Hamid D. Ismail

Biography

Hamid D. Ismail received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from NC A&T State University, USA, and his DVM and B.Sc. from the University of Khartoum. He earned several professional certifications including SAS Certified Base Programmer, SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer, and SQL Expert Programmer. He is a computational scientist, bioinformatician, biologist, statistician, and machine learning specialist. Hamid is an Assistant Professor and Research High-performance Computing Admin in the Department of Computational Data Science and Engineering at NC A&T State University. He worked as a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Michigan Technological University and as a Research Associate in the Department of Animal Sciences at NC A&T State University. Hamid teaches graduate-level courses including Programming for Scalable Computing Systems, Bioinformatics, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Computational Modeling. Hamid's research projects are focused on bioinformatics algorithms, the application of machine learning in genomic data and post-translational protein modifications, and genomic data science including the development of bioinformatics tools. Hamid is also peer-reviewing for several renowned journals. He published two bioinformatics textbooks and a book on computational statistics.