Faculty
Anowarul Kabir
Assistant Professor
ENB 327
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Biography
Anowarul Kabir is an assistant professor at the USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing. He contributes to teaching in AI, machine learning, and data mining while continuing his research on knowledge-guided deep learning methods. Kabir is the founder of the Kabir鈥檚 AI for Bio Lab at USF. Prior to joining the college in 2025, Kabir worked in the Shehu AI Lab at George Mason University as well as the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico. Before his academic research career, Kabir worked in software development, including roles at Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh and Streams Tech Inc.
Research Interests
Kabir specializes in AI-enabled biological discovery, using machine learning, deep
learning, and foundation models to unlock new insights from molecular biology data.
He contributed to the development of multi-modal deep learning algorithms for protein
function prediction, variant effect understanding, and explainable large-scale protein
language models. His research on the Transcription Factor 鈥� DNA binding site prediction
is one of the pioneering works in the physics-guided computational genomics field.
He has collaborated with institutions such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific
Northwest Research Institute, and the Children鈥檚 National Hospital, contributing to
projects that integrate biological knowledge with advanced machine learning methods.
His work has earned multiple best paper awards and has been published in journals
such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, and Biomolecules and he collaborated
on several successful grants from the National Science Foundation.
Honors and Awards
Scholarly awards include two best papers honors, one for a paper titled 鈥淎 Comparative Analysis of Transformer-based Protein Language Models for Remote Homology Prediction鈥� at the Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop and another for a paper titled 鈥淎nalysis of AlphaFold2 for Modeling Structures of Wildtype and Variant Protein Sequences鈥� at BICOB 2022. Kabir has also received two first prize awards, one at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Inter University Software Competition, Sylhet, Bangladesh and one at the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) Code Warriors Challenge.
Education
He earned a PhD in Computer Science from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from the University of Dhaka in Dhaka, Bangladesh.