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Tozammel Hossain

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Information Science

College: College of Information

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

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

Current Scheduled Teaching

INFO 5707.020Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsFall 2024 Syllabus
INFO 5707.401Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsFall 2024
INFO 5900.407Special ProblemsFall 2024
INFO 6900.022Special ProblemsFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

INFO 5707.003Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsSummer 10W 2024 SPOT
INFO 6900.709Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2024
INFO 5707.001Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsSpring 2024 SPOT
INFO 5707.003Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsSpring 2024 SPOT
INFO 5707.004Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsSpring 2024 SPOT
INFO 5707.005Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsSpring 2024 SPOT
INFO 5707.020Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsSpring 2024 SPOT
INFO 5900.735Special ProblemsSpring 2024 SPOT
INFO 6900.735Special ProblemsSpring 2024 SPOT
INFO 5707.003Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsFall 2023 SPOT
INFO 5707.023Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsFall 2023 SPOT
INFO 5910.004Special ProblemsFall 2023
INFO 5707.003Data Modeling for Information ProfessionalsSummer 10W 2023 SPOT
INFO 5502.021Principles and Techniques for Data ScienceSpring 2023 SPOT
INFO 5502.001Principles and Techniques for Data ScienceFall 2022 SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Thapa, B., Hossain, T. (2024). Effectiveness of Windbreaks in Reducing Crop Loss in the Midwest, USA. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.
  • 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

  • Dubey, P., Hossain, T., Kuborn, S., Mirielli, E. Characterizing the behavioral trends and morals of expiration dating using Reddit discourse. Journal of Computational Social Science.
  • Nussbaum, Y., Hossain, T., Kaifi, J., Warren, W., Shyu, C., Mitchem, J. Identifying Gene Expression Programs in Single-cell RNA-seq Data using Linear Correlation Explanation. Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier).
  • Akash, R., Islam, R., Islam, S., Hossain, T. Predicting Cervix Type and Cervical Cell Abnormalities Based on Multi-Structural Convolutional Neural Network. Healthcare Analytics (ScienceDirect).
  • Karanam, L., Ponnaganti, N.S., Mohammed, Z., Hossain, T. Continuous Anticipation of AKI with Precursors in the ICU using Time- Gated LSTMs. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Information.
  • Maruf, A.A., Parvez, M., Yanhaona, M.N., Sadeque, F.Y., Hossain, T. EPICON: Editors’ Picks with Informative Comments in Online News.
  • 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.

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).
  • 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. (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. (2024 - 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. (2022 - 2024).
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    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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