Dr. Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain, Ph.D. (Engineering), is currently serving as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Aliah University, Kolkata. His research interests include Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science.

Email Address: mosaddek [dot] hossain [at] aliah [dot] ac [dot] in

Orcid:0000-0003-0174-2359

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Courses Taught/Teaching

• Database Management Systems
• Compiler Design
• Object Oriented Programming (Java)
• Data Mining
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• Operating Systems
• Data Science
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Operations Research
• Computational Mathematics
• Numerical Methods
• Probability and Statistics

Research Area

• Computational Biology (Bioinformatics)
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Generative AI
• Data Science

Experience

Academic Administration related to Teaching & Research (selected):

• Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from 10th December 2025 to date.
• Chairperson, Departmental Research Committee (DRC), Dept of CSE.
• Chairperson, Research Advisory Committee (RAC), Dept of CSE.
• Head (Officiating), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering from May 2016 to October 2017.
• Chairman, Purchase Committee (Computers and Software) from May 2016 to October 2017.
• Member, Common Engineering Curriculum Committee, Aliah University.
• Key architect of designing updated curriculum and syllabus for Dept of Computer Science and Engineering as per the latest AICTE/UGC CBCS guidelines.
• Coordinator / (Member), Time Table and Class Allocation Committee, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering.
• Member of the Purchase Committee (Computers and Software) from October 2017 to November 2018.
• Worked as a Member of the Central Examination Committee of Aliah University.
• Coordinator, Departmental Examination Committee (CSE) till October 2017.
• Coordinator, B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) from November 2017 to January 2022.

Conference Papers Published

International Conferences:

[C6] Lutfunnesa Khatun, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Sumanta Ray, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “An Autoencoder-based Deep Learning Approach for Classifying Colon and Rectum Adenocarcinoma”, [IEEE] The 14th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT) - 2023; IIT Delhi, DOI: 10.1109/ICCCNT56998.2023.10307053, Electronic ISBN: 979-8-3503-3509-5.

[C5] Lutfunnesa Khatun, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Sumanta Ray, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Classifying breast invasive carcinoma subtypes: A feature selection-based machine learning approach”, [IEEE] ODICON-2022; DOI: 10.1109/ODICON54453.2022.10010242, Electronic ISBN: 978-1-6654-7839-7.

[C4] Vaibhav Sinha, Siladitya Dash, Nazma Naskar, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain: “A Study of Feature Selection and Extraction Algorithms for Cancer Subtype Prediction”, [IEEE] International Conference for Advancement in Technology, (ICONAT), 2022; DOI: 10.1109/ICONAT53423.2022.9726007, Electronic ISBN: 978-1-6654-2577-3.

[C3] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Sumanta Ray, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Detecting overlapping gene communities during stomach adenocarcinoma: A discrete NMF-based integrative approach”, [IEEE], International Conference on Advent Trends in Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation (ICATMRI-2020), 2020; DOI: 10.1109/ICATMRI51801.2020.9398458, ISBN: 978-1-7281-9303-8.

[C2] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Sumanta Ray, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Identification of Hub Genes and Key Modules in Stomach Adenocarcinoma Using nsNMF-Based Data Integration Technique”, [IEEE], International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT - 2019), IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2019; DOI: 10.1109/ICIT48102.2019.00065, ISBN: 978-1-7281-6052-8.

[C1] Sumanta Ray, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Lutfunnesa Khatun: “Discovering Preservation Pattern From Co-Expression Modules in Progression of HIV-1 Disease: An Eigengene Based Approach”, [IEEE], 5th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) 2016, Jaipur, India; DOI: 10.1109/ICACCI.2016.7732146, Electronic ISBN:978-1-5090-2029-4.

Journal Papers Published

International Peer-Reviewed Journals:

[J10] Piu Upadhyay, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain, Sumanta Ray: “A Self-Supervised Generative Framework for Cell Type Discovery in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data using LSH-GAN”, Under Review [Preprint].

[J9] Ritwik Ganguly, Sana Aafrine, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain, Sumanta Ray: “A Graph-Attentive GAN for Rare-Cell-Aware Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Generation”, Under Review [Preprint].

[J8] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Lutfunnesa Khatun, Sumanta Ray, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Pan-cancer classification by regularized multi-task learning”, Nature Scientific Reports, Vol 11 (24252), December, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03554-8. ISSN: 2045-2322 (indexed in SCI/SCIE) Impact Factor: 4.996.

[J7] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Lutfunnesa Khatun, Sumanta Ray, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Identification of key immune regulatory genes in HIV–1 progression”, Gene (Elsevier), Vol. 792, May, 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2021.145735. ISSN: 0378-1119 (indexed in SCI/SCIE) Impact Factor: 3.913.

[J6] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Aanzil Akram Halsana, Lutfunnesa Khatun, Sumanta Ray, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Discovering key transcriptomic regulators in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma using Dirichlet process Gaussian mixture model”, Nature Scientific Reports, Vol 11 (7853), April, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87234-7. ISSN: 2045-2322 (indexed in SCI/SCIE) Impact Factor: 4.996.

[J5] Sk Mazharul Islam, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Sumanta Ray: “DTI-SNNFRA: Drug-target interaction prediction by shared nearest neighbors and fuzzy-rough approximation”, PLOS ONE, Vol. – 16 (2), 19 Feb., 2021; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246920. ISSN: 1932-6203 (indexed in SCI/SCIE) Impact Factor: 3.752.

[J4]  Sumanta Ray +, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain* +, Lutfunnesa Khatun, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “A comprehensive analysis on preservation patterns of gene co-expression networks during Alzheimer’s disease progression”, BMC Bioinformatics. 2017; DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1946-8. ISSN: 1471-2105 (indexed in SCI/SCIE) Impact Factor: 3.328.

[J3] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain, Sumanta Ray*, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Preservation affinity in consensus modules among stages of HIV-1 progression”, BMC Bioinformatics. 2017; DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1590-3. ISSN: 1471-2105 (indexed in SCI/SCIE) Impact Factor: 3.328.

[J2] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Sumanta Ray, Tabassum Sultana Tannee, Anirban Mukhopadhyay: “Analyzing Prognosis Characteristics of Hepatitis C using a Biclustering Based Approach”, Elsevier: Procedia Computer Science, 2017; volume = "115", pages = "282 - 289", DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2017.09.136. ISSN: 1877-0509 (indexed in SCOPUS).

[J1] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Zeba Mahboob, Rejaul Chowdhury, Arif Sohel, Sumanta Ray*: “Protein complex detection in PPI network by identifying mutually exclusive protein-protein interactions”, Elsevier: Procedia Computer Science, 2016; volume = "93", pages = "1054 - 1060", DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2016.07.309. ISSN: 1877-0509 (indexed in SCOPUS).

Books Published

Book Chapters (International):

[BC3] Swarnendu Chakrabarti, Subrata Datta, Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain: “Periodic Correlated Frequent Pattern Mining with Dissociative Pruning”, International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCCT 2025), [Springer, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS)], 2025; [In press].

[BC2] Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain*, Aanzil Akram Halsana: “Identification of gene communities in liver hepatocellular carcinoma: An offsetNMF-based integrative technique”, 5th International Conference on Intelligent Data Communication Technologies and Internet of Things (ICICI 2021), [Springer, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies], 2021; DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7610-9_30, ISBN: 978-981-16-7610-9.

[BC1] Debjani Bhattacharjee , Sk Md Mosaddek Hossain* , Raziya Sultana , and Sumanta Ray*: “Topological Inquisition into the PPI Networks Associated with Human Diseases Through Graphlet Frequency Distribution”, 7th International Conference, PReMI 2017 Kolkata, India, December 5–8, 2017, [Springer LNCS]: 10597, pp. 431–437, 2017, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69900-4_55, eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69900-4.

Awards

• Received Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology (DST-SERB), Govt. of India 
• Qualified in the UGC-NET (National Eligibility Test)  in Computer Science and Applications.
• Received MHRD-GATE Scholarship during Master of Technology.
• Qualified in the National Merit Scholarships examination during schooling (IX-XII).

Ph.D. Thesis Guidance

Ongoing:

1. SK MAZHARUL ISLAM [CSE231604]

2. MONAZZA FIRDAUS [CSE231608]

Project Works

Research and Development (R&D) Projects:
Ongoing:

Project Title:  "Advanced Machine Learning Techniques to Demystify and Characterize Interaction Dynamics of Complex Biological Systems for Uncovering Disease Pathogenesis".

Role: Principal Investigator
Research Grant: 18.3 lakh
Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology (DST-SERB), Govt. of India.

Professional Society Activity

Reviewer for the journals (selected SCI/SCIE indexed):

• DNA and Cell Biology
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
• Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio)
• BMC Bioinformatics
• BMC Cancer
• IEEE Access
• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
• INAE Letters (Editorial Team Member).

Reviewer for the conferences (selected):

• ICDSA - 2022
• IEEE INDICON - 2021
• IEEE TENSYMP - 2019
• IEEE ICACCI - 2017
• IEEE ICACCI - 2016

Member of Technical Program Committee (selected):

• IEEE TENSYMP - 2019.
• ICACA-2018, Uttarakhand, India.
• ICNGCIS - 2017, J&K, India.
• IEEE ICACCI - 2017, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
• IEEE ICACCI - 2016, Jaipur, India.