Biography

Hamid D. Ismail, DVM, Ph.D. received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, USA, and holds a DVM and B.Sc. from the University of Khartoum. He possesses several professional certifications, including SAS Certified Base Programmer, SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer, and SQL Expert Programmer. Dr. Ismail is a multidisciplinary expert whose background spans computational science, bioinformatics, biology, statistics, and machine learning.

He currently serves as the Research High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center Administrator and Lecturer in the Department of Computational Data Science and Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Michigan Technological University (KC Lab) , where he developed computational pipelines for SARS-CoV-2 genome surveillance, Tick Talk Monitoring (a tick-borne pathogen genome surveillance program) and contributed as a collaborator with the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). Earlier in his career, Dr. Ismail served as a Research Associate in the Department of Animal Sciences (Biotechnology and Molecular Laboratory) at North Carolina A&T State University.

Dr. Ismail teaches graduate-level courses including Programming for Scalable Computing Systems, Bioinformatics, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Computational Modeling. His research spans several core areas in bioinformatics and computational biology, including:

• Bioinformatics Algorithms – Development of computational methods to analyze and interpret biological data.
• Machine Learning in Genomics – Application of machine learning techniques to genomic data, including the prediction of post-translational modifications.
• Genomic Data Science – Design and implementation of bioinformatics tools for analyzing complex genomic datasets.
• Biomedical Applications – Active research in autoimmune diseases, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on uncovering molecular mechanisms, genetic risk factors, and potential therapeutic targets.

Dr. Ismail is the author of influential textbooks in bioinformatics and an active peer reviewer for multiple scientific journals.