Scholar
Ruhul Amin, PhD
Google Scholar ID: N_yWGjIAAAAJ
Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University
Citations & Impact
Citations
952
H-index
16
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
63
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Ruhul Amin, Pranav Garg, Baris Coskun. Anomaly Detection for High Cardinality Discrete Spaces using Noise-contrastive Estimation. submitted for publication, 2018.
- Jason Jones, Ruhul Amin, Jessica Kim, Steven Skiena. Stereotypical Gender Associations in Language Have Decreased Over Time. submitted for publication, 2018.
- Ruhul Amin, Alisa Yurovsky, Yingtao Tian, Steven Skiena. DeepAnnotator: Genome Annotation with Deep Learning. ACM-BCB, 2018.
- Alisa Yurovsky, Ruhul Amin, Justin Gardin, Yuping Chen, Steven Skiena, Bruce Futcher. Prokaryotic coding regions have little if any specific depletion of Shine-Dalgarno motifs. PLOS One, 2018.
- Ruhul Amin, Alisa Yurovsky, Yuping Chen, Steven Skiena, Bruce Futcher. Re-annotation of 12,495 prokaryotic 16S rRNA 3’ ends and analysis of Shine-Dalgarno and anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequences. PLOS One, 2018.
- Ruhul Amin, Steven Skiena, Michael C. Schatz. NanoBLASTer: Fast alignment and characterization of Oxford Nanopore single molecule sequencing reads. IEEE ICCABS, 2016.
- Arzuba Akter, Md Muzahidul Islam, Shakhinur Islam Mondal, Zabed Mahmud, Nurnabi Azad Jewel, Sabiha Ferdous, Ruhul Amin, Md Mahfuzur Rahman. Computational identification of miRNA and targets from expressed sequence tags of coffee (Coffea arabica). Elsevier SJBS, 2014.
Research Experience
- May 2018 – August 2018, Research Scientist Intern at Amazon AI, New York, CADENCE: Conditional Anomaly Detection for Events using Noise Contrastive Estimation
- August 2017 – January 2018, Research Scientist Intern at Amazon AI, New York, Modeling User Behavior using CloudTrail Traces
- January 2016 – May 2016, Research Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, Bengali Word Embeddings and NLP Applications
- June 2015 – August 2015, Research Assistant at Laufer Center for Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University, SHMPrep: Efficient Preprocessing and Error Correction of Paired-end Immunoglobulin Sequence
- May 2014 – August 2014, Research Assistant at Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, NanoBLASTer: Fast Alignment Algorithms for Long and Noisy Oxford Nanopore Reads
- July 2009 – August 2013, Assistant Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Teaching Undergraduate Students and Research in Bengali NLP
- May 2007 – June 2009, Team Leader (Software Development) at AfriGIS (Pty) Ltd, iSearch: Location Based Information Retrieval System
Background
- Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science department at Fordham University. Obtained a PhD from the Computer Science department at Stony Brook University, supervised by Professor Steven Skiena. As a graduate research assistant at the Institute of Advanced Computational Science, involved in leading multiple collaborative research works in Bioinformatics and Social Science. During an internship at Amazon AWS AI Algorithms group, developed deep learning-based anomaly detection algorithms. Currently leads a small research group at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, focusing on Bengali Natural Language Processing.
Miscellany
- Interests include Deep Learning, Bioinformatics, Data Science, Natural Language Processing, and Computational Social Science.
