Tomal Hossain
Thomas J Watson Fellow
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTomal Hossain is a multidisciplinary vocalist, composer, and researcher with 11 years of experience blending Hindustani music, ethnomusicology, and software development. As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow based in Amherst, he has conducted in-depth field research on sacred sound and the role of the arts across eight Muslim-majority countries, pairing ethnographic insight with creative practice. He composes and arranges primarily for voices while also building musical and web applications, reflecting a rare combination of artistic sensitivity and technical fluency. Past roles span Rails development, web migrations, live sound engineering, and real-time language interpretation, showing adaptability across studio, concert, and technical environments. Known for interdisciplinary collaboration, he brings scholarly rigor to creative projects and practical engineering skills to music-focused tools.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Music, Computer Science, and Ethnomusicology, 3.8, Bachelor's Degree, Music, Computer Science, and Ethnomusicology, 3.8 at Amherst CollegeHigh School, High School at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet HSSingle semester of study abroad, Music, 3.9, Single semester of study abroad, Music, 3.9 at IES Abroad
English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, German, Arabic
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Github Skills (3)
heroku6
ruby-on-rails6
rake6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tomalhossain/voice-gender-classification
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
tomalhossain/shortest-paths
Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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