Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

My publications span Machine Learning for Healthcare, Satellite-Based QKD, and earlier research in machine learning, data mining, distributed systems, and optimization.

Machine Learning for Healthcare

1. Md Zakir Hossain, S. Sahoo, and B. Wang.
   “Sequential Mood and Anxiety Modeling with Contrastive Learning for Depression Treatment Outcome Prediction”
   Work in Progress.

2. Md Zakir Hossain, S. Sahoo, C. Shende, P. Patel, R. Morillo, Z. Pan, X. Wang, J. Bi, et al.
   “Predicting Depression Treatment Outcome Using Daily Step Count Sensory Data.”
   ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 2025.

3. S. Sahoo, Md Zakir Hossain, C. Shende, P. Patel, Y. Niu, R. Morillo, X. Wang, et al.
   “Cross-platform Prediction of Depression Treatment Outcome Using Location Sensory Data on Smartphones.”
   ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2025.

4. S. Sahoo, Md Zakir Hossain, C. Shende, P. Patel, X. Wang, J. Bi, J. Kamath, et al.
   “Smartphone Data Gathered Early in Depression Treatment Predicts Treatment Outcome.”
   ACM/IEEE Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2025.

5. S. Sahoo, C. Shende, Md Zakir Hossain, P. Patel, X. Wang, M. I. Mahmud, J. Bi, J. Kamath, et al.
   “Using Mobile Daily Mood and Anxiety Self-ratings to Predict Depression Symptom Improvement.”
   IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2024.

Satellite-Based QKD

1. Md Zakir Hossain, N. K. Panigrahy, W. O. Krawec, D. Towsley, and B. Wang.
   “Resource-Aware Routing for Satellite-Based Quantum Key Distribution with Inter-Satellite Links”
   Work in Progress.

2. Md Zakir Hossain, N. K. Panigrahy, W. O. Krawec, D. Towsley, and B. Wang.
   “Opportunistic Scheduling for Single-downlink Satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution.”
   Under Review.

3. M. J. Bae, N. K. Panigrahy, P. Dhara, Md Zakir Hossain, W. O. Krawec, A. Russell, D. Towsley, and B. Wang.
   “Blockwise Post-processing in Satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution.”
   IEEE Network, 2025.

4. S. Oslovich, Md Zakir Hossain, T. Thomas, B. Wang, W. O. Krawec, and K. Goodenough.
   “Efficient Quantum Conference Key Agreement over Quantum Networks.”
   IEEE Quantum Communications and Networking Conference (QCNC), 2025.

5. O. Amer, W. O. Krawec, Md Zakir Hossain, V. U. Manfredi, and B. Wang.
   “Dynamic Routing and Post-processing Strategies for Hybrid Quantum Key Distribution Networks.”
   IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2024.

6. R. Maule, N. K. Panigrahy, N. L. Anipeddi, P. Dhara, D. Kilbane, Md Zakir Hossain, W. O. Krawec, D. Towsley, and B. Wang.
   “Fair and Efficient Scheduling Strategies for Satellite Assisted Quantum Key Distribution Systems.”
   IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2024.

Earlier Research

1. M. M. Sarker, M. J. Islam, and Md Zakir Hossain.
   “A Clustering Based Niching Method for Effectively Solving the 0-1 Knapsack Problem.”
   International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Emerging Technologies, 2022.

2. M. M. Hasan, M. A. Kashem, M. J. Islam, and Md Zakir Hossain.
   “A Time-varying Mutation Operator for Balancing the Exploration and Exploitation Behaviours of Genetic Algorithm.”
   3rd International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE), 2021.

3. M. Begum, B. C. Das, Md Zakir Hossain, A. Saha, and K. A. Pappy.
   “An Improved Kohonen Self-organizing Map Clustering Algorithm for High-dimensional Data Sets.”
   Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2021.

4. Md Zakir Hossain, M. J. Islam, M. W. R. Miah, J. H. Rony, and M. Begum.
   “Develop a Dynamic DBSCAN Algorithm for Solving Initial Parameter Selection Problem of the DBSCAN Algorithm.”
   Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2021.

5. T. R. Shaha, M. N. Akhtar, F. T. Johora, Md Zakir Hossain, M. Rahman, and R. B. Ahmad.
   “A Noble Approach to Develop Dynamically Scalable NameNode in Hadoop Distributed File System Using Secondary Storage.”
   Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019.

6. Md Zakir Hossain, M. N. Akhtar, R. B. Ahmad, and M. Rahman.
   “A Dynamic K-Means Clustering for Data Mining.”
   Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019.