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Innovation and Teaching are my passion. Currently, I am working as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at Indiana University Kokomo. My teaching experience comprises different-level diverse classrooms. The primary goal of my CS Innovation research group is to foster CS Education and Health Sciences.
I have also co-founded a software company. The primary goal of this company is to promote innovation and build a bridge between industry and academia.
On top, I am involved with a non-profit organization (eutb.ca); dedicated to financially assisting the underprivileged talents of Bangladesh to continue their education.
Alongside Academic degrees, I have completed the Mitacs Project Management Certification I and II.
In Computer Science (CS) the freshman and sophomore years attrition rate can be as high as 40%, depending on institutes. The main reason behind this high attrition is lack of computational thinking ability, a must-have skill for a student to formulate a solution of a problem as computational steps or algorithms. In this research project, we are presenting a virtual reality assistant, which would provide one-to-one mathematics education at the elementary level with a focus on computational thinking. The broader impact of this research is to produce highly skilled computational thinking students, leading to a lower rate of CS attrition.
Higher attrition in CS is a matter that must be studied globally and addressed locally. This research was designed to investigate, identify, and mitigate the variables associated with higher attrition for the benefit of current and future students. The population of this study includes 27,540 students from twenty-three different courses offered at seven campuses across the state of Indiana. Through data analysis, several leading contributors to withdrawal are identified. However, some causes are ungovernable, interdisciplinary, and will open doors for future research.
In this study, we examine the notion of course bottlenecks and their prevalence in various academic courses, particularly those in which a higher-than-average number of students experience failure. Subsequently, we delve into the features of a knowledge discovery software tool that has the capability to identify course bottlenecks and present the findings through a user-friendly graphical interface, accompanied by comprehensible explanations.
This project is generously supported by an NSF grant and represents an external collaboration between my laboratory and the DM research group at IUPUI. We have successfully implemented a web system, essentially a knowledge base, which presently houses over a thousand records, with its database expanding daily. One of the primary utilities of this knowledge base is to facilitate further research in the realms of computer science-related NLP and Deep Learning.
Our current research focus centers on the automatic extraction of phrases specific to the Computer Science domain. The inherent domain-specificity of these phrases sets our work apart from conventional phrase extraction techniques, rendering our task all the more challenging. Our forthcoming project will revolve around link prediction.
Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Software Engineering McMaster University. Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaM.Sc.
M.Sc. in Computer Science Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
B.Sc.
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering,</br>
Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology.</br>
Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Publication
“Fostering Active Learning in Introductory Programming Courses by Utilizing Multiple Programming Tools and Enrichment Activities,”
H. Liu, N. Hossain, and A. Alnusair,
14th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers (ICETC 2022). ACM Press. Barcelona, Spain (2022)
“A Machine Learning based Proposition for Automated and Methodical Prediction of Liver Disease”
Shorove Tajmen, Asif Karim, Aunik Hasan Mridul, Al-Amin Dhaly, Pronab Ghosh, Enamul Haque, Md Nour Hossain
ICCCM 2022, Okayama University, Japan.
“A Tale of Two Zones : Pandemic ERT Evaluation”
Enamul Haque, Shahana Shultana, Tarnima WardaAndalib, Iqbal H. Sarker, Md Nour Hossain
KES 2021 United Kingdom.
“IoT Privacy and Security in Teaching Institutions: Inside The Classroom and Beyond”
KeeJoh O’Hearon , Michael Mckee , Md Nour Hossain, M. Abdullah Canbaz,
ASEE 2021, Long Beach, California, USA.
“Towards Automatic Aspect Introduction and Analysis Using Temporal Theories in HETS”
Md Nour Hossain, Wolfram Kahl,
WADT 2018, Egham, London, UK (extended abstract accepted).
“A Graph Transformation Approach to Introducing Aspects into Software architectures”
Md Nour Hossain, Wolfram Kahl, Tom Maibaum,
ME Workshop 2017, Austin, Texas, US
“Introducing Aspects in Software Architecture by Graph Transformation”
Md Nour Hossain, Tom Maibaum,
NECSIS Workshop 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Reasoning about Object-Oriented Programs”,
Md Nour Hossain, Michael Winter,
MSc thesis, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.
“VOOP – An Interactive Proof Assistant for Object-Oriented Programs”
Md Nour Hossain, Michael Winter,
mapping the new knowledge 2011, Brock University.
Awards
Design and implementation of a semi-automatic visual tool for identifying course bottlenecks.
Awarded ($10000.00)
IU Summer Academy for Curriculum Analysis and Improvement (SACAI)
CTVRK-1: Design a One-to-One Virtual Reality Assistant (K-1) to Master Computational Thinking for KG and G1 Students.
Awarded ($8500.00)IUK Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2022.
Building a Bridge Between Industry and Black America: An Effort to Gradually Diminish the Racial Wealth Gap.
Awarded ($15000)IU intercampus Funding,
Ungovernable Origins Behind CS and Informatics Attrition
Awarded ($5000.00)IU Summer Academy for Curriculum Analysis and Improvement (SACAI)
A Successful Pathway to Computer Science College Education: Ensure High-quality Computer Science Experience for High School Students and Teachers.
Awarded ($6000)IUK Summer Faculty Fellowship,
Lack of mathematical and analytical foundation: The ungovernable origin behind Computer Science higher attrition.
Awarded ($4000.00)IUK Grants-in-Aids, 2020.
Indiana University Kokomo
2300 S. Washington St. Kokomo, IN 46902
Assistant Professor
McMaster University
1280 Main St W, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
Sessional Faculty
Seneca College
1750 Finch Ave E, North York, ON M2J 2X5, Canada
College Professor
Aamira Inc.
Kokomo, IN, 46902 USA
Co-founder
A Few Technical Skills
