Curriculum Vitae

Md. Akhtar Hossain

Personal Information
Contact Address Room # 430, Department of Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka - 1000, Bangladesh Telephone Mobile E-mail Web Date of Birth Citizenship +88 - 02 - 9661234 - 72 Ext. 7200 +88 - 01717 - 812444 akhtar_sbi@du.ac.bd http://www.du.ac.bd/department/common/facultymember.php?bodyid=STA July 11, 1985 Bangladeshi by birth.

Employment
September, 2010 - Lecturer at Department of Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics, University of Present Dhaka, Bangladesh. June, 2010 - Statistical Consultant at Public Health Sciences Division, International Center December, 2011 for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). June, 2010 - Lecturer at Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Eastern University, September, 2010 Bangladesh. May, 2010 - June, Senior Research Assistant at Public Health Sciences Division, International 2010 Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).

Education
2007 B.sc. (Honors) in Statistics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
First class second position with 74.25% marks.

2006 M.S. in Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

First class rst position with 84.0% marks.

Research Interest
Survival analysis, Longitudinal data analysis, Public health, Data mining, Bioinformatics.

Master Thesis
Title A Proposed Covariate Dependent Mixture Transition Distribution (CDMTD) Model for Higher Order Markov Chains with Application Supervisor Professor M. Ataharul Isalm, Ph.D.
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Description This research work introduces a covariate dependent mixture transition distribution model (CDMTD) for analyzing repeated measures data based on higher order Markov chains with two or more outcomes. The estimation procedure for the proposed model and the test for signicance of the estimated parameters are discussed. An application of the proposed model on the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) data is presented.

Publications
2012 Akhtar Hossain, M. Ataharul Islam (2012). Covariate Dependent Mixture Transition Distribution (CDMTD) Model for Analysis of Repeated Measures Data. Submitted to the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 2012 Nahid Sultana Sumi, M. Ataharul Islam, Akhtar Hossain (2012). Evaluation and computation of diagnostic tests: a simple alternative. Submitted to the Journal of Statistical Computations and Simulations.

Conference Papers
2012 Abdur Razzaque, Akhtar Hossain (2012). Eect of maternal mortality on under-ve survival: Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh, Accepted for Population Association of America 2012 Annual Meeting Program, 3-5 May, San Francisvo, CA. 2011 Abdur Razzaque, Akhtar Hossain et al. (2011). Consequences of maternal mortality on infant survival: Evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh, INDEPTH Scientic Conference Programme, 24-27 October, Maputo, Mozambique. 2010 Akhtar Hossain and M. Ataharul Islam (2010). A proposed covariate dependent mixture transition distribution model for higher order Markov chains, The First International Conference on Theory and Applications of Statistics, 26-28 December, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Courses Taught
Graduate Courses Advanced Statistical Inference. Undergraduate Introduction to Statistics and Probability, Data Analysis with FORTRAN & Courses EXCEL, Demography, Research Methodologies.

Computer Skills
Languages & FORTRAN, S-PLUS, R, SPSS, MINITAB SAS, STATA. Packages Operating System Linux and Windows.

Membership
Member, Dhaka University Statistics Department Alumni Association (DUSDAA).

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Scholarships and Awards

2011 Book Prize 2011 from Qazi Motahar Hussain Foundation for outstanding academic result in M.S. in Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics. 2010 Award and Gold Medal from Qazi Motahar Hussain Foundation for outstanding academic result in M.S. in Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics. 2010 Shahidara Saleh Award and Prize for superior performance in statistics and computation, Carleton University, Canada. 2010 UGC Merit Scholarship 2007, University Grant Commission, Bangladesh. 2009 Book Prize 2009 from Qazi Motahar Hussain Foundation for outstanding academic result in B.Sc. (Honors) in Statistics. 2004 - 2007 Merit Scholarship from Secodary and Higher Secondary Education Board, Jessore, Bangladesh.

References
1 M. Ataharul Islam, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Statistics and OR, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. Cell: + 966 - 597779806. Email: mataharul@yahoo.com 2 Nitai Chakraborty, Professor & Chairman, Department of Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. Cell: +88 01711 - 287308. Email: chakraborty_nitai@yahoo.com

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