Department of Software Engineering
Dr. Md. Kamrul Hossain  Associate Professor
Name :
Dr. Md. Kamrul Hossain
Designation
Associate Professor  
Department
Department of Software Engineering
Faculty
Faculty of Science and Information Technology
Personal Webpage
https://faculty.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/profile/swe/kamrul.html
E-mail
kamrul.ged@diu.edu.bd
Phone
+8809617901233, Ext-53100
Cell-Phone
+88 01915641745

Ph.D. in Operations Research (USM, Malaysia), M.S. & B. Sc in Statistics (SUST, Bangladesh)

  1. Facilitator in "Training on SPSS and Writing Articles for Journal" held on every semester in Daffodil International University.
  2. Facilitator in “Training of Trainers on Pedagogy, Bloom’s Taxonomy, ILO and Lesson plan and Student Centric Education, Investigative Study both Qualitative and Quantitative” held on 29 & 31 December, 2016 at Daffodil International University.
  3. Participant in "Imparting Faculty Training for Quality Enhancement of Teaching and Research in Higher Education" held on 25 to 29 October, 2015 at Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
  4. Participant in "Short Course on Heat Transfer using MAPLE Software" for the basic knowledge on programming software MAPLE held on 27 to 29 June, 20l2 at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, MALAYSIA.
  5. Participant in "Writing Boot Camp 2011 for sharing knowledge on writing and publishing scientific articles in journals". Held on 29 July 2011 at INFORMM, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, MALAYSIA and 30 September to 2 October 2011at Swiss Inn, Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaysia.
  1. Basic Statistics
  2. Statistics and probability
  3. Environmental Statistics
  4. Biostatistics
  5. Advance Biostatistics
  6. Research Methodology
  7. Production and Operations Management
  8. Operations Research
  1. Felix, E., Hossain, M.K. Hypertension prevalence and regional disparities in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a systematic review and meta-analysis. Discov Public Health 23, 1469 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-026-02966-z
  2. Akther, S., Pingky, J. S., Dhar, A. K., Shahed, M. H., Hossain, M. K. (2026). Hybrid Machine Learning Forecasting of Monkeypox Transmission in North America: A Data-Driven Early Warning Framework, Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2718990. https://doi.org/10.1155/acis/2718990
  3. Akther, S., Al-Mamun, M., & Hossain, M. K. (2026). Bridging ensemble model and public health practice: an approach for refining understanding of seasonal dengue transmission patterns in Bangladesh. BMC Infectious Diseases, 26.
  4. Chowdhury, M. M. H., Khandker, S., Chowdhury, M. A. H., Hossain, M. K., & Rahman, S. M. (2026). Factors Affecting the Incidence of Diarrhoeal Disease Among Children Under 2 Years in Remote Village Area of Bangladesh. Child: Care, Health and Development, 52(1), e70228.
  5. Islam, Y. M., Sutradhar, S. R., Hossain, M. K., & Kamil, A. A. (2025). Exploring Existing Knowledge using Query Type of Questions to Launch and Sequentially Conduct a Math Lesson. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 1423-1433.
  6. Bhattacharjee, S., Hossain, M. F., Akhy, S. A., Shimul M. M. H., and Hossain, M. K. (2025). Predicting depression among public university students in Bangladesh using machine learning models. Discover Mental Health 5(1)
  7. Shimul, M. M. H., Dowel, I. J., Roy, P., Sufian, A., Ahmed, T. R., Majumder, D.,Hossain, M. K., Khandker, S., Khan, S. & Khan, H. T. (2025). Choices and challenges in end-of-life care and decision-making: a nationwide cross-sectional study in Bangladesh. BMC Palliative Care, 24(1), 283.
  8. Hossain MK, Ashraf A, Islam MM, Sourav SH, Shimul MMH. Optimizing Alzheimer's disease prediction through ensemble learning and feature interpretability with SHAP-based feature analysis. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2025 Aug 8;17(3):e70162. doi: 10.1002/dad2.70162. PMID: 40787633; PMCID: PMC12333869.
  9. Sarker, R. K. R., Hafij, S., Yasir, M. A., Assaduzzaman, M., Shimul, M. M. H., & Hossain, M. K. (2025). Predicting Maternal Health Risk Using PCA-Enhanced XGBoost and SMOTE-ENN for Improved Healthcare Outcomes. Intelligence-Based Medicine, 100300.
  10. Hossain, M. K., Shimul, M. M. H., Talukder, M. A. S., & Islam, M. M. (2025). Impact of math anxiety and general anxiety on academic performance among undergraduates in Bangladesh. Acta Psychologica, 260, 105620.
  11. Akter, Z., Shimul, M.M.H., Hossain, M.K. et al. Nutritional vulnerabilities among Rohingya refugee children in Cox’s Bazar: a cross-sectional analysis. Discov Soc Sci Health 5, 125 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44155-025-00280-8
  12. Hadi HM, Shimul MMH, Hossain MS, Sultana A, Hossain MK, Khandker S, Khan S. Effect of Physical Activity and Dietary Changes on Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Case-Control Study in Bangladesh. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab. 2025 May;8(3):e70051. doi: 10.1002/edm2.70051. PMID: 40372910; PMCID: PMC12080536.
  13. Shimul MMH, Hossain MK, Khandker S. Workforce and Health Care Services for Young Children in Bangladesh. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(6):e2513807. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.13807
  14. Mohammad Shamsul Ahsan, Leuza Mubassara, A K M Anwarul Islam, Md Mahbubul Hasan, Shahjada Selim, Rubaiya Ali, Mohtasham Hasan, Md Kamrul Hossain, South Asian Society for Sexual Medicine School, Bangladesh: a multidisciplinary training initiative in an under-resourced country, Sexual Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2025, qfaf028, https://doi.org/10.1093/sexmed/qfaf028
  15. Sultana S, Muhammad F, Chowdhury AA, Tasnim T, Haque MI, Hasan BakiBillah A, Hossain MK, Zaman S, Delwer Hossain Hawlader M, Chowdhury M. Association between depressive symptoms of mothers and eating behaviors of school-going children in Urban Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. BMC Womens Health. 2023 Aug 18;23(1):437. doi: 10.1186/s12905-023-02584-w. PMID: 37596580; PMCID: PMC10439587.
  16. Shahjahan, M., Islam, M. M., Hossain, M. K., Amin, M. R., Kamal, M., Islam, M. S., (2023). Knowledge and attitude towards COVID-19 among adult people in Bangladesh: evidence from an online survey, International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS), Vol. 12 (2), 475 – 485.
  17. Rahman, M. M., Shibly, M. H. I.,Chowdhury, T. A., Hossain, M. K., Hossain, A., (2023). "Changes of Dimensional Stabilities for Viscose, Polyester and Spandex Constituents: A Study on Knit Fabric Stage versus Garments Stage", Daffodil International University Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 18 (1), 9-18. (Link)
  18. Baten, M. A. , Hossaın, M. K. & Al - Zabır, A. (2022). Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Secondary Schools’ Efficiency in Barisal Division of Bangladesh: Teachers’ Preference and Perceptions . The Eurasia Proceedings of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics , 19 , 108-119 . DOI: 10.55549/epstem.1219182
  19. Hossain, M. K., Hossain, M. F., Hossain, M. E., Hoque, A. F., Khan, N. M., & Kamil, A. A. (2022). Skill Development of Undergraduate Students through International Exchange Program. Journal of Educational and Social Research, 12(2), 40-48.
  20. Hossain, M.K., Mahfuz, T., Latif, S. and Hossain, M.E. (2023), Determinants of financial stress among university students and its impact on their performance", Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 226-237. https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-02-2021-0082
  21. Sultana, S., Zaman, S., Chowdhury, A. A., Hasan, I., Haque, M. I., Hossain, M. K., Ahmed, K.R., Chakraborty, P.A. & Hawlader, M. D. H. (2021). Prevalence and factors associated with depression among the mothers of school-going children in Dhaka city, Bangladesh: A multi stage sampling-based study. Heliyon, e07493.
  22. Ahsan, M. S., Ahmed, S., Khan, R., Hasan, M. M., Kar, A., Shahjahan, H., Ferdous, F., Hossain, M., & Hossain, M. K. (2021). Psychological impact of COVID -19 pandemic on frontline health care workers in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 14(3), 22–29.
  23. Haque, M. I., Ullah, A. N. Z., Akter, T., Chowdhury, A. B. M., Mamun, A. A., Tamanna, T., Hossain, M. K., Khan, H. T. A., & Harun, M. G. D. (2020). Familial and socio-cultural barriers in maintaining Tobacco Free Homes in Bangladesh: a comparative cross-sectional study. BMJ Open."
  24. Ferdushi, K. F., Hossain, M. K., & Kamil, A. A. (2020, November). Production Risk with Feasible Generalized Least Square. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1641, No. 1, p. 012109). IOP Publishing.
  25. Abid, D. M. H., Haque, A., & Hossain, M. K. (2020, February). Factors Causing Stunting Among Under-Five Children in Bangladesh. In International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (pp. 45-53). Springer, Singapore.
  26. Hossain M.K. (2020). Prediction Model for Self-assessed Health Status in Flood-Prone Area of Bangladesh. In: Bhuiyan T., Rahman M., Ali M. (eds) Cyber Security and Computer Science. ICONCS 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 325. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52856-0_25
  27. Nishat, N., Islam, Y. M., Biplob, K.B.M.B., Mustain, U and Hossain, M. K. (2020). Empowering tertiary level students to solve their own study related problems to improve study performance. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
  28. Hossain, M. K., Ferdushi, K. F., & Khan, H. T. (2019). Self-assessed health status among ethnic elderly of tea garden workers in Bangladesh. Ageing International, 44(4), 385-398.
  29. Rubi, M. A., & Hossain, M. K. (2019). Forecasting DSE Broad Index: An Application of Multi-layer Feed Forward Neural Network. Daffodil international university journal of science and technology, volume 14 (1), 62 - 68
  30. Farah, S. M., Chowdhury, A. A., Hossain, M. K., Mohammadnezhad, M., & Kabir, R (2018). Exploring the Knowledge, Attitude and Practices towards Use of Unprescribed Drugs among Adults of a Selected City of Somaliland. Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 19(1)
  31. Hassan, M. S., Hossain, M. K., & Khan, H. T. (2018). Prevalence and predictors of tobacco smoking among university students in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. International health.
  32. Ahmmed, K., Baten, M. A., Hossain, M. K. & Mohd Noor, N. A. (2018). Supplier capacity and key account management performance: A stochastic frontier analysis. Cuadernos de Gestión, 18(1), 125-148
  33. Ali, M. M., Hossain, M. K., Chowdhury, A. A., & Nedelea, A. M. (2017). Sustainable development Goals (SDGs): 1 and 5–complementary towards fulfillment of Goals through BNF grant: an analysis among the Beneficiaries. Ecoforum Journal, 6(3).
  34. Masum, K. M., Mansor, A., Sah, S. A. M., San Lim, H., & Hossain, M. K. (2017). Effect of differential forest management on biodiversity in a tropical hill forest of Malaysia and implications for conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 26(7), 1569-1586.
  35. Hossain, M. K. & Hossain, M. F. (2016). Questions Analysis with Bloom's Taxonomy: A Study on the Department of Business Adminstration. Daffodil International University Journal of Business and Economics, 10(1): 152-159.
  36. Hossain, M. K., Hossain, M. A., Baten, M. A. (2016). Performance Evaluation of SME Banking in Bangladesh using Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business, 7(1), 31 – 41.
  37. Hossain, M. K., Hossain, M. F., & Islam, Y. M. (2015). Perception of the qualities of a Model Teacher in the Minds of Newly Recruited Teacher at a Private University. Daffodil International University Journal of Business and Economics, 9(1): 43-52.
  38. Tay, L. T., Alkhasawneh, M. S., Lateh, H., Hossain, M. K., Kamil, A. A. (2014). Landslide Hazard Mapping of Penang Island Using Poisson Distribution with Dominant Factors. Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 4(3A): 72-77.
  39. Hossain, M. K., Kamil, A. A., Baten, M. A., & Mustafa, A. (2014). Estimating DEA Efficiency Using Uniform Distribution. Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 37(4), 1075–1083.
  40. Tamat, A., Pawanchik, S., Kamil, A. A., Hilmi, M. F., Lateh, H., Hasan, M. Z., Ferdushi, K. F. & Hossain, M. K., (2014). An Analysis of Variation of Turnout Time and Response Time in Penang State Fire and Rescue Department. Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 7(4), 200-208.
  41. Hossain, M. K., Kamil, A. A., Masron, T. A., & Baten, M. A. (2013). Impact of Environmental Factors on Efficiency of Rice Production in Bangladesh. Journal of Applied Sciences, 13(4), 564 -571.
  42. Hossain, M. K., Kamil, A. A., Mustafa, & A. Baten, M. A., (2013). Efficiency in the Worst Production Situation Using Data Envelopment Analysis. Advances in Decision Sciences, 2013.
  43. Hossain, M. K., Kamil, A. A., Baten, M. A., & Mustafa, A. (2012). Stochastic Frontier Approach and Data Envelopment Analysis to Total Factor Productivity and Efficiency Measurement of Bangladeshi Rice. PLoS ONE, 7(10), e46081.
  1. Data Science
  2. Social Behavior
  3. Efficiency Measurement: DEA and SFA
  4. Impact of Climate change
  5. Application of Statistical Distributions

Sanggar Sanjung Award for excellent Achievement in category of Journal Publication for the year 2012

  • Life Member, Bangladesh Statistical Association (BSA)
  • Life Member, Bangladesh Mathematical Society (আ 1569)
  1. Lecturer at Leading University, Sylhet from April 2014 to September 2014
  2. Senior Lecturer at DIU from September 2014 to December 2014
  3. Assistant Professor at DIU from January 2015 to December 2021
  4. Associate Professor at DIU from January 2022 to till date