Dr. Md Meftahul Ferdaus is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans, working under Dr. Mahdi Abdelguerfi at the Canizaro-Livingston Gulf States Center for Environmental Informatics (GulfSCEI). He earned his PhD from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 2019, his MSc in Mechatronics Engineering from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), where he received the Engineering Faculty Best Student Award, and his BSc from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Bangladesh. Before joining UNO, he served as a Scientist at the Air Traffic Management Research Institute (ATMRI), Nanyang Technological University, and A*STAR, Singapore. His research spans machine learning, computer vision, trustworthy AI, neuro-fuzzy systems, few-shot learning, and lightweight neural networks for edge deployment. At GulfSCEI, he leads work on AI-driven infrastructure inspection, ocean forecasting, and environmental informatics, and serves as PI on a Naval Research Laboratory grant for physics-informed ocean modeling. He has authored 91 publications with over 1,859 citations and an h-index of 22, including papers in ACM Computing Surveys, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, and multiple IEEE Transactions journals. He has received best paper awards at AIMLSystems 2024, ICRAT 2022, and the First International Conference on Technologies for Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.