Hossain Md Shakhawat is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of the American International University of Bangladesh. His research focuses on using machine learning and whole slide images to gain insight into the treatment of cancer patients. He is particularly interested in designing and developing systems for assisting pathologists in the diagnosis and prognosis of patients. He has developed a decision support system for breast cancer patients during his postdoctoral research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), USA. Recently, his work is focused on unraveling the role of the HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) gene in the growth of different cancers such as breast, colon, and gastric. He also worked with Tokyo Institute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in USA for his doctoral research.