Anwar Said is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA. Prior to that, he was a postdoc at Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Information Technology University (ITU) under the supervision of Dr. Saeed Ul Hassan and Dr. Mudassir Shabbir and was a member of Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research primarily intersects the fields of data science and machine learning, with a focus on graph representation learning, social network analysis, and graph theory with applications in Anhedonia detection, drug discovery and development, social networks and education. He is actively participates in top conferences and journals in these domains, contributing through both publications and serving as a PC member and a reviewer. His works have been published in renowned venues such as NeurIPS, Neurocomputing, Applied Soft Computing, and TKDE, among others.