Lab Director
Lab Director
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Principal Investigator and Director of VITAL Lab
Dept. of Computer Science at School of Computing
Email: belayat@cs.siu.edu, Office: EGRA 405
Dr. Hossain is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing at Southern Illinois University since Aug. 2024. Prior to this role, he served as an Adjunct Faculty of Computer and Information System at the Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA from 2023 - 2024. During 2020-2024, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, PA under the mentorship of Drs. Juhun Lee, and Robert Nishikawa. Previously, he was a JSPS Fellow and visiting researcher at the University of Hyogo, Japan from 2018-2020. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Computer Science in 2018 from the University of Hyogo, where he was advised by Dr Syoji Kobashi. He was a recipient of multiple awards including AAPM research grant award for 2022-2023, JSPS grant-in-aid for 2018-2020. His research interests include Deep Learning, Generative AI, Multi-modal AI, Large Language Model (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Computer Vision. AI in Medicine, and Medical Image Processing. He is a Member of IEEE, SPIE, ACS and served as an Associate Editor for IEEE SMC conference series.
Staffs and Students
Staffs and Students
Bidhan Giri
PhD Student of Computer Science, SoC, Started Fa' 2026
Education: MS in Computer Science SIUE, 2025
Research Interest: Deep Learning, Computer Vision and VLMs
Golam Jilani
PhD Student of Computer Science, SoC, Started Sp' 2025
Education: BS in Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, 2023
Experience: Research Assistant, SUST Research Lab, 2023 -2024
Research Interest: Generative AI, Deep Learning, LLMs, Computer Vision and Medical Image Processing
Tahmid A.B. Haroon
PhD Student of Computer Science, SoC, Started Sp' 2025
Education: BS in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Science and Technology, 2022
Experience: Software Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute, 2022 -2023
Research Interest: Generative AI, Deep Learning, and LLMs
Incoming
GRA/GTA and PhD Student of Computer Science
School of Computing
Incoming
Harika Reddy Ghanta
MS Student of Computer Science, SoC, Summer 2026
Education: BS in Computer Science, University of Central Missouri, MO, 2023
Experience: Full Stack Developer, New Jersey
Research Interest: Deep Learning, and Computer Vision
Ranadheer Marla
MS Student of Computer Science
School of Computing, Summer 2026
He received BS (2023) in Computer Science from the Park University, MO, USA. Before joining SIUC, he was a Full Stack Developer in TX, USA.
Yuxuan Wang
Graduated with MS in Computer Science, SIUC (Summer, 2025).
I was his MS project committee member. His conducted thesis on Physics-Informed Neural Network optimization for modelling ground water flow under advisement of Dr X. Huang, CS, SIUC.
Mohammad Sakib, PhD
Graduated with PhD (Summer, 2025), Electrical and Computer Engineering, SIUC
I was his PhD dissertation committee member. He developed AI/deep learning models in biomedical microscope imaging under advisement of Dr F. Chowdhury, ME and ECE , SIUC.
Raymond J Thomas
Summer Research Intern (Jun'24 - Jan'25), Imaging Research Lab, University of Pittsburgh, PA. I co-advised him with Dr Juhun. He worked on the deep learning model development in breast cancer risk assessment project under NIH fund.
John Peterson
Summer Research Intern (Jun'24 - Jul'24), Imaging Research Lab, University of Pittsburgh, PA. I co-advised him with Dr Juhun. He worked on the dataset curation for AI model development in breast cancer risk assessment project
Shadman Sakib
Visiting UG students (Apr 2019 - Oct 2020) in Kobashi Lab at the University of Hyogo. I co-advised him with Dr Kobashi. He worked on the AI-deep learning model development in Knee Surgery. Currently he is a PhD student at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA.
Shoichi Nishio
MS students (Apr'19 - Oct'20) in Kobashi Lab at the University of Hyogo. I co-advised him w/ Dr Kobashi. His research interest included deep learning model development in Knee Surgery. After graduation he work for Kawasaki Corp.
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