Hasan Kurban is an Assistant Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and Founding Director of the Kurban Intelligence Lab (KIL), with adjunct appointments at Indiana University Bloomington and Texas A&M University at Qatar. His research investigates the foundations of trustworthy and interpretable large-scale AI systems, drawing on methods from machine learning, statistical inference, and the natural sciences. Ongoing work in the lab spans trustworthy AI and foundation model interpretability, reasoning and inference-time compute, agentic AI and LLM agents, multimodal foundation models, and AI for science — with applications to materials informatics, quantum chemistry, biomedical imaging, and energy systems. The lab's work has appeared at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP, and KDD, and in IEEE Transactions, Machine Learning, and Nature-family journals.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics from Indiana University Bloomington in 2017, serves on the editorial board of a Nature-family journal, and reviews regularly for leading AI and data-science venues. Research in the lab is supported by the Qatar Research Development and Innovation Council, TÜBİTAK, and partner research universities.

For a comprehensive overview of research and teaching activities, please see the curriculum vitae.