Intern

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

• Built parser for eBPF maps for 80+ VLANs and ports with configurable polling intervals via REST API
• Integrated with InfluxDB v3 for efficient storage and Grafana for real-time visualization
• Added configurable logging, reducing manual reconfiguration time by 40%

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 (JSSPP 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)

3. “CROSS- HPC System Bayesian Optimization with Adaptive Transfer”
   Abrar Hossain, Kishwar Ahmed
   IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 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
• PEARC'25 Poster and Visualization

Student Volunteer

• PEARC'25
• HiPC'24
• AGU'24

• [August'25] Received Cluster 2025 NSF Travel Grant

• [August'25] Our poster got accepted to CLUSTER'25 to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland

• [August'25] Attended 2025 CI4FAIR Workshop held at Purdue University

• [July'25] Served as Session chair for Systems and Software Systems Track Session at PEARC'25

• [July'25] Served as Poster and Visualization Judge at PEARC'25

• [July'25] Served as Student Volunteer at PEARC'25

• [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, Ohio

• [March'25] Our paper got accepted to JSSPP'25 to be held in Milan, Italy

• [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 to be held in Bangalore, India

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

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

• [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