About
Dr. Zakir Hussain is working as an Assistant Professor (Contractual) in the Department of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, National Forensic Sciences University (An Institute of National Importance under the Ministry of Home Affairs), Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. Before this, he worked as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Computer Application, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Tura Campus, Meghalaya, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2024. He obtained his M.Tech. in Information Technology from Gauhati University in 2015. He completed his B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Gauhati University in 2012 with Honours and bagged 4th position in the university. Besides these academic degrees, he qualified for eligibility for Assistant Professor in UGC-NET 2024 and had a valid GATE score of 2013. He was the state topper in the subject of General Science in the board examination conducted by the Assam State Board in the year 2005. He was a Guest/Part-time faculty in the level of Assistant Professor at Barak Valley Engineering College; a government institution of Assam in the district of Karimganj. His research interests are in the fields of Machine Learning for Healthcare, Mathematical Biology, Soft Computing, and Natural Language Processing. He holds 2 (two) Patents- one Indian and one German. He has his credit for 20+ articles in Journals, Conferences, and Edited books. He has created a Dataset that is available in IEEE Dataport. He got opportunities to review 70+ articles from 25+ SCI/Scopus-indexed journals; some articles from international conferences, and some chapters from edited books. He had the privilege to serve as a TPC and PC member of some conferences.
No. of Publications
Research Paper
15
Book
0
Book Chapter
7
Academic Identity
Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer
North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus
Oct 2023 to Jun 2025
Guest/Part-time Faculty
Barak Valley Engineering College
Aug 2018 to Feb 2019
Computer Teacher
Adarsha Vidyalaya, Mandia
Jan 2015 to Jul 2018