Dr. Tanvir Alam

Associate Professor

Email

talam@hbku.edu.qa

Phone

+974 44542277

Office location

A 161, 1st floor, LAS Building

Dr. Tanvir Alam

Associate Professor

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science

Entity

College of Science and Engineering

Division

Information & Computing Technology

Biography

Dr. Alam is an Assistant Professor at the College of Science and Engineering. His research work is centered around the application of artificial intelligence (AI) on the diagnosis and prognosis of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

His work aims at risk factor stratification, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, and recommending personalized treatment plans for conditions such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and lung cancer. His vision is to establish an AI-enabled personalized healthcare system for the community at a larger scale.

PhD in Computer Science

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

2016

  • Precision Health
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bioinformatics

Associate Professor

College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2024 - Present

Assistant Professor

College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2018 - 2024

Arif, M., Musleh, S., Fida, H., & Alam, T. (2024). PLMACPred: Prediction of anticancer peptides based on protein language model and wavelet denoising transformation. Scientific Reports.

Alam, T., Agrawal, S., Severin, J., Young, R. S., Andersson, R., Arner, E., Hasegawa, A., Lizio, M., Ramilowski, J., Abugessaisa, I., Ishizu, Y., Noma, S., Tarui, H., Taylor, M. S., Lassmann, T., Itoh, M., Kasukawa, T., Kawaji, H., Marchionni, L., Sheng, G., Forrest, A. R., Khachigian, L. M., Hayashizaki, Y., Carninci, P., & de Hoon, M. (2020). Comparative transcriptomics of primary cells in vertebrates. Genome Research, 30(12), 1752–1765.

de Rie, D., Abugessaisa, I., Alam, T., Arner, E., Arner, P., Ashoor, H., Åström, G., Babina, M., Bertin, N., Burroughs, A. M., Daub, C. O., Detmar, M., Deviatiiarov, R., Fort, A., Goldowitz, D., Guhl, S., Harshbarger, J., Hasegawa, A., Hashimoto, K., Heutink, P., ... Forrest, A. R. R. (2017). FANTOM5 integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters. Nature Biotechnology, 35(9), 872–878.

Hon, C. C., Ramilowski, J. A., Harshbarger, J., Bertin, N., Rackham, O. J. L., Gough, J., Denisenko, E., Schmeier, S., Poulsen, T. M., Severin, J., Lizio, M., Kawaji, H., Kasukawa, T., Itoh, M., Burroughs, A. M., Noma, S., Djebal, S. I., Alam, T., Medvedeva, Y. A., Testa, A. C., Lipovich, L., Yip, C. W., Abugessaisa, I., Mendez, M., Hasegawa, A., Tang, D., Lassmann, T., Heutink, P., Babina, M., Wells, C. A., Kojima, S., Nakamura, Y., Suzuki, H., Daub, C. O., de Hoon, M. J. L., Arner, E., the FANTOM Consortium, Hayashizaki, Y., Carninci, P., & Forrest, A. R. R. (2017). An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5′ ends. Nature, 543(7644), 199–204.

Alam, T., Uludag, M., Essack, M., Salhi, A., Ashoor, H., Hanks, J. B., Kapfer, C., Mineta, K., Gojobori, T., & Bajic, V. B. (2016). FARNA: Knowledgebase of annotated functions of non-coding RNA transcripts. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(D1), D130–D135.

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