Faculty Profile

Tozammel Hossain

Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Information Science
College
College of Information

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, Virginia Tech, 2016. 
Major: Computer Science and Applications
Dissertation Title: Couplings for Modeling Evolutionary Constraints and Improving Multiple Sequence Alignments
MS, Virginia Tech, 2014. 
Major: Computer Science and Applications





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
INFO 5707.003, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Summer 2024 
INFO 5707.001, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Spring 2024 
INFO 5707.003, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Spring 2024 
INFO 5707.004, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Spring 2024 
INFO 5707.005, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Spring 2024 
INFO 5707.020, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Spring 2024 
INFO 5900.735, Special Problems, Spring 2024 
INFO 6900.735, Special Problems, Spring 2024 


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    INFO 5707.003, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    INFO 5707.023, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Fall 2023  SPOT
                    

                    INFO 5910.004, Special Problems, Fall 2023 
                    

                    INFO 5707.003, Data Modeling for Information Professionals, Summer 10W 2023  SPOT
                    

                    INFO 5502.021, Principles and Techniques for Data Science, Spring 2023  SPOT
                    

                    INFO 5502.001, Principles and Techniques for Data Science, Fall 2022  SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Conference Proceeding
Hossain, T., Alam, F.  (2023). Assessing the Effect of Non-Pharmaceutical Inventions on Infectious Disease Epidemics using Structural Causal Model. Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS). 
Rostami, M., Hossain, T.  (2023). Health and Wellness Influencers' Role in COVID-19 Misinformation: Social Influence Perspective. Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS). 
Nguyen, H., Chen, H., Maganti, R., Hossain, T., Ding, J.  Identifying High-quality Informative Comments for Software Review Summarization. IEEE AITest. 
Karanam, L., Yi, K., Shae, Z., Chang, D., Shyu, C., Hossain, T.  (2022). Continuous Anticipation of AKI in the ICU using Time-Gated LSTMs. AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference. 
Morstatter, F., Galstyan, A., Satyukov, G., Benjamin, D., Abeliuk, A., Mirtaheri, M., Hossain, T.  (2019). SAGE: A Hybrid Geopolitical Event Forecasting System. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 
Mirtaheri, M., Abu-El-Haija, S., Hossain, T., Morstatter, F., Galstyan, A.  (2019). Tensor-based Method for Temporal Geopolitical Event Forecasting. International Conference on Machine Learning Workshop. 
Journal Article
Benjamin, D., Morstatter, F., Abbas, A., Abeliuk, A., Atanasov, P., Bennett, S., Beger, A., Birari, S., Budescu, D., Catasta, M., Ferrara, E., Haravitch, L., Himmelstein, M., Hossain, T., Huang, Y., Jin, W., Joseph, R., Leskovec, J., Matsui, A., Mirtaheri, M., Ren, X., Satyukov, G., Sethi, R., Singh, A., Sosic, R., Steyvers, M., Szekely, P., Ward, M., Galstyan, A.  Hybrid Forecasting of Geopolitical Events. 
Hossain, T., Harutyunyan, H., Ning, Y., Kennedy, B., Ramakrishnan, N., Galstyan, A.  (2022). Identifying geopolitical event precursors using attention-based LSTMs. Other. 
P., Shyu, C., Putrd, K. T., Chen, H., Tsai, Y., Hossain, T., Jiang, W., Shae, Z.  (2021). A Systematic Review of Federated Learning in the Healthcare Area: from the perspective of Data Properties and Applications. Other. 11(23), 11191. 
Mosa, A., Thongmotai, C., Islam, H., Pal, T., Hossain, T., Mandhadi, V.  (2021). Evaluation of Machine Learning Applications using Real-World EHR Data for Predicting Diabetes-Related Long-Term Complications. Journal of Business Analytics. 1-11. 
Hossain, T., Gao, S., Kennedy, B., Galstyan, A., Natarajan, P.  (2020). Forecasting violent events in the Middle East and North Africa using HMM and regularized autoregressive models. Other. 17(3), 269–283. 
Chen, L., Hossain, T., Butler, P., Ramakrishnan, N., Prakash, B.  (2016). Syndromic Surveillance of Flu on Twitter using Weakly Supervised Temporal Topic Models. Other. 30, 681–710. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research  

 	 
	 	 
  
Grant - Research   
Hossain, T. (Principal), "Acute Kidney Injury Anticipation with Precursors in ICU patients," Sponsored by College of Information, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2023 – Present).
Hossain, G. (Principal), Chang, H. (Co-Principal), Lund, B. (Co-Principal), Hossain, T. (Co-Principal), Hawamdeh, S. M. (Co-Principal), "Cyber-CREWS: Minority Community Cybersecurity Research, Educational Engagement, Workforce Development, and Security Best Practices," Sponsored by Department of Homeland Security, Federal, $999688 Funded. (July 2023 – 2028).
Ding, J. (Principal), Kinshuk, X. (Co-Principal), Fu, S. (Co-Principal), Ludi, S. A. (Co-Principal), Chen, H. (Co-Principal), Hossain, T. (Co-Principal), Xiao, T. (Co-Principal), Feng, Y. (Co-Principal), Cleveland, A. D. (Co-Principal), Smith, D. L. (Co-Principal), Mankins, N. (Co-Principal), Booker, D. D. (Co-Principal), Carrillo, D. (Co-Principal), "NSF Includes ARISE Alliance Membership," Sponsored by Arizona State University, Other, $64800 Funded. (January 16, 2024 – January 15, 2027).
Sponsored Research   
Lovell, S. T. (Principal), Thapa, B. (Co-Principal), Hossain, T. (Co-Principal), Zhen, C. (Co-Principal), Guinan, P. E. (Co-Principal), "Agroforestry for Climate Risk Management: Effectiveness of Windbreaks in Reducing Crop Loss In Midwest, USA," Sponsored by USDA, Federal, $234644 Funded. (January 2022 – December 2024).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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