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.

Mar 2026 — Present

ShopNot ↗

Chief Technology Officer

Leading development of an AI-powered search engine for wearables spanning 400+ stores across Bangladesh. Built the end-to-end search & discovery stack — embedding-based retrieval, image search, and scalable scraping pipelines for product matching, ranking, and search across fragmented e-commerce sources.

Embedding Retrieval Image Search Scalable Pipelines
Apr 2025 — Present

Start Network Bangladesh ↗

Team Lead — Machine Learning & Modeling Expert

Developing an AI-powered cyclone-prediction system for the Bangladesh Meteorological Department — combining ML forecasting of cyclone metrics with a retrieval-augmented LLM that generates localized advisories for actionable decision support in high-impact climate settings.

Forecasting RAG · LLM Geospatial Data
03 — Research
Cyclone track prediction architecture Amphan predicted vs actual track 01
Expert Systems with Applications · Elsevier

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 PM2.5 actual vs predicted over time 02
Information Fusion · Elsevier · Under review

Cyclo-ETR-CBM: VLM-VQA-Guided Semantic and Thermodynamic Information Fusion for Interpretable Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation

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

PM2.5 actual vs predicted Cyclone intensity case study 03
Advances in Civil Engineering Materials · Springer

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 ↗
Mean DPE sensitivity heatmaps Sidr track calibration 04
Operational Forecasting · In preparation

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

Abrar Faiaz

NSysS ’24

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

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.

Neural Dashboard
BrainV2
FEATURED · ON DEVELOPMENT

BrainV2

Software that predicts how your audience will feel — modeling emotional response to creative and content before it ships.

Visit the dashboard ↗
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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