Intern

National Center for Supercomputing Applications
June 2025 - August 2025 · Urbana, IL

• Improved CONECTnet reliability across 50+ resource providers using Layer 3 VPN on Internet2
• Deployed and optimized Globus and perfSONAR, boosting data throughput by 30% in tests environments
• Conducted network performance analysis and connectivity optimization for 10+ RPs, reducing latency and loss

Graduate Research Assistant

The University of Toledo
August 2023 - Present · Toledo, OH

• Developed TARDIS, a power-aware HPC scheduler using GNNs, cost reduction: 18% (temporal), 10-20% (spatial)
• Developed LASP, a multi-armed bandit-based tuning strategy for HPC on edge devices, achieving 2.5% average performance gain over default settings.
• Developed a SST-based scalable job scheduler, ensuring high accuracy in wait times, node usage, parallelization

Visitor

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
August 2024 - December 2024 · Remote

• Set up CouchDB, Chords, and Streampipes on ACCESS Jetstreams for community weather data storage
• Built data orchestrator for efficient data routing, achieving 30% transmission efficiency gain
• Reduced deployment costs by 25% for communities implementing the project

Intern

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
May 2024 - August 2024 · Boulder, CO

• Designed private LoRa network for 6+ data types with Raspberry Pi gateways and central server
• Improved wind forecasting with edge-ML, achieving 20% accuracy gain on Raspberry Pi
• Image analysis with TensorFlow, 25% accuracy gain, 3x faster training, and 95% precision on 10,000+ images

2025

1. “Power-Aware Scheduling for Multi-Center HPC Electricity Cost Optimization”
   Abrar Hossain, Abubeker Abdurahman, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, Kishwar Ahmed
   International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2025)

2. “Enhanced Intrusion Detection in IIoT Networks: A Lightweight Approach with Autoencoder-Based Feature Learning”
   Tasnimul Hasan, Abrar Hossain, Mufakir Qamar Ansari, Talha Hussain Syed
   International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS 2025)

2024

1. “HPC Application Parameter Autotuning on Edge Devices: A Bandit Learning Approach”
   Abrar Hossain, Abdel-Hameed Badawy, Mohammad Atiqul Islam, Tapasya Patki, Kishwar Ahmed
   IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC'24)

2. “Scalable HPC Job Scheduling and Resource Management in SST”
   Abubeker Abdurahman, Abrar Hossain, Kevin A Brown, Kazutomo Yoshii, Kishwar Ahmed
   Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'24)

3. “Environmental Data Sensing and Monitoring System Using Community-based Private LoRa Network”
   Abrar Hossain, Keith Maull, Agbeli Ameko American Geophysical Union (AGU'24)

2023

3. “Automating HPC Model Selection on Edge Devices”
   Abrar Hossain, Kishwar Ahmed
   International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'23)

Reviewer

• PEARC'25 Tutorials and Workshops

Student Volunteer

• HiPC'24
• AGU'24

• [June'25] Started Internship at NCSA. Will be working with the NDTS team

• [May'25] Received UToledo Graduate Research Assistant Recognition Award

• [April'25] Attended Midwest RCD Workshop in Cleveland, OH

• [March'25] Our paper got accepted to IPDPS JSSPP'25

• [March'25] Received 2025 Midwest Research Computing and Data Travel Grant

• [March'25] Received 2024 Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund Scholarship

• [February'25] Served as Reviewer for PEARC'25

• [February'25] Our paper got accepted to IoTBDS'24

• [December'24] Presented my NSF NCAR openIoTwx project at AGU'25

• [December'24] Received 2024 IEEE HiPC TCPP Travel Grant

• [November'24] Received 2024 Friends Education Fund Travel Grant

• [November'24] Received 2024 AGU Student Travel Grant

• [October'24] Our paper got accepted to HiPC'24

• [October'24] Received 2024 SIParCS Student Travel Grant

• [June'24] Our paper got accepted to WSC'24

• [August'24] Started Internship at NCSA. Will be working the NDTS team

• [May'24] Extended my tenure at NSF NCAR as a visitior

• [March'24] Started Internship at NSF NCAR. Will be working the openIoTwx team

• [September'23] Our poster got accepted to SC'23

Internship Presentations

Environmental Data Sensing and Monitoring System Using Community-based Private LoRa Network