Faculty Profile

Dr. Mohammad Ohid Ullah

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Professor Institute of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801818101435
  • Email: ohid-sta@sust.edu, ohidullah@gmail.com

Biography

Dr. Mohammad Ohid Ullah ( মোহাম্মদ ওহিদ উল্যা ) was born in Madhobpur village, Chatkhil thana under Noakhali district, Bangladesh. He joined as a lecturer at the department of Statistics in 2004. In 2007 he promoted as an assistant professor , in 2013 he promoted as an associate professor and in 2016 he promoted as professor.

Education

  • PhD in Nutritional Systems Biology of Fat: Integration and modeling of transcriptomics datasets related to lipid homeostasis (2012), at the Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics group, Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands. http://edepot.wur.nl/233181
  • M.Sc. in Statistics Biostatistics (2008), Hasselt University, Belgium
  • M.Sc. in Applied Statistics (2007), Hasselt University, Belgium.
  • M.Sc. in Statistics (2000- held in 2003), SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
  • B.Sc. in Statistics (1999- held in 2002), SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
  • HSC (1996) Noakhali Govt. College, Noakhali, Bangladesh
  • SSC (1994) Datta Para Ram Ratan Adarsha High School, Lakshmipur, Bangladesh

Research Interests

  • Biostatistics and Epidemiology
  • Generalized Linear Models
  • Linear Mixed models
  • Longitudinal data analysis
  • Bioinformatics
  • Integrate ~omics datasets
  • Cancer
  • Nutritional Systems Biology
  • Obesity
  • Data Mining
  • Public Health
  • Skin Diseases
  • Sampling Techniques
  • Poverty reduction

Active Research Project

  • Identifying the factors related to skin diseases in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study, Funded by University Research Center, SUST, Sylhet, during 2022-2024 session as PI.
  • An Application of Generalized Estimating Equations(GEE) to detect the effect of microcredit on poverty reduction, Funded by University Research Center, SUST, Sylhet, during 2023-2024 session as PI.

Previous Research Project

  • Obesity of primary school children at Sylhet city, Funded by University Research Center, SUST, Sylhet, during 2013-2014 session as Principal Investigator.
  • Extent of environmental and heritability effects on cancer at Sylhet city, Funded by University Research Center, SUST, Sylhet, during 2015-2016 session as Principal Investigator.
  • Obesity of primary school going children: A longitudinal study, Funded by University Research Center, SUST, during 2016-2018 session as Principal Investigator.
  • Extent of lifestyle and heritability effects on cancer in Bangladesh, Funded by University Research Center, SUST, during 2018-2020 session as Principal Investigator.
  • Lifestyle and food habits of high school going students in north-eastern part of Bangladesh, Funded by University Research Center, SUST, during 2020-2022 session as PI.

Journal Publish

  • 1. Arini, L.H.Y., Solimun, Ullah, M.O. (2024). CART Classification on Ordinal Scale Data with Unbalanced Proportions using Ensemble Bagging Approach. JTAM, 8(2),441-453
  • 2. Sonia, J.B., Hasan, S.R., Sultana, N., Akter, M.F. and Ullah, M.O. (2024). Impact of Microcredit on Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: a cross- sectional study MEJMCS, 2(2): 62-69.
  • 3. Khan, M.A.A., Sonia, J.B. and Ullah, M.O. (2024). Breakfast habit of high school going students in Bangladesh: a correspondence analysis. Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. 2024, 10(3), 99-109
  • 4. Khan, M.A.A, Babu, M.R. Tasnim, S., Tarannum, A. Haque, M.A., Sultana, N., and Ullah, M.O. (2024). Potential association between allergenic food and skin disease in Bangladesh: an application of principal component logistic regression(PCLR). Health Sci. Rep.; e70110. (accepted)
  • 5. Sathi, S.S., Ullah, M.O. (2023). Measuring the Performance of Supervised Machine Learning Approaches Using Cancer Data. In: Interdisciplinary Cancer Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/16833_2023_193
  • 6. Ohid Ullah, M. , & Khan, M. A. A. (2023). Survival Probabilities and Lifestyle of Lung and Throat Cancer Patients inBangladesh. Journal of Scientific Research in Medical and Biological Sciences, 4(2), 36-40.
  • 7. Mst. Farzana Akter, Mohammad Ohid Ullah (2022). Awareness levels of breast cancer among female university and medical college students in Sylhet city of Bangladesh. Cancer Reports.e1608. doi:10.1002/cnr2.1608
  • 8. Akter, M. F. ., Sathi, S. S. ., Akter, A. ., & Ullah, M. O. (2022). Applying an Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Detect Dietary Habits of Breast Cancer Patients in Bangladesh . Journal of Scientific Research in Medical and Biological Sciences, 3(1), 29-36. https://doi.org/10.47631/jsrmbs.v3i1.457
  • 9. Mohammad Ohid Ullah and Mst. Farzana Akter (2021) Selecting Covariance Structure to Analyze Longitudinal Data: A Study to Model the Body Mass Index of Primary School-Going Children in Bangladesh. In: Sinha B.K., Mollah M.N.H. (eds) Data Science and SDGs. Springer, Singapore.147-153.
  • 10. Akter, M. F., Sathi, S. S., Mitu, S., & Ohid Ullah, M. (2021). Lifestyle and heritability effects on cancer in Bangladesh: an application of Cox proportional hazards model. Asian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 7(1), 82–89.
  • 11. Sunny, A. H., Chowdhury, M. S. I., & Ullah, M.O. (2021). Lifestyle and dietary habits of high school going students in north-eastern part of Bangladesh during COVID-19 Pandemic. Asian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 7(4), 359–366.
  • 12. Alam, A. Ohid Ullah, M. Islam, M. S. (2021) Modelling the Evolution of Serum Cholesterol Level of Broiler Chickens. Asian Journal of Dairy and Food Research. DR-234.
  • 13. Saeed Anwar, Jarin Taslem Mourosi, Md. Fahim Khan, Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Olivier M. Vanakker, Mohammad Jakir Hosen (2020) Chikungunya Outbreak in Bangladesh (2017): Clinical and hematological findings, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14(2): e0007466
  • 14. Tanvir Ahammed, Akter, M. F., Suchana, A. J., Chowdhury, A. A., Shah, M. R. T., Rahman, M. S., Akter, A. and M. Ohid Ullah (2020) Survival Probabilities of Stomach and Colon Cancer Patients in Bangladesh. Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. 6 (1), 123-129
  • 15. Masud Alam , Mohammad Ohid Ullah , Syeda Umme Fahmida Malik , Mohammad Shahidul Islam (2020). Broiler and Indigenous Chickens: A Comparison through Biochemical Parameters. International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Research, 7(4): 228-233.
  • 16. S. M. Abdullah, Iftekhar Ahmad, Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Rayhan Uddin, W. U. Rahman, (2019) Studies on Aeromycoflora in Different Tea Estates of Sylhet. International Advanced Research Journal in Science, Engineering and Technology, 6(12).
  • 17. Mst. Farzana Akter, Tanjila Islam, Kaniz Fatema Trisha and Mohammad Ohid Ullah (2019) An overview of data mining in medical informatics: Bangladesh perspective. Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. 5 (4), 258-264.
  • 18. M. Alam, M. Ohid Ullah, Mirajul Islam and M. Shahidul Islam (2017) Mining the Feed Effects on Five Weeks Old Broiler Chicken, IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, 10(5):04-09.
  • 19. M.Baidya and M. OhidUllah (2017) Measuring Distance to Integrate High-throughput Datasets with the Supplementary Variable. Journal of Applied Quantitative Methodology, 12(1).
  • 20. T. Ferdous and M. Ohid Ullah (2017) An Overview of RNA-seq Data Analysis, Journal of Biology and Life Science, 8(2), 57-69.
  • 21. Mohammad Meshbhahur Rahman, Zaki Farhana, Tania Akter Tani and Mohammad Ohid Ullah (2017) Integrating Overweight-obesity and Reproductive Factors of Married Women in Bangladesh. Society & Change, 11(4): 63-75.
  • 22. B. C. Rakshit, M. Ohid Ullah and D. Mishra (2016) Thermal Manipulation in Broilers and Layers, JAQM, 11(2): 63-72.
  • 23. M. Ohid Ullah, A. Akhter ,N. Sultana, M. Baidya M, J.H. Jiban (2016) Extents of Environmental and Heritability Effects on Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study at Sylhet City in Bangladesh. Biom Biostat Int J, 4(1): 00088.
  • 24. Abul Fazal Md Salahuddin, M.M.A. Khan, Mohammad Ohid Ullah and Nasrin Jahan (2015) Job Satisfaction and University Administrative Staffs: An Exploratory Study. JAQM, 10(4): 27-39.
  • 25. M. Taj Uddin, Mohammad Kamal Hossain, and M. Ohid Ullah (2015) Growth and Instability in Area and Production of Pulse in Bangladesh. Journal of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 1(4):163-167.
  • 26. M Ohid Ullah, Md. Abu Hasan, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Abul Hasan Chowdhury, Novel Chandra Das, Md. Jamal Uddin, Mohammed Taj Uddin (2014) Obesity of Primary School Children: a Cross-sectional study in Bangladesh, IJSER, 5(12): 263-270.
  • 27. M Ohid Ullah (2014) A Brief Overview of Multivariate Data Analysis in Biological Sciences, Journal of Biology and Life Science, 5(1).
  • 28. M Ohid Ullah, Md. Abu Hasan and M Taj Uddin (2014) Environmental awareness and disaster factors in Bangladesh, JAQM, 8(4):34-42.
  • 29. M Ohid Ullah (2013) Improving the output of signaling pathway impact analysis, RSR, 61(3):38-43.
  • 30. M Taj Uddin, M Anamul Huq, M Nazrul Islam and M Ohid Ullah (2013) Trend of Foreign Exchange Earnings by the Visitors in Bangladesh, JAQM, 8(1): 19-25.
  • 31. M Ohid Ullah, Michael Muller, and Guido JEJ Hooiveld (2012) An integrated statistical approach to compare transcriptomics data across experiments: a case study on the identification of candidate target genes of the transcription factor PPAR. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 6: 145154.
  • 32. K.K. Islam, M. Hoogstra, M. Ohid Ullah, N. Sato, (2012) Economic contribution of participatory agroforestry program to poverty alleviation: a case from Sal forests, Bangladesh. Journal of Forestry Research, 23(2): 323-332.
  • 33. Mohammad Ohid Ullah (2012) Nutritional Systems Biology of Fat: Integration and modeling of transcriptomics datasets related to lipid homeostasis (2012), Thesis Wageningen UR, The Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6173-381-8.
  • 34. Mohammad Ohid Ullah (2010) Some statistical advice for the non-statisticians: Common examples of useful statistical tools by SPSS for the non-statisticians. VDM-Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-639-28013-5.
  • 35. David L.M. van der Meer, Maryam Rakhshandehroo, Mohammad O. Ullah, Philip J. de Groot, Sacco C. de Vries, Michael Muller, and Sander kersten (2010) Comaprative microarray analysis of PPARα induced gene expression in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 and primary human hepatocytes, In: Maryam Rakhshandehroo (2010) PPARα: Master regulator of lipid metabolism in Mouse and human, chapter 6, pp 159-180, Thesis Wageningen University, Netherlands. ISBN: 978-90-8585-771-6
  • 36. M. Ohid Ullah, M. Jamal Uddin, Dr. M Rahman, M. Nazrul Islam, and M. Taj. Uddin, (2009) A Study to detect the seasonal effect of chickenpox in Bangladesh. Romanian Statistical Review, 12:61-66.
  • 37. M. Jamal Uddin, M. Zakir Hoosain, M. Ohid Ullah (2009) Child Mortality in a Developing Country: A Statistical Analysis. Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods (JAQM), 4(3):270-283.
  • 38. M. Nazrul Islam, M. Ohid Ullah, and M. Taj Uddin (2006). A Study on Health Status of Urban Pregnant women of Bangladesh with Respect to Body Mass Index and Weight Gain.J. Med. Sci., 6(2): 249-252.
  • 39. Mohammad Taj Uddin, M.T. Islam and M. Ohid Ullah (2006). A Study of the Quality of Nurses of Government Hospitals in Bangladesh. PPAS, 43(2):121-129.
  • 40. M. Nazrul Islam,and M. Ohid Ullah (2005). Knowledge and Attitude of Urban Pregnant Women of Bangladesh towards Nutrition, Health Care Practice and Delivery Place. J. Med. Sci., 5(2):116-119.

External Affiliations

  • 2009-2012, as a member of STAT-advice committee, Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • 2009-2012, an instructor of Applied Data Analysis course, Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Member of Bangladesh Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Association ( BBCBA )
  • Member of Bangladesh Statistical Association

Awards & Recognition

  • Comilla Education Board Scholarship
  • UGC scholarship
  • Vice Chancellor’s book prize for being the first position in BSc (Hons) level.
  • VLIR scholarship to do Masters in Biostatistics at Hasselt University, Belgium.

Conference

  • 1. Jakia Benta Sonia, Syed Rakibul Hasan and Mohammad Ohid Ullah (2024) Impact of Microcredit on Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh. 7th ICSD’24, 19-20 February 2024. UIU, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • 2. Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Extent of lifestyle and heritability effects on cancer: Bangladesh perspective (2023). Brawijaya Internatonal Conference (Hybrid) on Statistical Modeling and Data Science, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia (26-27 Sept, 2023), as Keynote Speaker.
  • 3. Md. Abrar Ashfaq Khan, Md. Rashed Babu, Sumaya Mahiat, Atkia Atia, H. M. Shariful Ala, Md. Anamul Haque, Nahid Sultana, and Mohammad Ohid Ullah (2023). Brawijaya Internatonal Conference (Hybrid) on Statistical Modeling and Data Science, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia ( 26-27 Sept, 2023)
  • 4. Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Mst. Farzana Akter, Tama Rani Saha, Md. Nazrul Islam (2022). Obesity and Food Habits of Primary School Going Children: A Longitudinal Study. Global Summit on Obesity and Hormones, UK, May 03-04, 2022. (WEBINAR)
  • 5. Ahsan Habib Sunny, Muhammad Sakib Ibtidha Chowdhury and Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Lifestyle and dietary habits of high school going students in north-eastern part of Bangladesh Third Conference on Statistics and Data Science, CSDS 2021, Salvador, Brazil, October 28-30, 2021 (WEBINAR)
  • 6. Piali Dey Bristi, Amrita Das Anna, Mohammed Amran Hossain and Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Women Empowerment and Reproductive Health in Bangladesh. 4th ICSD’19, 18-19 February 2020. UIU, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • 7. Tanvir Ahammed, Akter, M. F., Suchana, A. J., Chowdhury, A. A., Shah, M. R. T., Rahman, M. S., Akter, A. and M. Ohid Ullah., Survival Probabilities of Stomach and Colon Cancer Patients in Bangladesh. 2nd International Conference on Applied Statistics (ICAS 2919) 27-29 Dec 2019, ISRT, DU, Bangladesh.
  • 8. Mohammed Amran Hossain, Shahnaj Sultana Sathi, Md. Sabbir Hossain and Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Assessing the livelihood status of fishermen at Sunamganj district in Bangladesh. 2nd International Conference on Applied Statistics (ICAS 2919) 27 Dec-29 Dec 2019, ISRT, DU, Bangladesh.
  • 9. Zaki Farhana & Tania Akhter Tani Tanjila Akter, and M. Ohid Ullah, Socio-demographic factors for living standard of ever married women in Bangladesh. International Conference on Social Work and Sustainable Social Development 2018, January 4-6, 2018,SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh
  • 10. Tanjila Akter, Arifa Ahmed, Mst. Farzana Akter and Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Lifestyles and Clinical Pathological Changes of Cancer Patients in Bangladesh. 5th International Conference on Natural Siences and Technology (ICNST’18), 30-31 March, 2018, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
  • 11. Abdur Rahman Ataul Mustufa Anik Ayesha Akhter, and Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Cancer in South-Asia: A Systematic Review. Insearch 2017, 4th International Integrative Research Conference on Education, Governance and Development, 18 & 19 December 2017, BARD, Comilla, Bangladesh.
  • 12. Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman Zaki Farhana Tania Akhter Tani Mohammad Ohid Ullah, Integrating Overweight-obesity and Reproductive Factors of Married Women in Bangladesh. Insearch 2017, 4th International Integrative Research Conference on Education, Governance and Development, 18 & 19 December 2017, BARD, Comilla, Bangladesh.
  • 13. M Alam, M Shahidul Islam and M Ohid Ullah (2017) Time dependent pattern of body growth and lipid profile of broiler chickens associated with feeds, Conference of Bangladesh Statistical Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • 14. M Ohid Ullah and Tahsin Ferdous (2017) A comparative study to analyze RNA-sequencing data. International Conference on Genomics, Nanotech and Bioengineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 15. M Ohid Ullah and Mousumi Baidya (2017) An approach to integrate transcriptomics datasets with the body weight gain. Internaltional Conference on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for Agriculture, Health and Environment, Proceedings, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
  • 16. M Masud Alam, M Ohid Ullah, Mrajul Islam and M Shahidul Islam (2017) Assessing feed effects and serum biomarkers on poultry chicken. Internaltional Conference on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for Agriculture, Health and Environment, Proceedings, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
  • 17. M Ohid Ullah and Ayesha Akhter (2015) Extent of Environmental and Heritability effects on cancer in Bangladesh. ESMO Asia congress, Singapore Annals of Oncology (2015) 26 (suppl_9): 156-160. 10.1093/annonc/mdv535
  • 18. M Ohid Ullah, Guido Hooiveld and Michael Muller (2011) Integrative analysis of PPARα dependent pathways in mouse liver and small intestine. From Data to Models in Biological Systems. Kandersteg, Switzerland
  • 19. M Ohid Ullah, Guido Hooiveld and Michael Muller (2011) Integrating trancriptomics datasets. Advanced visualization, integration and biological interpretation of ~omics data, VLAG-WIAS, WUR
  • 20. M Ohid Ullah, Guido Hooiveld and Michael Muller (2011) A systems biological approach to develop pathway score. SMBES2011 (Statistical modeling for biological and environmental systems, Venice, Italy
  • 21. M Ohid Ullah, Guido Hooiveld and Michael Muller (2009) Detecting ppar-alpha dependent genes, Kuopio University, Finland
  • 22. M Ohid Ullah, Guido Hooiveld and Michael Muller (2009) Modeling gene expression data. Multivariate-Data Modeling for Systems Biology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.

Teaching

  • Advanced Data Analysis, Data Mining (Graduate level)
  • Biostatistics and Epidemiology
  • Economic Statistics
  • Regression Analysis
  • Basic Statistics
  • Business Statistics
  • Operations Research
  • Statistical Inference
  • Sampling Techniques

Graduate Supervision

  • Md. Abu Hasan, Comparative study to detect differentially expressed genes ( December, 2015)
  • Ayesha Akhter, Extents of environmental and heritability effects on cancer (December, 2015)
  • Tahsin Ferdous, A comparative study of RNA-sequencing data analysis (December, 2016)
  • Mousumi Baidya, An Approach to integrate transcriptomics datasets with the body weight gain ( December, 2016)
  • Toma Rani Shaha, Longitudinal study on obesity of primary school children (December, 2017)
  • Md. Aminul Kaiser, Informatics and Statistics for High-throughput Metabolomics Data Analysis (December, 2017)
  • Mst. Farzana Akter, Breast cancer and its awareness levels... ( August, 2019)
  • Md. Masud Alam, PhD Student , A longitudinal study of poultry chickens for detecting age-dependent pattern of hazardous components and plausible feed effects (2015- 2019)).
  • Shahnaj Sultana Sathi, Selecting a Machine Learning Approach to Detect Lifestyle Factors of Cancer Patients in Bangladesh (November, 2021)
  • Md. Rashed Babu, Cancer in Bangladesh: A systematic Review and Meta-analysis ( July, 2023)
  • Robiul Islam Akash, Assessing Family Specific Health Performance in Bangladesh (July, 2024)