Md Imtiaz Hossain

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center working on multimodal foundational AI models for medicine and healthcare. My research spans knowledge distillation, efficient deep learning, brain foundation models, sample efficient learning, 3D pose estimation, and computer vision. I completed my Ph.D. (in CSE), M.S. (in CSE), M.Sc.(in ICT) and B.Sc. (in ICT) at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, supported by the Korean Presidential Scholarship, and Islamic University, Bangladesh, respectively. I am eager to contribute to cutting-edge AI research by leveraging my expertise in artificial intelligence, deep learning, knowledge distillation, preserving prior knowledge and representation, and efficient model design to address key challenges in healthcare and medicine by developing robust multimodal brain foundation models (BFMs), digital twin brain, computer vision, biometrics, causal learning, biomarker detection, and disease prediction. My goal is to develop innovative, scalable solutions through academic research by leveraging modern state-of-the-art AI technologies to enhance model performance in real-world medical scenarios to diagnose diseases by analyzing MRI, CT scan, ECG, EEG, and other multimodal medical data. My research directly tackles problems such as subject-invariant learning, segmentation under distribution shift, multi-modal action understanding, causal learning, active learning, catastrophic forgetting, task transfer, and computational efficiency.

News

Apr 2026
Position
Joined UT Southwestern Medical Center as Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Bioinformatics, Dallas, TX.
2026
Paper
Robust 3D Pose Estimation via Occlusion-Aware Training and Test Time Adaptation.
ICT Express, Elsevier
Jun 2026
Tutorial
Released 7-part tutorial series: MRI Processing Pipeline — DICOM/NIfTI to Transformer-Ready Tensors.
Google Colab notebooks · PyTorch · TorchIO · ANTsPy · HD-BET
Sep 2025
Teaching
Appointed Part-time Lecturer, Dept. of AI, Kyung Hee University.
Courses: AI Creative Research Project 2 · Convolutional Neural Networks
Sep 2025
Position
Joined as a Research Professor at the Dept. of CSE, Kyung Hee University.
Efficient and Robust Deep learning
2025
Degree
Awarded Ph.D. from the dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. Improving Representational Expertise of Teacher Networks in Knowledge Distillation
Jan 2025
Paper
Single Teacher, Multiple Perspectives: Teacher Knowledge Augmentation for Enhanced Knowledge Distillation. Top Tier A*
2025
Paper
Why Logit Distillation Works: A Novel KD Technique via Target Augmentation and Logits Distortion.
2025
Paper
Complexity-Aware Dynamic Gradient Shifting for 3D Pose Estimation and Regression Learning.
IEEE TCSVT IF 8.3 · Q1
2024
Patent
US Patent Application No. 18/539,431 — Activated Neurons Responses Transfer via Sparse Activation Maps in Knowledge Distillation.
2024
Paper
PURF: Improving Teacher Representations by Imposing Smoothness Constraints for Knowledge Distillation.
Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier IF 7.2 · Q1
2021
Degree
Awarded Masters Degree from the dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. Human Action Recognition from Videos.

Research Interests

Knowledge Distillation & TransferNovel training strategies for compressing and transferring representational knowledge
AI for Medicine & HealthcareMultimodal foundational models, medical imaging (MRI, CT, ECG, EEG)
Brain Foundation ModelsLarge-scale pre-trained models for EEG/fMRI/MEG signals; subject-invariant representations, neural decoding, and cross-modal transfer for brain-computer interfaces.
Efficient & Lightweight ModelsEdge deployment, low-resource devices, foundational LLMs
Computer Vision & BiometricsAction recognition, moving object detection, digital forensics
Digital Twin BrainA personalized, computational replica of an individual's brain — built from their neural data (EEG, fMRI, MRI, MEG, etc.) — that mirrors the structure, function, and dynamics of the real brain in a virtual model.

Selected Publications

2026
Robust 3D Pose Estimation via Occlusion-Aware Training and Test Time Adaptation
Hossain MI, Akhter S, Yang S, Huh EN.
ICT Express, Elsevier, 2026.
2025
Single Teacher, Multiple Perspectives: Teacher Knowledge Augmentation for Enhanced Knowledge Distillation
Hossain MI, Akhter S, Hong CS, Huh EN.
Top Tier A*
2025
Why Logit Distillation Works: A Novel KD Technique by Deriving Target Augmentation and Logits Distortion
Hossain MI, Akhter S, Mahbub NI, Hong CS, Huh EN.
IF 7.4 · Q1
2025
Complexity-Aware Dynamic Gradient Shifting: A Novel Soft Supervision Training Strategy for 3D Pose Estimation and Regression Learning
Hossain MI, Akhter S, Hong CS, Huh EN.
IF 8.3 · Q1
2024
PURF: Improving Teacher Representations by Imposing Smoothness Constraints for Knowledge Distillation
Hossain MI, Akhter S, Hong CS, Huh EN.
Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, 2024.
IF 7.2 · Q1
2023
The Role of Microservice Approach in Edge Computing: Opportunities, Challenges, and Research Directions
Hossain MD, Sultana T, Akhter S, Hossain MI, et al.
ICT Express, Elsevier, 2023.
IF 4.1
2022
NeuRes: Highly Activated Neurons Responses Transfer via Distilling Sparse Activation Maps
Akhter S, Hossain MI, Hossain MD, Huh EN.
IF 3.4
2020
Batch Entropy Supervised CNNs for Feature Extraction and Harmonizing for Action Recognition
Hossain MI, Siddique A, Hossain MA, Hossain MD, Huh EN.
IF 3.4

Full list on Google Scholar.

Experience

Apr 2026 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dept. of Bioinformatics, Dallas, TX
Developing multimodal foundational AI models for medicine, healthcare, and biomedical research.
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026
Part-time Lecturer
Kyung Hee University, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, South Korea
Taught AI Creative Research Project 2 and Convolutional Neural Networks at graduate level.
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026
Research Professor
Kyung Hee University, Institute of Industry Academia Collaboration, South Korea
Lightweight LLM foundational models for low-resource devices.
Sep 2021 – Aug 2025
Research Assistant (PhD)
Knowledge distillation; improving performance of lightweight architectures. Korean Presidential Scholar.
Mar 2019 – Feb 2021
Research Assistant (MS)
Visual-based human action recognition from video. BK21 Scholar.
Jan 2017 – Jun 2017
Software Engineer Intern
LEADS Corporation Limited, Bangladesh
Embedded and IoT-based home and industry automation applications.

Education

2021 – 2025
Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering
Thesis: Enhancing Representational Expertise of Knowledge Sources for Distillation and Transfer · Korean Presidential Scholarship
2019 – 2021
M.S., Computer Science & Engineering
Thesis: Discriminative Feature Learning through Batch Entropy Supervision and Augmentation in CNNs · BK21 Scholarship
2016 – 2018
M.Sc., Information & Communication Technology
Islamic University, Bangladesh
Thesis: Human Activity Recognition Using CNN and HMM
2012 – 2016
B.Sc., Information & Communication Technology
Islamic University, Bangladesh

Teaching

Part-time Lecturer · Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Kyung Hee University, South Korea · Sep 2025 – Mar 2026

Spring 2026
AI Creative Research Project 2  [Course page]
Graduate level (Master's & PhD) · Dept. of AI, Kyung Hee University
Project-based course guiding students through the full research cycle: problem formulation, literature review, experimental design, and paper writing in AI.
Fall 2025
Convolutional Neural Networks  [Course page]
Graduate level (Master's & PhD) · Dept. of AI, Kyung Hee University
Covers CNN foundations, modern architectures (ResNet, VGG, EfficientNet), object detection, semantic segmentation, and knowledge distillation techniques.

Tutorials

Hands-on notebooks and guides bridging research concepts with practical implementation. All code is open-source and runs on Google Colab (free GPU tier).

MRI Processing Pipeline — DICOM/NIfTI to Transformer-Ready Tensors 7 notebooks

A complete step-by-step series for neuroscientists transitioning from FSL to Python/PyTorch. Covers the full preprocessing pipeline from raw scanner data to transformer input tokens, with theory and intuition at every step.

01
Load DICOM & NIfTI — Affine Matrix, Metadata, First Tensor
Read scanner files with nibabel, pydicom, and SimpleITK. Understand the affine matrix, DICOM slice sorting, and building the [B, C, D, H, W] tensor.
NotebooknibabelSimpleITKPyTorchColab
02
Skull Stripping — HD-BET, ANTsPy, and Heuristic Methods [Cooming soon]
Remove non-brain tissue using three approaches: HD-BET (deep learning), ANTsPy atlas-based, and Otsu+morphology. FSL BET equivalent in Python.
NotebookHD-BETANTsPyBrain MRI
03
Bias Field Correction — N4ITK via SimpleITK & ANTsPy [Cooming soon]
Correct MRI intensity inhomogeneity with N4ITK. Understand the multiplicative bias model, B-spline fitting, and how it sharpens tissue histogram peaks.
NotebookSimpleITKANTsPyPreprocessing
04
Registration to MNI Space — Rigid, Affine, and SyN (ANTs) [Cooming soon]
Align brains to MNI152 using rigid (6 DOF), affine (12 DOF), and deformable SyN registration. FSL FLIRT/FNIRT equivalent with label map warping.
NotebookANTsPyTorchIOMNI152
05
Intensity Normalization — Z-score, Percentile, Histogram Matching [Cooming soon]
Compare five normalization strategies. Learn why statistics must be computed on brain voxels only, and integrate everything with TorchIO DataLoaders.
NotebookTorchIOPyTorchMulti-site
06
MRI Augmentation — Spatial, Intensity, and Artifact Simulation [Cooming soon]
MRI-specific augmentation cookbook: valid flips, elastic deformation, bias field simulation, Rician noise, and motion artifacts. Covers the geometric/intensity split for paired label maps.
NotebookTorchIOPyTorchData Aug
07
Patchification & 3D Vision Transformer — Volume to Token Sequence [Cooming soon]
Build a 3D ViT from scratch: patch embedding, multi-head self-attention, positional encoding, and CLS-token attention visualization. Full pipeline from NIfTI to classification logits.
NotebookPyTorcheinopsViT · 3D
Knowledge Distillation — From Logits to Feature-Level Transfer [Cooming soon] 3 notebooks

Practical implementations of KD methods, from vanilla logit distillation to the teacher augmentation strategy from ICLR 2025.

01
Vanilla Knowledge Distillation — Hinton et al. from Scratch [Cooming soon]
Implement the original KD loss (soft labels + temperature scaling) in PyTorch. Understand why soft targets carry more information than one-hot labels and how temperature controls this.
NotebookPyTorchColab
02
Feature-Level Distillation — Intermediate Layer Matching [Cooming soon]
Transfer knowledge through intermediate feature maps using FitNets, AT, and RKD. Understand when feature distillation outperforms logit-only distillation.
NotebookPyTorchResNet
03
Teacher Augmentation for KD — ICLR 2025 Implementation
Implement the multi-perspective teacher augmentation strategy from Single Teacher, Multiple Perspectives (ICLR 2025). Generate diverse soft targets from a single teacher to improve student training.
NotebookPyTorchICLR 2025

More tutorials in progress. Star the GitHub repository to be notified of new releases.

Contact

AddressDept. of Bioinformatics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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