Abrar Faiaz
AI FOR SCIENCE, RESILIENCE & THE REAL WORLD

Machine learning
for complex system and scientific discovery.

I’m Abrar Faiaz — a researcher and engineer working at the intersection of scientific machine learning, multimodal AI, and decision-support systems. My work spans cyclone forecasting, geospatial intelligence, AI-powered search, and LLM systems for real-world impact.

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Abrar Faiaz
BUET · Dhaka, Bangladesh
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01 — About

Bridging environmental engineering, physics, and modern AI.

I’m a Civil Engineering graduate from BUET, researching machine-learning methods for complex environmental and physical systems. My work explores physics-informed learning, representation learning, and multimodal AI for forecasting, retrieval, and decision support in high-impact real-world settings.

Physics-Informed ML Computer Vision Multimodal Retrieval LLMs & RAG Model Compression Geospatial ML
Education

B.Sc. Civil Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) · 2021–2026

Notre Dame College, Dhaka — HSC

Leadership
  • Director, R&D — ACI BUET Student Chapter
  • Deputy Vice President — BUET Innovation & Designing Club
  • Former Deputy Secretary — ASCE BUET Student Chapter
02 — Experience

Where I’m building.

Apr 2025 — Present

Start Network Bangladesh ↗

Team Lead — Machine Learning & Modeling Expert

Lead the development of an AI-driven cyclone-forecasting and localized preparedness-guidance system with the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, integrating impact-based forecasting, geospatial risk information, and retrieval-augmented generation. The project was featured in the EW4All report developed with contributions from the World Meteorological Organization, UNDRR, ITU, and IFRC.

Forecasting RAG · LLM Geospatial Data
03 — Research
Cyclone track prediction architecture Amphan predicted vs actual track 01
Expert Systems with Applications · Elsevier · 317, 131972 (2026)

Physics-Guided Non-Autoregressive Transformer for Lightweight Cyclone Track Prediction in the Bay of Bengal

Abrar Faiaz, Alphy Shaharin, Md. Mafizur Rahman, Md. Bazlur Rashid, S.M. Quamrul Hasan

DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2026.131972 ↗
Cyclo-ETR-CBM architecture Cyclone intensity estimation results 02
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · Elsevier · Under review

Physics-Informed Concept Bottleneck Networks for Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation from Infrared Satellite Imagery

Abrar Faiaz, Rajit Raihan, Md. Mafizur Rahman, Md. Bazlur Rashid, S.M. Quamrul Hasan

PM2.5 actual vs predicted Air-quality forecasting results 03
Advances in Civil Engineering Materials · Springer · LNCE 466, pp. 189–198 (2024)

Forecasting Air Quality by Estimating PM2.5 Concentration Level Using k-Nearest Neighbor Model in Gazipur, Bangladesh

Rafi Uddin, Abrar Faiaz, Sk. Rakibul Islam

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-0751-5_19 ↗
Leakage-aware landfall forecasting framework: target construction, survival models and conformal calibration Landfall-time forecasts for Remal, Michaung and Mocha with observed times and 50% and 90% uncertainty intervals 04
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review · In revision

Leakage-Aware Probabilistic Cyclone Landfall Forecasting in the Bay of Bengal Using Censored Survival Learning and Conformal Uncertainty

Abrar Faiaz, Alphy Shaharin, Mostafijur Rahman Farhad, Md. Mafizur Rahman

A storm-grouped chronological benchmark for landfall occurrence, timing and coastal location, combining censored survival learning with lead-time-stratified conformal uncertainty.

Framework & case-study results · Hover or focus to compare

Raw ECMWF cyclone track errors over lead time, including direct position and directional errors Held-out coastal landfall probability calibration results with storm-cluster bootstrap confidence intervals 05
ECMWF ensemble forecasting · Ongoing · Not yet submitted

Coastline-Aware Calibration of Operational Ensemble Cyclone Track Uncertainty over the Bay of Bengal

Abrar Faiaz

Evaluating ECMWF TIGGE ensemble track uncertainty and coastline-aware landfall calibration through independent-storm verification, selective track correction and probabilistic post-processing.

Track errors & landfall calibration · Hover or focus to compare

NSysS ’24 · ACM · pp. 154–162 (2024)

Intrusion Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network: A Color Mapping Approach on NSL-KDD Dataset

Abrar Faiaz, Dipankar Mitra, Ranat Das Prangon

DOI: 10.1145/3704522.3704541 ↗
NSysS ’24 · ACM · pp. 247–253 (2024)

Short Paper: AI-Driven Disaster Warning System: Integrating Predictive Data with LLM for Contextualized Guideline Generation

Abrar Faiaz, Nowshin Nawar

DOI: 10.1145/3704522.3704549 ↗
CECAR10 · 2024

Advances and Challenges in Soil Erosion Modeling and Prediction: A Comprehensive Review

Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR10)

04 — Projects

Things I’ve built.

05 — Awards

Awards & honors.

  • Silver Medalist — 5th International Data Science Olympiad (Competition Segment)
    2025 Silver Medalist, IDSO
  • Sustainability Award — Bangkok Business Challenge
    2026 Sustainability Award, Bangkok Business Challenge
  • Runners-Up — International Nature-based Future Challenge
    2026 Runners-Up, Nature-based Future Challenge
  • Bronze Medalist — 5th International Data Science Olympiad (Conference Segment)
    2025 Bronze Medalist, IDSO
  • Champion — Disaster Hackathon 2.0
    2024 Champion, Disaster Hackathon 2.0
  • Gold Medalist — World Invention Competition & Exhibition (National Round)
    2025 Gold Medalist, WICE
  • 1st Runners-Up — RIMES Mapathon
    2026 1st Runners-Up, RIMES Mapathon
  • Finalist — ACI Eco Concrete Competition (7th Globally)
    2025 Finalist, ACI Eco Concrete
  • Pre-Seed Funding — Research & Innovation Centre for Science and Engineering
    2025 Pre-Seed Funding, RICSE
  • Champion — Sustainable Concrete Solution Competition, ACI BUET SC
    2024 Champion, Sustainable Concrete Solution
  • 2nd Runner-Up — Poster Presentation, ACI Students Chapter Meet
    2025 2nd Runner-Up, Poster Presentation
  • Finalist — Deep Learning Sprint, BUET CSE Fest
    2024 Finalist, Deep Learning Sprint
  • Runners-Up — BUET MECHA FEST
    2026 Runners-Up, BUET MECHA FEST
06 — Contact

Let’s collaborate on ideas that matters.

abrarfaiaz20@gmail.com
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