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May 03, 2017

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HOSSAIN MD AMIR Ph D

Citizenship: Bangladeshi.

Status in the USA: US green card holder

Address in USA:

MD AMIR HOSSAIN

** **, ***** ******, *********, NY, 11427

Email : acz4bz@r.postjobfree.com

Address in Bangladesh:

Professor

Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT) University of Dhaka, Dhaka–1000, Bangladesh

Flat No. 30/F, Isha Khan Road Residential Area

University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.

Email : acz4bz@r.postjobfree.com

Fax : 88-02-861-****

Phone: 88-02-966-**** Mobile : 88-017********

Summary of Expertise

Have about twenty four years of experience in teaching statistics and elementary mathematics at undergraduate and graduate levels. During this period I have taught different courses like: Introduction to Statistics, Probability and probability distributions, Research methodology, Mathematical methods, Linear programming problem, Operations research, Industrial Statistics, Linear Algebra, Differential and integral calculus, Stochastic Process etc. in undergraduate and graduate level. Apart from my regular teaching activities in the University of Dhaka, I have been involved in different private and public Universities of Bangladesh as adjunct faculty and teach courses like, Business Statistics, Quantitative techniques, Research methodology etc.

Besides having a vast teaching experience at the university level by being a regular faculty of the University of Dhaka, I had been involved in different administrative positions like director of the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT) and provost of a hall

(student dormitory). As the director of the institute for three years I was the administrative chief of the institute having more than 300 students at under graduate and graduate levels, around 30 faculty members, and 20 support staffs.

I was involved in hall administration for more than ten years and during my tenure I served as the acting provost at the absence of the regular provost. Hall is main administrative unit of the university. More than 5000 students are attached in a hall and about 2000 students reside in the hall. Our responsibilities were to guide and supervise all academic and co-curricular activities of the students attached with and residing in the hall. I am also involved in part time teaching in other universities with a very high level of reputation. I have been working as an adjunct faculty of the East West University, BRAC University, and DCLE (Study centre of London School of Economics in Bangladesh). I was also involved in part-time teaching in Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Department of Political Science, University of Dhaka. Research Interests

Environmental statistics in general and Ground water arsenic contamination problem in Bengal delta (Bangladesh and India) in particular. Application of statistical tools to measure and compare environmental situations in different locations. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) etc,

Education:

2008: Ph.D. in Environmental Statistics

School of Environmental Statistics (SOES)

Jadavpur University, India (My enrollment was in Jadavpur University. But work with my co-supervisor at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata)

1987: Master of Science in Statistics

Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh Result: First class

1986: Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Statistics

Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh Result: First class

1983: H. S. C.

Government Titumir College, Dhaka Board, Bangladesh Result: First Division

1981: S. S. C.

Dalal Bazar NK High School, Comilla Board, Bangladesh Result: First Division

Professional Membership and Involvement:

(i) Life member, Bangladesh Statistical Association. (Member, National Organizing committee)

(ii) Life member, Dhaka University Statistics Department Alumni Association.

(Member, Executive committee)

(iii) Member, National Statistical Council, Government of Bangladesh.

(iv) Member, Standing Technical Committee, Census and housing count 2011, Bangladesh

(v) Member, Steering Committee, Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2009- 2012, Bangladesh.

(vi) Member, National Advisory Committee, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey

(MICS) 2010, Bangladesh.

(vii) Member, National Advisory Committee, Sample Vital Registration System Project (SVRS), Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh. Working Experience (Administrative)

2009 – 2012: Director of the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. It is an administrative post for three years on the basis of seniority among the faculty members of the institute.

1993 – 2004: House Tutor of Hazi Md. Mohsin Hall, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. It is an administrative post for ten years among the faculty members of the University of Dhaka.

Working Experience (Academic)

2008 – till date: Professor at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

2013: Visiting Research fellow at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India for one month.

2003 – 2008: Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

2003–2007: Research Scholar at School of Environmental Statistics (SOES), Jadavpur University, India

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dipankar Chakraborti, SOES, JU. Prof. Bimal K. Roy, Indian Statitical Institute, India 1996–2003: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

1991–1996: Lecturer at the Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

Working Experience as adjunct faculty /Part time faculty/ Guest teacher in addition to my normal duties in University of Dhaka

2007 – till date: Adjunct faculty, East West University (One of the private Universities in Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2014 - till date : Adjunct faculty, Bangladesh Textile University Dhaka, Bangladesh. 1995 – till date: Gust teacher, National Academy for Planning and Development

(NAPD), Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh. 2008 – 2010: Adjunct faculty, University of Information Technology and Sciences

(One of the private Universities in Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2007 – 2009: Adjunct faculty, Stamford University (One of the private Universities in Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2001 – 2003: Part time faculty, Department of Political Science, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

1995 – 1997: Part time faculty, Department of computer science, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh. Courses Taught:

Basic Statistics, Element of Statistics, Sampling distribution, Probability and probability distributions. Quantitative techniques, Statistics and decision making, Elementary mathematics, Linear Algebra, Differential and Integral Calculus, Numerical Mathematics, Stochastic Process and Stochastic modeling, Theory of Statistics, Theory of inference, Operations research, Stochastic process. Research methodology, Thesis Supervision: Supervise Undergraduate and Graduate level project work (at least 3 in each academic year) since 1996.

Also supervise Graduate level thesis in Applied Statistics every academic year (at least one) since 2008.

Publications:

A. Publication in Peer Reviewed Journals

1. Arsenicosis and stigmatisation. Rasel Kabir, Olav Titus Muurlink & M. Amir Hossain (2015):, Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1015435

2. Regression Analysis for Data Containing Outliers and High Leverage Points. Asim K, Dey, Md.Amir Hossain, and Kumer P. Das (2015): Alabama Journal of Mathematics, 39 (2015), ISSN 2373-0404

3. Water consumption patterns and factors contributing to water consumption in arsenic affected population of rural West Bengal, India. M. Amir Hossain, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Matthew Murrill, Bhaskar Das, Bimol Roy, Shankar Dey, Debasish Maity, and Dipankar Chakraborti., Sci Total Environ (2012), doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.057

4. Time series analysis model for particulate matter of air pollution data in dhaka city. Md. Arafat Rahman and M. Amir Hossain. Asian Journal of Water, Environment and pollution,. Vol. 9, No. 4 (2012), pp. 63-69.

5. Regional Variation of Social Development in Bangladesh. Md. Arafat Rahman and Md. Amir Hossain. International Journal of Social Science and Management

(IJSSM) : Volume: 02, Number: 06, October-2012. pp 56-64. 6. Indexing and Modling of Groundwater Arsenic data in Bangladesh: A Statistical Approach. M. Amir Hossain, Biml K. Roy, and Sharmodeep Bhattachariya, Physiol. Ecol. & Environ. Sci. 2(1 & 2): 31-49, 2011.

7. Status of groundwater arsenic contamination in the state of West Bengal, India: A 20- year study report. Dipankar Chakraborti, Bhaskar Das, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Bhajan Biswas, A. B. Goswami, Bishwajit Nayak, Arup Pal, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain, GoutamBasu, Tarit Roychowdhury and Dipankar Das. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 2009, 53, 542 – 551.

8. Groundwater arsenic contamination in Manipur, one of the seven North-Eastern Hill States of India: a future danger. Dipankar Chakraborti, E. Jayantakumar Singh, Bhaskar Das, Babar Ali Shah, M. Amir Hossain, Bishwajit Nayak, Sad Ahamed, N. Rajmuhon Singh. Environmental Geology. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s00254-007-1176-x, pp.

9. Million Dollar Arsenic Removal Plants in West Bengal, India: Useful Or Not? M. Amir Hossain, Amitava Mukharjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, and Dipankar Chakraborti. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 2006, 41 (2), pp. 216-225. 10. Ineffectiveness and Poor Reliability of Arsenic Removal Plants in West Bengal, India. M. Amir Hossain, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Debapriya Mondal, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, Bimal K. Roy, Amitava Mukherjee, and Dipankar Chakraborti. Environmental Science & Technology, 2005, 39, pp.4300-4306.

11. Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in Ganga-Meghna Brahmaputra (GMB) plain and its surroundings: a nineteen years study, S. Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain, A. Mukherjee, M. K. Sengupta, B Das, B. Nayak, A. Pal,, D Chakraborti, Chinese Journal of Endemiology, 2007, 26(1), pp. 43-47. 12. Arsenic Burden of Cooked Rice: Traditional and modern methods” Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, M. Amir Hossain, A. Mukherjee, S. Ahamed, B. Das, B. Nayak, A Pal, and D. Chakraborti. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2006, 44, pp 1823-1829. 13. Groundwater arsenic contamination in middle Ganga plain, Uttar Pradesh-India: A future Danger? S. Ahamed, M. K. Sengupta, A. Mukherjee, M. Amir Hossain, B. Das, B. Nayak, A. Pal, S. C. Mukherjee, S. Pati, R. N. Dutta, Adreesh Mukherjee, R Srivastava and D. Chakraborti, Science of the Total Environment, 2006, 370, pp 310

-322.

14. An eight-year study report on groundwater arsenic contamination and health effect in Eruani village, Bangladesh and an approach for its mitigation. S. Ahamed, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, S. C. Mukherjee, S. Pati, A. Mukherjee, M. Amir Hossain, B Das, B. Nayak, A. Zafar, S. Kabir, S. T. Islam, Q. Quamruzzaman, M. M. Rahman, and D. Chakraborti, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2006, 24 (2), pp.129- 141.

15. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination: a global perspective with special emphasis to Asian countries, A. Mukherjee, M. K. Sengupta, S. Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain, B. Das, B. Nayak, M. M. Rahman and D. Chakraborti, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2006, 24(2), pp. 142-163.

16. Adsorption studies with arsenic onto ferric oxide gel in reducing environment: effect of matrix and speciation, B. Nayak, M. Amir Hossain, M. K. Sengupta, S. Ahamed, B. Das, A Pal, and A. Mukherjee, Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 2006, 41(3), pp.333-340.

17. Comment on Limited temporal variability of arsenic concentrations in 20 wells monitored for 3 years in Araihazar, Bangladesh. Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amitava Mukherjee, Sad Ahamed, Md. Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, A. B. Goswami and Dipankar Chakraborti. Environmental Science & Technology, 2006, 40(5), pp. 1714-1715.

18. A detailed study of the arsenic contamination of groundwater and its impact on residents in Rajapur village of the Domkal block, district Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Bhaskar Das, M. Amir Hossain, Dilip Lodh, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shyamal Kanti Palit, Dipankar Chakraborti. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2005, 83(1), pp.49-57.

19. Are some animals more equal than others? Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, M. Amir Hossain, Sad Ahamed, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, Khitish Chandra Saha, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shymapada Pati, Rabindra Nath Dutta, Garga Chatterjee, Dipankar Chakraborti. Toxicology. 2005, 208(1), pp.165-169.

20. The magnitude of arsenic contamination in groundwater and its health effects to the inhabitants of the Jalangi one of the 85 arsenic affected blocks in West Bengal, India. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, M. Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Dilip Lodh, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shymapada Pati, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Quazi Quamruzzaman and Dipankar Chakraborti. Science of the Total Environment, 2005, 338 (3), pp. 189- 200.

21. Status of groundwater arsenic contamination and human suffering in a Gram Panchayet (cluster of villages) in Murshidabad, one of the nine arsenic affected districts in West Bengal-India: A semi-microlevel study. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Dilip Lodh, M. Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Quazi Quamruzzaman and Dipankar Chakraborti. Journal of Water and Health, 2005, 3 (3), pp.283-296.

22. Murshidabad - one of the nine groundwater arsenic affected districts of West Bengal, India. Part I: Magnitude of contamination and population at risk. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shymapada Pati, Sad Ahamed, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, M. Amir Hossain, Bishwajit Nayak, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shyamal Kanti Palit, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Khondaker Abdul Asad, Amitava Mukherjee and Dipankar Chakraborti, Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology, 2005, 43, pp.823-834. 23. Murshidabad - one of the nine groundwater arsenic affected districts of West Bengal, India. Part II: dermatological, neurological and obstetric findings. Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shymapada Pati, Rathindra Nath Dutta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, M. Amir Hossain, Bishwajit Nayak, Shyamal Kanti Palit, Imrul Kaies, Ajoy Kishore Barua, Khondaker Abdul Asad, Amitava Mukherjee and Dipankar Chakraborti Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology, 2005, 43, pp.835-848.

24. Comment on Reliability of a Commercial Kit to Test Groundwater for Arsenic in Bangladesh. Amitava Mukherjee, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Sad Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak, and Dipankar Chakraborti. Environmental Science & Technology, 2005, 39, 5501-5502.

25. Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain. Dipankar Chakraborti, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Sad Ahamed, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, M. Amir Hossain, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shyamapada Pati, Kshitish Chandra Saha, R.N. Dutta, Quazi Quamruzzaman. Journal of Environment Monitoring, 2004, 6, 75N-83N. 26. Expenditure pattern of the middle income group people in Dhaka city: A CPI perspective. Tasrif Jafar Siddique and M. Amir Hossain. Journal of Business Studies, 2004. Vol. XXV, No. 1. pp 181 – 196.

27. Class performance o the secondary school teachers in Bangladesh: An evaluation. Md. Abdul Maleque, Ms. Mariam Begum, and M. Amir Hossain. Teacher’s World, Journal of Education and Research, 2004, Vol.21-23, pp 17 - 36. 28. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Ganga–Padma–Meghna–Old Brahmaputra Plain. Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Amitava Mukherjee, M. Amir Hossain, Sad Ahamed, Mohammad M. Rahman, Dilip Lodh, Uttam K. Chowdhury, Bhajan K. Biswas, Biswajit Nayak, Bhaskar Das, Kshitish C. Saha, Dipankar Chakraborti, Subhash C. Mukherjee, Garga Chatterjee, Shyamapada Pati, Rabindra N. Dutta, Quazi Quamruzzaman. Archives of Environmental Health, 2003, 58 (11), pp.701- 702.

29. “Relationship between Class Characteristics of Parents and Participation Levels of Students: A Contemporary Phenomenon of Dhaka City”. A. Maleque, B. Nath and M. Amir Hossain. Teacher’s World, Journal of Education and Research. 2002, Vol.24-25, pp 199-210.

30. “Identification of Causes and Incidence of Low Attendance and Dropout from School: A Multivariate Analysis”. M. Amir Hossain and Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman. Teacher’s World, Journal of Education and Research, 2002, Vol.21-23, pp 23-30. 31. “Estimation of the Scale Matrix of the Class of Elliptical Distributions”. M. Amir Hossain and Anwarul H. Joarder. Dhaka University Journal of Science, 1999, Vol.47, No.2, pp.221-228.

32. “Estimation of the Eigen Values of the Scale Matrix of the Class of Elliptical Distributions”. Anwarul H. Joarder and M. Amir Hossain. Statistica, 1996, Bologna, Italy.

33. “Effect of Storage on the Physico-chemical Characteristics of Soybean Oil”. M. Amir Hossain. Bangladesh Journal of Biochemistry, 1996, Vol.2, No.2, pp 41-48. 34. “Estimation of the Trace of the Scale Matrix of the Scale Mixture of Multivatiate Normal Distributions”. Anwarul H. Joarder and M. Amir Hossain (1995): Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, 1995, Vol. No. 3, pp 565-572. 35. “Population and Poverty: Critical Policy Measures”. Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman and M. Amir Hossain. The Asian Economic Review, 1995, Vol. XXXVII, No.3, pp 507- 518.

36. “Comparative Ecology of the Jute in Relation to Environmental Factors, Growth of two Cultivers of Jute (D 154 and CVL 1) at Different Photoperiods”. M. Amir Hossain et.al. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Science. 1995, Vol.21, pp 223-230.

B. Chapter in Books

1. Arsenic contamination incidents round the world. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Dilip Lodh, Bhaskar Das, Sad Ahamed, Debapriya Mandal, Md. Amir Hossain, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Shymapada Pati, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Dipankar Chakraborti. Book: Managing Arsenic in the Environment: From Soil to Human Health, Editor : Prof Ravi Naidu, Euan Smith, Gary Owens, Prasun Bhattacharya, Peter Nadebaum, CSIRO publishing, Australia. 2006, pp 3-30.

2. Groundwater Arsenic Exposure in India, Dipankar Chakraborti, Mrinal Kumar Sengupta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Dilip Lodh, Sad Ahamed, M. Amir Hossain, Gautam Kumar Basu, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Book: Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects V, Edited by W.R.Chappell, C.O.Abernathy, R.L.Calderon, 2003; Publisher: Elsevier science, Amsterdam-Lausanne-New York-Oxford-Tokyo. Pp.3-24. C. Papers Presented In Scientific Conference

1. Md. Amir Hossain (2013): “An over view of arsenic contamination problem in Bangladesh”. International Conference on Official Statistical. Held in December 15-16, 2012. Bangladesh Statistical Association, ISRT, D.U. 2. Md. Amir Hossain (2012): “Efficiency of arsenic removal plants installed in arsenic affected areas of West Bengal, India”. One day conference under HEQEP-AIF-Project organized by Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. Held in November 18, 2011.

3. S.S. Hossain, Md. Amir Hossain and A. Khan (2002): “Non-Parametric Selected Rank Set Sampling in the Presence of Errors in Ranking”. International Conference on Resent Trend in Probability and Statistics. Held in December31, 2002 to January 2, 2003. Guwahati University, Guwahati, India.

4. M. Amir Hossain and Pk. Md. Motiur Rahman (1993): Availability of Energy (Caloie) and Requirements in Bangladesh, 1991-2000. Fourth National Statistical Conference. Heald in the 18-19th December, 1992. Bangladesh Statistical Association, ISRT, D.U. Statistical Consultancy Services:

1. Worked as an advisor of the project entitled “Job Preference among the youths of Bangladesh.” sponsored by JICA Bangladesh conducted jointly by Young Consultants Bangladesh and JICA research Institute Japan. during 2014. Involvement: Over all supervision of the project, liaison with JICA research institute research team including Planning, questionnaire preparation, training of field interviewers, data entry.

2. Worked as National Consultant for Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in Sample Vital Registration System project (SVRS 2011) sponsored by UNICEF Bangladesh for three months in 2013.

Involvement: SVRS data analysis and mainly report finalization in consultation with project officials.

3. Worked as a team member (Statistician) of the project entitled “Impact Evaluation of Solar Home Systems in Bangladesh” sponsored by World Bank conducted by BIDS during 2012 - 13.