Abrar Rahman Abir

Abrar Rahman Abir

I am Abrar Rahman Abir, a CS PhD student at University of California, Berkeley,advised by Dr. Allon Wagner. From the very beginning of my undergraduate journey, I have been deeply passionate about Computational Biology and Machine Learning. My profound fascination for Mathematics drives me to explore the vast realm of Machine Learning, and I am particularly excited by the challenge of designing novel machine learning methods to address complex biological problems.

My research spans multiple domains, with a strong publication record :

  • Machine Learning
  • Generative Models for Biology
  • Single-cell and Spatial transcriptomics
  • Single-cell and Spatial metabolomics
Portrait of Abrar Rahman Abir

Publications

  1. AbFlowNet: Optimizing Antibody-Antigen Binding Energy via Diffusion-GFlowNet Fusion Abrar Rahman Abir*, Haz Sameen Shahgir*, Md Rownok Zahan Ratul, Md Toki Tahmid, Greg Ver Steeg, Yue Dong
    NeurIPS, 2026
  2. UnCOT-AD: Unpaired Cross-Omics Translation Enables Multi-Omics Integration for Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction Abrar Rahman Abir, Sajib Acharjee Dip, Liqing Zhang
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2025
  3. LOCAS: Multi-label mRNA Localization with Supervised Contrastive Learning
    Abrar Rahman Abir*, Md Toki Tahmid*, M Saifur Rahman
    NeurIPS MLSB Workshop, 2024
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2025
  4. GTG-ACO: Graph Transformer Guided Ant Colony Optimization for Learning Heuristics and Pheromone Dynamics for Combinatorial Optimization Abrar Rahman Abir, Adnan Arefeen, Muhammad Ali Nayeem, M Sohel Rahman
    Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2025
  5. DeepRNA-Twist: Language Model Guided RNA Torsion Angle Prediction with Attention-Inception Network Abrar Rahman Abir, Md Toki Tahmid, Rafiqul Islam Rayan, M Saifur Rahman
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2025
  6. BioLLMNet: Enhancing RNA-Interaction Prediction with a Specialized Cross-LLM Transformation Network Abrar Rahman Abir*, Md Toki Tahmid*, Md Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2025
  7. RNA-EFM: Energy-based Flow Matching for Protein-conditioned RNA Sequence-Structure Co-design Abrar Rahman Abir, Liqing Zhang
    ICLR GEM Workshop, 2025
    Bioinformatics Advances, 2025
  8. DCGAT-DTI: Dynamic Cross Graph Attention Network for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction Abrar Rahman Abir, Muhtasim Noor Alif, Khandakar Tanvir Ahmed, Wei Zhang
    Bioinformatics Advances, 2025
  9. CFM-GP: Unified Conditional Flow Matching to Learn Gene Perturbation Across Cell Types Abrar Rahman Abir*, Sajib Acharjee Dip*, Liqing Zhang
    NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2026
  10. Use of CPT and Other Parameters for Estimating Soil Unit Weight using Optimised Machine Learning Models Swaranjit Roy, Abrar Rahman Abir, Mehedi A Ansary
    Earth Science Informatics, 2025
  11. A Machine Learning Based Novel Approach of Predicting International Roughness Index (IRI) from Traffic Characteristics using Random Forest Regression Abrar Rahman Abir
    Proceedings of the 6th Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference, 2023
  12. ST-DISTAL: Learning Spatial Transcriptomics Deconvolution via Spectral-Spatial Dual-Branch GCNs with Distributional Alignment Abrar Rahman Abir, Muhtasim Noor Alif, Wei Zhang
  13. MACS: Multi-Domain Adaptation Facilitates Accurate Connectomics Segmentation Abrar Rahman Abir, Anik Saha, Md Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
    Under Review at Briefings in Bioinformatics
  14. MExConn: A Mechanistically Interpretable Multi-Expert Framework for Multi-Organelle Segmentation in Connectomics Abrar Rahman Abir*, Anik Saha*, Shashata Sawmya, Thomas L. Athey, Nir N Shavit, Md Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
  15. MOXGATE: Modality-Aware Cross-Attention for Multi-Omic Gastrointestinal Cancer Sub-type Classification Sajib Acharjee Dip, UA Shuvo, D Mallick, Abrar Rahman Abir, Liqing Zhang
    Accepted at ICLR Workshop on AI for Nucleic Acids, 2025
  • Abrar Rahman Abir, Md Toki Tahmid, M Saifur Rahman
    Multi-Label Contrastive Learning Augmented mRNA Subcellular Localization Prediction Leveraging RNA Language Model
    ISMB, 2024
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    Education

    University of California, Berkeley

    PhD in Computer Science (Fall 2026 - Present)

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