Curriculum Vitae
RESEARCH INTEREST
MD ASHAD ALAM, PhD
Instructor of Statistics and Data Science
Division of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics
John W. Deming Department of Medicine
School of Medicine, Tulane University
1440 Canal St., RM 1621C, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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Curriculum Vitae
Research Interest
Academic History
Research Interest
Research and Teaching Experience
As a statistical scientist, my research interests are in the areas of theoretical and computational aspects of statistical machine learning, deep learning, robust statistics, and adversarial machine learning. I work for the integrated analysis of multi-view data in biomedical applications. Projects which aim to reveal new fundamental biological insights of complex diseases, as well as those centered on more clinical applications both appeal to me.
Statistical machine learning: dimensionality reduction, feature selection, non-parametric models, and inference methods for integrative analyses of multi-omics biomedical data including genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, lipidome, and medical image of complex diseases.
Deep learning: the advances in deep learning technologies provide new effective paradigms to obtain end-to-end learning models from complex, high-dimensional, and heterogeneous biomedical data. Deep learning approaches could be a vehicle for translating big biomedical data into improved human health.
Robust and adversarial machine learning: non-parametric inference, the robustness of linear multivariate approaches, the robustness of kernel methods, and incorporate as well as invent adversarial machine learning techniques for given complex diseases prediction using a multi-view biomedical dataset.
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Topological data analysis: methods for imposing a geometry, visualizing a geometry, and method on persistent homology.
Academic History
Tulane University, USA (Jananuary 2019 - )
Department of Global Biostatistics and Data Science
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Topic: Adversarial learning for multi-view data fusion to characterize complex diseases
Advisor: Professor Hong-Wen Deng, Ph.D.
Tulane University, USA (Novermber 2015 – September 2017)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Topic: Extraction and integration of biomarkers from multi-modality kernel-based genomic techniques.
Advisor: Professor Yu-Ping Wang, Ph.D.
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan (October 2009 - September 2014)
PhD. in Statistical Science
Dissertation Topic: “Kernel Choice of Unsupervised Kernel Methods”
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Kenji Fukumizu
The University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh (Jualy 1998 - July 2004)
M.Sc. in Statistics, Title: Robustness of correlation analysis
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Mohammed Nesser
B. Sc. (Hons.) Major: Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science.
Research and Teaching Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow January 2019 to present
Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
Visiting Research Fellow March 03, 2018 – March 19, 2018
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
University of Fukui, Fukui-Shi, Fukui 910-8507, Japan.
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Professor January 15, 2018 - Jan 15, 2019
Department of Statistics
Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University, Bangladesh
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow November 16, 2015 - September 8, 2017
Department of Biomedical Engineering
School of Science and Engineering
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
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Research Fellow October 1, 2014 - October 11, 2014
Center for Statistical Machine Learning
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo 190-0014, Japan
Research Assistant November 15, 2009 - Sept 30, 2014
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Fukumizu’s Lab, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo 190-0014, Japan
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Associate Professor September 4, 2013 - November 15, 2015
Department of Statistics
Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University
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Assistant Professor January 16, 2008 - Sept.3, 2013
Department of Statistics
Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University
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Lecturer September 4, 2005 - January 15, 2008 Department of Statistics
Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University, Dinajpur-5200, Bangladesh.