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 advisement 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.
Collaborative Research Engagements
Collaborative Research Engagements
Dr J Lee, and Dr R. Nishikawa, M. Zuley, MD, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC, Radiology, Pittsburgh, PA, (2020~)
Dr Md Golam Kibria, Morehead State University, Assistant Professor, Engineering Science (Geology), Morehead, KY (2024- )
Dr F Chowdhury, Professor and Associate dean, MechanoGenomics Lab, ECTM, SIUC (2024~)
Dr S Ehsan, Assoc. professor, Duke University, Radiology, NC (2024~)
Dr B. Bruno, and Dr M Andrew, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Radiology, Philadelphia, PA- AAPM grant (2021~)
Dr P Adam, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, w/ Postdoc mentor, 2021-2023
Dr. MEH Chowdhury, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar, NPRP12s grant project, 10/2019 ~ 10/2020
T. Hiranaka, MD, Dept. of Orthopaedic surgery, Takatsuki General Hospital, Osaka, Japan- JSPS grant, 11/2018~10/2020
S. Yoshiya, MD, Dept. of Orthopaedic surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan – PhD study, 11/2015~9/2018
Students
Students
Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student of Computer Science
School of Computing, SIUC, Spring 2025 - Current
He received BS (2023) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Shahjalal University of Science and Engineering (SUST), Bangladesh. His research interest includes Generative AI, Deep Learning, LLMs and Medical Image Processing.
Tahmid A.B. Haroon
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant and PhD Student of Computer Science
School of Computing, SIUC, Spring 2025 - Current
He received BS (2022) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Science and Engineering (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interest includes Generative AI, LLMs, VLMs and Deep Learning.
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.
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.
Raymond J Thomas
Summer Research Intern (Jun 2024 - Jan 2025), 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 2024 - Jul 2024), 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.
Shadman Sakib
Visiting UG students (Apr 2019 - Oct 2020) in Kobashi Lab at the University of Hyogo, Japan. I co-advised him with Dr Kobashi. He worked on the AI-deep learning model development in Knee Surgery. Now he is PhD student at U of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA.
Shoichi Nishio
MS students (Apr 2019 - Oct 2020) in Kobashi Lab at the University of Hyogo, Japan. I co-advised him with Dr Kobashi. He worked on the AI-deep learning model development in Knee Surgery.
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