Visiting Researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan and as a Lead Researcher at the Advanced Machine Intelligence Research Lab (AMIRL) in Bangladesh. His current research interests include efficient deep learning, quantum machine learning, geometric deep learning, and trustworthy artificial intelligence, with applications in high-energy physics, healthcare, and supply chain optimization. His previous research contributions span reinforcement learning, sentiment analysis, operations research, and comparative genomics. Abrar has received numerous accolades, including the Highly Commended Research Award (twice) from The Global Undergraduate Awards 2025 (top 10% globally), the Student Researcher of the Year Award 2024, and a Global Nomination from NASA Space Apps Challenge 2023. He was the inaugural recipient of the Student Researcher of the Year Award 2024 from the KUET Research Society for publishing the highest number of high-impact research articles and demonstrating exceptional leadership between October 2023 and November 2024. Beyond research, Abrar co-founded and served as President of the KUET Research Society, where he mentored students, organized workshops, and fostered interdisciplinary collaboration. He has managed competitive research grants from international institutions and actively contributes as a peer reviewer for Q1 journals and CORE-A* conferences. More information is available at: https://abrar2652.github.io/.

Abrar's current research interests lie at the intersection of efficient deep learning, quantum machine learning, geometric deep learning, and trustworthy AI. His previous research includes reinforcement learning, sentiment analysis, operations research, and comparative genomics.

- Viterbi Graduate School Fellowship, USC (2025–2026)
- Highly Commended Research Awardee (x2 Articles), The Global Undergraduate Awards (2025)
- Student Researcher of the Year Award, KUET Research Society (2024)
- Champion, CS50x Puzzle Day — Harvard University & Meta (2020, 2024, 2025)
- MIT Solve Global Health Equity Challenge Winner (2024)
- Dean’s Award (3x), KUET (2018–2021)
- NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Nominee (2023)
- Finalist, HONDA Y-E-S (Young Engineer and Scientist’s) Award (2022)
- Junior Research Fellowship, SPARRSO (2022)
- Qiskit Gold Level Translator, IBM (2021)
- Global Champion, Smart Roads Hackathon (2021)
- Winner, ISCEA Ptak Prize Global SCM Case Competition (2020)
- Gold Honor, International Astronomy & Astrophysics Competition (2020)
- Top 500, Google Android App Developer Challenge (2021)
- Top 6 among 385 teams, Entrepret Season-2: Crafting Visions (2021)
- Gold Honor, International Youth Math Challenge (2019)
- International Asteroid Search Collaboration, NASA (2020)
- Government Board Merit-based Scholarship (4x): PSC, JSC, SSC, HSC (2010–2018)

AI Researcher — Center of Knowledge Graphs, USC ISI (Aug 2025 – Present); Supervisors: Prof. Craig Knoblock [USC ISI], Prof. Jay Pujara [USC ISI]
Lead Researcher — Advanced Machine Intelligence Research Lab (AMIRL), AIUB (Mar 2023 – Aug 2025); Supervisors: Prof. M. F. Mridha [AIUB], Prof. Nilanjan Dey [TINT, India]
Visiting Researcher — Physics and Biology Unit, OIST (Mar 2024 – Mar 2025); Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Miller [PhD in Biology, Cambridge; PhD in Physics, Caltech]
Visiting Research Student — Physics and Biology Unit, OIST (Feb 2023 – Feb 2024); Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Miller
Research Lead — Research Camp 02, Scholarship School BD (May 2022 – Mar 2023); Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Arafat Hussain (Harvard Medical School)
Research Intern — Physics and Biology Unit, OIST (Oct 2021 – Mar 2022); Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Miller
Research Intern — UiT – The Arctic University of Norway (May 2021); Supervisors: Prof. Aleksander Pedersen, Prof. Rune Dalmo, Ghada Bouzidi; Internship Mentor: Prof. Per Arne Sundsbø